Pool cleaner material breaking down - chemical attack?

[buffoon1]

Hi all

Please see attached photo of my Zodiac pacer with a fairly recently-purchased flexible disc that is softening and disintegrating from what I assume is a chemical reaction with something in the water. Same thing happened with the previous disc.

Has anyone had this happen, and know the cause? Am I simply over-chlorinating? (It's a conventional pool; not salt.) Using a pool cover almost year-round for the last few years, I have struggled to gauge the right amount of HTH to put in, in the absence of much solar radiation to break it down.

Thanks for any input.

 

[Hemi300c]

Yip too much chemicals and I suggest you get the mixtures right or your pipes will be next as happened to me some years ago.

 

[skeptic_SA]

Do you have a lot of "adult friends" over for pool parties when the kids are away at camp?

 

[bwana]

Have you had your water tested?

 

[RedViking]

Imagine what it does to your skin? Just get the water tested by pool experts.

 

[touch_stone]

Check your water for calcium hardness. Do you have a marble plaster or fibreglass pool?

If the former then your walls should also be scaling (being eaten away).

 

[Compton_effect]

2 things.
Drain the pool and replace your water. Its saturated.
And then have the water regularly tested at a pool shop. Don't just estimate.

 

[buffoon1]

Many thanks everyone!

I'm getting experts in next weekend for a couple of things so will run it by them, get testing done and save what I can.

I grew up with no pool covers and cutting out that radiation has made my sort-of-OK estimates become a huge liability. Live and learn...

No adult parties no heheh (no kids either). You might have to help me with the reference... alcohol? KY? Never seemed corrosive to me... :-D

 

[TedLasso]

Many thanks everyone!

I'm getting experts in next weekend for a couple of things so will run it by them, get testing done and save what I can.

I grew up with no pool covers and cutting out that radiation has made my sort-of-OK estimates become a huge liability. Live and learn...

No adult parties no heheh (no kids either). You might have to help me with the reference... alcohol? KY? Never seemed corrosive to me... :-D

But, surely your pool maintenance routine would have you checking the PH levels,etc which would have alerted you that something was off?

Fairly new to pool maintenance myself, and have a cover too and I have only been using those HTH sticks that check everything. 99 bucks a tube. I know the purists don't like them , but works perfectly for me, and never had an issue with pool - even when pump was forced to be off for a whole month in Jan this year, it only got cloudy in week 5. With the cover on , I never have to put in chlorine regularly. Whereas it normally is about 5-6 scoops a week (100k liter pool) when cover is off, I may need to do that every 2 months!

Recommend those HTH sticks if you have never used them before. Works for me