Salt water in ground pool
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I have an above ground like any good redneck. But the concept is the same. The salt water system is great. I add maybe a bag or two of salt a year. You still have to test the water obviously and adjust other levels like always but for the clorine you just adjust how many hours a day the unit runs.
Had our in ground for 5 years now. After having a regular pool in Fla......like the man said....this is tits! Just got the solar on the roof of the pool house to keep it open longer.
One tip.....no steal deck furniture.
One tip.....no steal deck furniture.
It is a small piece in the plumbing about a foot and a half long, it is a chlorine generator converts salt to Chlorine, that's it.
The salt level in the water is minimal, shouldn't affect much but the water will be way softer
The salt level in the water is minimal, shouldn't affect much but the water will be way softer
Saline pools actually have less salt than human tears. I had one at my old house and loved it. The down side is you need to run the filter for more hours than a chlorine pool because the chlorine generator is inline with the pump. The upside is you can dump water softener salt or table salt into the pool to help raise the chlorine content. Swimsuits last longer, you don't get red eyes and pool toys don't become brittle as fast.
Chlorine pool costs less (cost of running the pump) plus I had to change out the stainless filter canister and pump since salt water pits stainless. I used liquid chlorine vs tablets before the conversion. The binder in the tablets builds up in the water, causing them to be less effective. You'll have to use other chemicals (shock, clarifier) and drain part of the water to keep it chlorinated right. $25/mo in chemicals plus $75 to run the filter vs maybe $10 in chemicals and $175/mo in electric for the saline.
Chlorine pool costs less (cost of running the pump) plus I had to change out the stainless filter canister and pump since salt water pits stainless. I used liquid chlorine vs tablets before the conversion. The binder in the tablets builds up in the water, causing them to be less effective. You'll have to use other chemicals (shock, clarifier) and drain part of the water to keep it chlorinated right. $25/mo in chemicals plus $75 to run the filter vs maybe $10 in chemicals and $175/mo in electric for the saline.
Do you have an Olympic size pool? $175/mo is insane. My entire power bill which includes running the central A/C, water heater, and well pump. Rarely even hits $150/mo. and that's on the really hot months. Granted our pool is only around 7,000 gallons but I don't even notice an increase the bill when the pool is open. I run the salt water unit for 3-4 hrs per day. At most it draws 2 amps. So that's less than $0.10/day.
I live in Arizona. Your rates may vary. I had a sports pool, ~7000 gallons. I'd run the pump for 4 hours while on Chlorine and almost 12 hours on Saline in the summer. My house electric bill was $375 to $500 including the pool. (HVAC and water heater all electric).
My current apartment was $121 last month for electricity.
Yeah, APS fucks us hard.
If you need to drain the pool where can you put the water? If an oil man drops salt water on the ground there will be hell to pay.
It's not that high of a concentration of salt. I lived in an HOA who enforced teh city policy of no run-off in the storm drains. I drained the completely once when I lived there and I built an adapter to put on the sanitary sewer (legal in my city) to drain the pool. Back washes I dumped out to the gravel on the side of the house.
http://www.csgnetwork.com/poolsalinitycalc.html
The average ocean and sea water salinity is 35PPT, also known as 3.5%
The Red Sea is the saltiest at 4.25%
The Baltic Sea is the least salty at .7%
The Great Salt Lake in Utah varies in locations from 11 to 33%
The Dead Sea (really a lake) varies from 26 to 35%
The Salton Sea in southern California is 4.5% on average
Fresh water is less than 1PPT
Brackish water is 1 to 25PPT
Hypersaline water is greater than 40PPT
Human tears are 9PPT
Current saline swimming pool systems are 2800 to 4000PPM
Older saline swimming pools and therapeutic systems are 3500 to 6500PPM