Any experiences with constructing a salt water swimming pool?… and the specific differences/details vs more conventional chlorine pools? DouglasP - 10-2-2022 at 09:14 AM
Any experiences with constructing a salt water swimming pool?… and the specific differences/details vs more conventional chlorine pools?
We have a "salt" pool in Idaho. It isn't a salt water pool in the sense that the water is like sea water. The water is about 3,000 ppm salt
concentration, sea water is approximately 35,000 ppm,
The elevated salt content in the pool is needed to generate chlorine. A chemical reaction between the salt, titanium plates and an electrical charge
makes chlorine in the chlorine generator. You don't buy or add chlorine, you make it.
Short answer, no, the construction is no different. The equipment is.
If you're talking a sea water pool, I just wasted a lot of band width. RFClark - 10-2-2022 at 09:39 AM
Hi,
Depending on the salt content you’ll need salt resistant plumbing, fixtures and perhaps the concrete itself, if it's a concrete pool. A fiberglass
pool is easer to convert for several reasons. mtgoat666 - 10-2-2022 at 10:06 AM
I have had both salt water and conventional. The salt water is beneficial in that the chlorination is automated, when the chlorine generator is
working. The drawback is that the salt water generators tend to need to be replaced every few years.
I prefer the conventional, with a weekly pool service to do chemicals.El Jefe - 10-2-2022 at 02:11 PM
We did a salt pool at first. It was nice for a while, then the hard water we get delivered calcified on the on the chlorine generator parts and I had
to soak it in acid. That was a real pain. It just got worse and worse until I finally gave up on it and went with regular old dependable chlorine
tabs. And if you can get a pool guy to come out and maintain your pool, even better! They know the chemistry.pacificobob - 10-3-2022 at 05:46 AM
I had salt...got bored replacing the chlorine generator...now back to conventional G-Man - 10-4-2022 at 07:35 AM
Other then stainless steel pool hardware and chlorine generator…
What needs to be specific regarding the pool concrete?Bob and Susan - 10-4-2022 at 11:08 AM
pool plaster....its dense...
you'll need to import it
