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I've been in salt water pools.  I am not sure of the advantage.

Supposedly less maintenance and a "softer" feel to the water.  I don't personally notice any difference.

Builders/installers around here basically stopped installing saltwater pools because they were tired of getting sued for the breakdown of the coping around the edges, when using natural stones.

Yeah, the amount of chemicals needed to maintain a chlorine pool are significant, which goes away with a saltwater pool. As a homebrewer, we're often worried about getting chlorine *out* of our water, but for chlorine (not chloramine) just letting water sit out in the open air for 24 hours will largely get rid of it. So with pool chemicals, since you WANT it to stay in there you have to constantly test and maintain the levels. 

And I haven't heard that saltwater pools require any compensatory maintenance either by getting rid of chlorine... Because it's salt, it stays in the pool as the water evaporates, so you just have to add water. Maybe every once in a while you need to test salt levels, but it's not the level of maintenance a chlorine pool requires.

Ya but what about the corrosion of salt water on the equipment?Not sure that's cheaper in the long run

Again, I'm not an expert, but it would be absolutely ridiculous if the materials used were prone to corrosion.

I'm guessing that $900 that Badge is talking about isn't about draining the pool and pouring salt and new water in... It's probably retrofitting some of the various equipment so it's not susceptible to corrosion from salt. 

Finally got our first 100 degree day this week.  Gonna be 105 on Sunday.  

Finally got our first 100 degree day this week.  Gonna be 105 on Sunday. 

Expected to hit 93 today. I might have to hook up my new thermostat so I can run the a/c...

...for the puppy, of course. I don't want him to overheat. 

The kids can just deal with it lol.

Sounds like a good investment, I had never looked into it before.

I believe it is true that if a pool smells like chlorine, it does not have enough chlorine in it.  You're smelling the chlorine byproducts at low levels of chloride.  I can't recall the particulars.

That depends on the material to which it is exposed of course.  I'd say in general it is, though it also depends on concentration obviously.

Chlorine in water has some interesting chemistry, as obviously it's not Cl2, it's some combination of HOCl (Clorox) and OCl- and CL2 depending on pH.


https://www.homeadvisor.com/r/saltwater-vs-chlorine-pool/

The saltwater pools have been accused of eating away at natural stone coping around the edge of the pool.  So much so, that regional pool builders down here have been sued so often they pretty much won't build a saltwater pool anymore. 

I bought a house with a chlorine pool, while one of my best friends built a saltwater pool about the same time ~8 years ago, and his natural stone coping is deteriorating pretty badly at this point.  Mine is largely unaffected.

I don't know if it's true or not, but it's widespread enough around here, that pool builders pretty much stoppped doing it, or they ask for extensive waivers when they do agree.