Salt Water Pool?

[campingfam]

This sounds interesting. I need to consider it for our underground pool. sounds like it would make maintenance much easier.

 

[CampingBandit]

Salt water pools add about 1500.00 to a family sized pool. Not to bad when you only need to add salt sometimes. As far as chemicals go skip the rip off pool stores and go to the discount store and buy all the supplies you might need there. Some bleach, soda ash and something else I forgot. The only thing I've had to do was put some bleach in. If you stay away from the pool stores it's alot easier and a whole lot cheaper.

You must know about TroubleFreePool or Pool Forum?

BBB: Bleach, Borax and Baking Soda.

 

[tlenzendorf]

If its going to be a salt pool, wouldn't tequila make more sense than scotch? Somebody pass the lemon wedges

 

[AuburnJen92]

Isn't there a point where there is enough scotch and tequila and you just don't care anymore what kind of pool it is?

 

[DaveInTN]

If its going to be a salt pool, wouldn't tequila make more sense than scotch? Somebody pass the lemon wedges

You're right...and I stand corrected! Forget the scotch, and let me introduce you to Fort Wilderness' new pool boy....Jose Cuervo!

 

[ftwildernessguy]

You're right...and I stand corrected! Forget the scotch, and let me introduce you to Fort Wilderness' new pool boy....Jose Cuervo!

Jose Cuervo - he is a friend of mine.

You know him too?

 

[des1954]

Jose Cuervo - he is a friend of mine.

You know him too?

The cuervo gold
The fine columbian
Make tonight a wonderful thing

 

[3gr8kids]

I think I've been intimate with Jose

but I don't really remember..........

 

[2goofycampers]

When he's gone he tends to leave a headache behind.

 

[tlenzendorf]

Jose Cuervo - he is a friend of mine.

You know him too?

I met him Saturday night. He wasn't very nice to me

 

[DaveInTN]

I love this board! A simple question about whether the pool is salt water, and out of 30 posts 14 of them are about alcohol!

And BTW, Jose was kind of mean to me on Saturday night as well. Just getting over that today.

OK, make that 15 out of 31 posts...

 

[BRDof3]

I love this board! A simple question about whether the pool is salt water, and out of 30 posts 14 of them are about alcohol!

And BTW, Jose was kind of mean to me on Saturday night as well. Just getting over that today.

OK, make that 15 out of 31 posts...

You expect anything less? We're the best at hijacking threads at bottle-point.

 

[tlenzendorf]

I love this board! A simple question about whether the pool is salt water, and out of 30 posts 14 of them are about alcohol!

And BTW, Jose was kind of mean to me on Saturday night as well. Just getting over that today.

OK, make that 15 out of 31 posts...

Wow, that was long travels for him all the way from WI to TN(or reverse)! I wonder if he borrowed Juan Valdez' donkey for the trip. ******* should have brought me some coffee if he did...

I'm blaming the heat wave we had for how ill I ended up being Saturday night(aka Sunday morning). Yeah, the heat

 

[DisneyRose&Boys]

I much prefer the feel, taste, and smell of chlorine to that "other" stuff. Just my $.02.

And Joe C. and I never EVER see eye-to-eye...
Ever.

Ever.



Rose

 

[♥Ariel♥]

Saltwater...ewww...I wouldn't set foot in the pool if that's the way it was.

Like most "public" pools, it seems to have a higher chlorine content than the average home pool. If you've ever been in a busy pool you'll understand. Nothing out of the ordinary and not a problem for the hour I spent in it with my son.

Scott

no not like ocean saltwater pools. we have a salt water pool and it is just a subsitute for chlorine and it smells better and it does not burn your eyes but it is just as effective.

 

[Escape Artist]

According to the pool repair guys around here, apparently salt pools have lower maintence costs for the first couple of years, but wear and tear on the equipment happens a lot faster with salt. My pool guy said "5 year old equipment looks 10 years old in a salt pool" and they have problems with the salt etching into the stone around the pools. Some of the pool builders I talked to last year used to build salt pools but won't anymore because of it. One of them will only build you a salt pool if you sign away your warranty.

Maybe Disney wants to make their equipment last longer? I was told that if I plan to keep the house longer than 5-10 years, get a chlorine pool, or be prepared for more maintenance costs.

I also read that if you have that public-pool chlorine smell, it's because the chlorine was acting against, um, public pool contaminates, which I really don't want to think about swimming in! But I'm sure the person back on page 1 who understands FC and CC can communicate that better than me!

Sue in Texas
...whose pool, with our heat wave, was 92 degrees last week!