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Originally Posted by waterbear
Aha! So soft water doesn't have high salinity. It has low hardness (low calcium and magnesium). I guess now I finally realize why it is called soft water.
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Originally Posted by waterbear
Aha! So soft water doesn't have high salinity. It has low hardness (low calcium and magnesium). I guess now I finally realize why it is called soft water.
Same reason we add bath salts to the bath... while it does not actually soften the water, it makes the water feel good!Quote:
Originally Posted by waterbear
Grace
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but alas, no pool... yet!
I put a few bags in our pool mid - season last year and did not tell the wife I had done it. The very first time she went in she commented on how nice the water felt.
This summer we topped up the salt to 2800 ppm and put in the SWG system.
The only negative we've seen so far is that water that gets on top of the *&^%%$$ solar cover and evaporates, leaves a bit of white powered. A few minutes of hosing or a rainfall clears it.
Even at the levels this year that are much higher than we had last year, I still prefer it to straight fresh water.
I want to do this because my wife has been complaining that her skin feels dry since I have started using BBB. Because I have >120 ppm CYA, I maintain a high chlorine level following the Best Guess chart.
Before adding salt, I wanted to know what my starting point was, so I bought the Taylor Salt Water Test Kit (K-1766). It shows that my water is already at 1,000 ppm salt content. That seemed high, so I called them. They confirmed that the kit was O.K. (the test sample didn't act like I thought it should when adding the reagents) and said that since I have been adding so much chlorine it was probable that the chlorine was the sorce of my salt. Incidentally, I was very impressed by Taylor's telephone support. I talked with a very compentent individual and experienced no waiting.
Anyway, after reading Poolsean's post (#56), I'm going to shoot for 3,000 ppm in my non-SWG pool. Can't wait to be a hero to my wife.
Can you say Bloody Mary? :eek: That's the first thing that came to my mind after I did the first test. My salt was around 800 ppm when I tested before adding salt and I've used mainly bleach for a few years. I'm now down to around 3200 ppm (from 3400 ppm) and love it. The kids, and a few other adults say they can taste it slightly but I only get a hint after first jumping in.Quote:
Originally Posted by cheshamjim
Good luck and make a fun time of it spreading the crystals/pellets around.
Dave
P.S-If you have a vinyl pool, I'd recommend the pellets as there are no sharp corners.
"Can you say Bloody Mary? :eek: That's the first thing that came to my mind after I did the first test."
My test sample looked more like like cream of tomato soup ...
Question - I have long since stopped reading this thread since it is so long. Is it still on topic and productive? It is getting ridiculously long. How about if we stop this one and lock it and start a new thread if there is a need. This one is way longer than we like threads to be. I'll wait a day or two for loose ends to be wrapped up in this thread.
Thanks.
Watermom
I started on in the China Shop. If you want to lock this thread.
Steve
I think that this may be one instance where the long thread is actually not a bad idea. It is still on topic and a wealth of information. There is another thread about this in the China Shop though, so I guess it's up to the mods if you want to keep this one around.Quote:
Originally Posted by Watermom
There are still discussions here with questions being asked and answered, so closing it might cut those discussions short.
I thought this was already closed and was bummed because I found it very interesting and was hoping to learn more! I had a question and posted it in the other thread that was started as a continuation of this one, but I'd like to repeat it here in case this thread has any followers who aren't reading the other.
I would love to add salt to my pool and am wondering if anyone knows of any reasons it shouldn't be added to an Intex inflatable ring pool.
Thanks! Amy
I can think of no reasons not to add salt to your Intex pool, especially at the low levels that we have been discussing in this thread. :)
Well, I have to try this, I understand that most concerns lie with corrosion, especially the bottom track, let me assure you that the NaCl levels in that track will NEVER reach a high amount such as 35000ppm where it may start to cause a problem unless your pool sits in the middle of the Sahara desert, sure, over the course of the weekend, it may build up a little bit, but the first rain storm will wash 90 % of that salt away.
I won't even worry about any of that since my pool is composed entirely of resin except for the wall and that's so coated you could probably immerse it in 999999 ppm salt and still not have much of an effect on it. As I understand it, most want to get to 1200- 1500 ppm salt, in this case, I'm looking at 250-300lbs of salt which is nuts, so I will be doing this over a loooong period of time.
Oh, also, WRT corrosion, I think everyone who is so concerned should probably be more worried about the alkalinity in the soil that their pool sits on since it will likely be the leading cause of the bottom rail rotting out.
We did this about 3 weeks ago and the water does feel better. We have pretty hard water in the DFW area, so it really depends on your water quality if you want to do it. I only put 80# in, but it has a very slight salt taste and I don't feel like I need to jump in the shower right after a swim.
The guys at Leslies are mostly clueless based on some of the posts in another thread about the way they test for CYA!