Adding salt for the season

[jilted]

To get back to the SWCG's recommended level.

This year I bought 10 bags from Lowes. Diamond Crystal brand premium pool salt.
http://www.lowes.com/pd_241333-113-8...d=10151&rpp=24
It's bigger crystal type salt versus the previous salt I bought that was very fine. Is this good/bad/indifferent? I usually put in 1 bag at a time and use the brush to move it around until it dissolves. It takes much longer to dissolve with this brand. Is it mandatory to get it all dissolved?

Thanks,
-stephen

[Goolsbymd]

That is actually what I use in my SWG. However I brush and brush some more till it is all dissolved because the ppm will increase until all of it is dissolved. I also do not like any chemicals sitting on the floor of my liner, high concentrations of anything is not good. Sometimes I'll throw some salt in a sock or if I'm feeling frisky I'll add the salt to my Polaris debris collector bag and get it spread it that way just don't over load it to much.

[jilted]

Thanks. That's what I was thinking also that it might not be good to have a pile of it just sitting on the bottom.

[waterbear]

Even the bigger crystals will dissolve fast. I use water softener solar salt which is a very large crystal and it dissolves almost as fast as fine grained pool salt, is often purer than some of the 'pool salt' I have seen, and costs less. If you spread it out instead of having it all in one place it will dissolve faster and keeping the pump running 24/7 until is it dissolved helps also. Salt sitting on the liner should not have any ill effects. In fact, I just get n the pool and push the stuff around with my feet when I add salt. Brushing is fine but not really necessary. POP (Pool owner patience) is more important!

[Goolsbymd]

Even the bigger crystals will dissolve fast. I use water softener solar salt which is a very large crystal and it dissolves almost as fast as fine grained pool salt, is often purer than some of the 'pool salt' I have seen, and costs less. If you spread it out instead of having it all in one place it will dissolve faster and keeping the pump running 24/7 until is it dissolved helps also. Salt sitting on the liner should not have any ill effects. In fact, I just get n the pool and push the stuff around with my feet when I add salt. Brushing is fine but not really necessary. POP (Pool owner patience) is more important!

If the salt has the same effects as my wifes salt foot/body rub, then I don't wanna kick it around might clog up a skimmer

[waterbear]

If the salt has the same effects as my wifes salt foot/body rub, then I don't wanna kick it around might clog up a skimmer

It won't, trust me! Your wife's salt body rub is probably rock salt, a less pure product, and probably also contains ingredients besides salt. I know of at least one SWCG manufacturer that recommends brushing salt to the man drain when adding it.