Re: SWCG vs BBB
I love the SWCG. When I go into our local pool store -- to buy salt or acid, usually -- I see people toting those 2.5 gallon containers of chlorine to their car, and I think to myself how glad I am that I don't have to fuss with liquid chlorine. I'll buy the salt when it's on sale, and enough of it to last many weeks (despite all the splash-out my pool gets). We're about to go away for 10 days; I don't give it a second thought that my pool will be okay, provided that I don't suffer an equipment failure.
The best thing I've learned about the BBB method is to not trust the pool stores, and to do your own water testing with a good Taylor K-2006 kit. This past weekend, I went to both pool stores near my house (one for salt, the other for cheaper acid). While there, I let them test my pool water (mostly to ensure an independent verification of my pool conditions should I have a warranty issue arise). One pool company said my TA was too low; add baking powder. The other said my TA was too high; add acid. My own readings pointed told me my TA was a little low, and it definitely wasn't too high. That happens nearly every time I compare the two pool stores -- they differ wildly on one or more chemical readings.
I know myself, and I know that it is too easy for me to forget to add chlorine when it needs to be added. For years, I had an Intex-style pool, and about the middle of the summer, it would turn green because I'd neglected the chlorine. With the SWCG, algae has just never been an issue at all. And the pool *always* has a level amount of chlorine. And because I never shock the pool -- it never needs it, because the CC is always non-existent or very, very low -- the pool is *always* ready for use.
I'd never want a non-SWCG pool now that I've got one.
South Florida - 16,000g Diamond Brite pool, 700g spa & waterfall, Jandy 1400 AquaPure SWCG, Jandy variable-speed 1.5H pump, Jandy 60 DE filter, Jandy heat pump - using Taylor K-2006 kit
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