Looking for chlorine alternatives . . .

[PoolDoc]

Hi Christina;

I gotta grin about your post

How in the world did you end up here? We're sort of the king of the "use chlorine, not all those bogus, faux 'green', worthless products"!

Usually, when we get questions like yours, I try to explain why all the alternatives are bogus, and how the deceptive marketing of the "let's cash in on the dumb consumers who want to go all green" greedster crowd bamboozles gullible MSM reporters, and rips off naive consumers. But we're getting hammered right now, with people we can help -- I'm not sure why, but internet traffic here has gone through the roof.

Plus, I've found that most of the folks who want "chlorine alternatives" don't really want to hear anything different -- so it wastes their time and mine to try to explain all that.

Here are a couple of things you might find interesting:

1. We have a photo gallery of pools that use natural swamp processes to maintain fairly clear pools. I'd actually love one of those, since I much prefer swimming in streams and the ocean, to pools. A lot of those pools are absolutely gorgeous, and the thread has links to companies selling those designs and gear.

2. A lot of people think of ozone as a "chlorine alternative" -- I'm not sure why; it's more toxic than chlorine -- but anyhow Del Ozone is considerably less bogus than most of the companies selling ozone for pools.

3. Also, PHMB based products have lost market share over the past decade, but are still available. Baquacil was the originator of that system, which is STILL the only true (mostly complete) chlorine alternative pool sanitation system.

4. I can't bring myself to link to any of the UV or copper ('mineral') systems that are promoted as alternative systems: those product lines must have hired all the salesmen from Rats Mouth, Florida (Boca Raton), when all the sleazy tele-marketing companies got shut down in the wake of the Federal Do-Not-Call list.

Good luck!