Newbie POOL person here...

[Bleach=Chlorine?]

Mike,
If your building a pool and spending upwards of $30K then look into SWGs!!!! They produce chlorine from the salt (you add) to the pool. Safe, maintains constant Cl levels once you have everything adjusted and will not add CYA like pucks/floaters. If our pool season was longer than 3 months and if I did not have to burn $$$ this season on new pool motor I would get one!! Search posts for SWG and read up!!!

[Pool_Mike]

A buddy here at work has SWG. Says nothing but good things about it.

When I talked to 1 out of the 2 contractors they said if I was to put SWG they will not warrenty the life time of the pool b/c it eats the plasture and that if I was to do limerock edgeing that the salt from it can cause to splash on the rock (where its dry/edge) that it will eat it up.

The other builder says that the chlorine pools is cheaper then SWG and would ONLY recommend SWG if anyone in my family has allergic reaction to chlorine.

Any takers? Myth?

[31Coupe]

We got our first pool last year this time. We went for the Salt Water generator. We have a 18X33 above ground 15,000 gal. pool with a Gold Line SWG. It works great! No Clorine to add unless you have a problem. We are hooked and just got our neighbors to switch over also. You still need to keep a check on your chemical ballence but for us it is very easy.
31 Coupe