Can you taste and feel SWG treated water?

[Rangeball]

I have between 11-1200 ppm of salt in my pool. I can't taste salt. But the water feels fantastic. Really crisp and clean, like swimming in bottle of Aquafina I know what you mean by the slimey feel of soft water. I hate taking soft water showers, I never feel like I can get rinsed. However my pool water is entirely different, just refreshing and very clean feeling.

I don't have a SWG.

I like to look at my pool at least once per day at a minimum. I buy a case of bleach at a time, and every night at dark I clean my skimmer basket, check my filter pressure and give everything a once over, and add one .75 gal bottle of 6% bleach. Whole process takes maybe 3 minutes.

[waterbear]

I know what you mean by the slimey feel of soft water. I hate taking soft water showers, I never feel like I can get rinsed. However my pool water is entirely different, just refreshing and very clean feeling.

The big difference here is that you are not using soap in your swimming pool! Anyway adding salt to the pool water will not make it 'softer'. If you have a plaster pool your calcium hardness should be between 200-400 ppm and that is NOT soft water. Salt won't change this. If you are using soft water in your pool (vinyl or fiberglass) then adding salt will not have any effect on the hardness of the water either. Soft water and saline water are not the same thing! The biggest difference is that the saltwater is closer to the body's own isoelectric point and therefore is more 'comfortable'

[Tredge]

I've had lots of comments from friends and relatives about my "Soft pool". Some of them didnt even know I added salt...they just noticed a difference in the feel.

My Brother swam in a non-salt pool daily and when he tried my pool he was amazed at the difference.

If they could taste the salt in the water it was very hard to tell.

Oh...and you float better in a SWG pool

[pj1016]

I grew up in a house that had a soft water system, so I know that slick feeling of not ever feeling fully rinsed.

SWG is nothing like that...I was genuinely shocked and pleased when I jumped in my pool after going to SWG...the feel of the water is incredible.

My salt level is kept around 3200...I can barely taste it.

HTH,

pj

[aquarium]

Could I just add salt to the pool to get the same effect on the feel of the water as a SWG? According to the BleachCalc I would add 125 pounds to a 15,000 gallon pool to get to 1000ppm salt. Maybe start with half that in case we just don't like it?

[Rangeball]

That's pretty much what I did. 1100ish ppm of salt with no SWG.

The only thing the SWG adds to the mix is creating chlorine in the cell.

[smallpooldad]

Have to agree with Rangebell. Have about 1400 ppm salt in pool using liquid chlorine. No more eyes stinging, no more sticky feeling when I get out the pool. Plus I tell all my snooty lawyer associates that I to have a saltwater pool.

It takes a a good amount of explaining to them that due to the water chemistry it is not like swimming in the ocean, as told by their salesperson. Watching their reaction is a lot of fun as they see how they can litigate their salesperson for misrepresentation.

[gwrace1]

Shop around. We bought a new Aquarite on Ebay for $450.00. No chasing bleach prices for this guy and we can go on vacation and not worry about pool chlorination.

[semenzato]

I have a salt water pool (about 3000ppm) and can definitely tell it's not
plain drinking water. I also added borax as a ph stabilizer, but it's a
relatively small amount (one box I think) so I think it's the salt I am
tasting.

But then again I don't drink pool water. There is no
issue with the little water that goes in the mouth or the nose.
It's barely salty. I don't see why the taste should be a concern.

Since I added the SWG, I haven't seen even any hint of eye
reddening in any of the children and adults who have used
the pool, no matter how long. Previously it happened when
I underchlorinated it and when it needed shocking. For me,
the benefits of the SWG far outweigh the change in water
flavor.

Luigi