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    Default Re: Tonight I add salt to my non SWG above ground pool

    It took about 20 minutes to half an hour for my wife and I to dissolve two 40# bags. She had fun playing with the pellets, piling them up, moving them around with her feet, etc. The biggest thing was that we essentially were in the pool to help stir up the water. I'd recommend helping the salt dissolve.

    What I did was take a bag and open it in the middle of the pool, and spread it around a bit from the middle. We then shuffled it around with our feet until it was pretty much dissolved.

    1200ppm is about where we want to get to, so adding two bags will probably be perfect for your pool. If you aren't sure, then just get one bag and start with that. You can always add another later, but if you are happy with the results of just one bag, then there is no need. I did the same thing, I started with two bags, knowing that three or four would be what I ultimately will want to add. Two is nice, but I'll be adding one more sometime this week, and maybe one more after that.

    Just remember though that like CYA, the only way to get the salt back out of your pool is to drain and refill, so it's better to use less than you think you need than to overshoot your goal.

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    Default Re: Tonight I add salt to my non SWG above ground pool

    I hope this is not too geekey.
    The salinity of tears is around 9000 ppm dependant on body hydration. Body salinity is around 9000 ppm or isotonic at 0.9%. The ocean is around 0.35 % or 35000 ppm dependent on depth and temperature. Most salt used on the roads is Calcium Chloride witch is more corrosive than Sodium Chloride.
    The reason cars and boats have more problems are higher concretions and other metals involved.
    The reason it fells better is osmosis. Water is constantly trying to balance itself. You have less osmotic pressure at higher concretions of salt in your pool. Less water in to the skin means less flaking and itching. Think of it this way, you have a dead layer of skin at the surface the epidermis, as water enters these cells they swell and burst , when you get out of the pool these busted cells dry quickly, and cause itching and flaking. In salted water these cells have longer before they burst. The higher the salt levels to isotonic the less damage to the cell membrane.
    I haven’t salted my pool yet but I do plan to as I learn the BBB chem. method better.
    Later
    Steve

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    Default Re: Tonight I add salt to my non SWG above ground pool

    Medvampire I would say you aren't being geeky enough. Shouldn't seawater be 3.5% not .35% by your own calculations?
    22,000 gal gunite pool, 1.5 hp pump, DE filter, and dreams of a SWG.

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    Default Re: Tonight I add salt to my non SWG above ground pool

    Shouldn't seawater be 3.5% not .35% by your own calculations
    Opps, Finger slipped, hate it when that happens.

    and dreams of a SWG
    Me too!

    Steve
    Last edited by medvampire; 06-26-2006 at 11:34 PM.

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    Default Re: Tonight I add salt to my non SWG above ground pool

    If there's one thing I've learned from this site...it's that you measure and treat the problem you have. You don't just take stabs at what the problem may be...or toss a coin in a general direction in hopes that things will turn out grand.

    Could this be another case where measurements would be the best bet...to see both where we're starting from...and our target range.

    just wondering???

    dan

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