Tonight I add salt to my non SWG above ground pool

[Watermom]

Question - I have long since stopped reading this thread since it is so long. Is it still on topic and productive? It is getting ridiculously long. How about if we stop this one and lock it and start a new thread if there is a need. This one is way longer than we like threads to be. I'll wait a day or two for loose ends to be wrapped up in this thread.

Thanks.

[medvampire]

Watermom
I started on in the China Shop. If you want to lock this thread.
Steve

[The Raddish]

Question - I have long since stopped reading this thread since it is so long. Is it still on topic and productive? It is getting ridiculously long. How about if we stop this one and lock it and start a new thread if there is a need. This one is way longer than we like threads to be. I'll wait a day or two for loose ends to be wrapped up in this thread.

Thanks.

I think that this may be one instance where the long thread is actually not a bad idea. It is still on topic and a wealth of information. There is another thread about this in the China Shop though, so I guess it's up to the mods if you want to keep this one around.

There are still discussions here with questions being asked and answered, so closing it might cut those discussions short.

[amyinraleigh]

I thought this was already closed and was bummed because I found it very interesting and was hoping to learn more! I had a question and posted it in the other thread that was started as a continuation of this one, but I'd like to repeat it here in case this thread has any followers who aren't reading the other.

I would love to add salt to my pool and am wondering if anyone knows of any reasons it shouldn't be added to an Intex inflatable ring pool.

Thanks! Amy

[The Raddish]

I can think of no reasons not to add salt to your Intex pool, especially at the low levels that we have been discussing in this thread.

[matt4x4]

Well, I have to try this, I understand that most concerns lie with corrosion, especially the bottom track, let me assure you that the NaCl levels in that track will NEVER reach a high amount such as 35000ppm where it may start to cause a problem unless your pool sits in the middle of the Sahara desert, sure, over the course of the weekend, it may build up a little bit, but the first rain storm will wash 90 % of that salt away.
I won't even worry about any of that since my pool is composed entirely of resin except for the wall and that's so coated you could probably immerse it in 999999 ppm salt and still not have much of an effect on it. As I understand it, most want to get to 1200- 1500 ppm salt, in this case, I'm looking at 250-300lbs of salt which is nuts, so I will be doing this over a loooong period of time.
Oh, also, WRT corrosion, I think everyone who is so concerned should probably be more worried about the alkalinity in the soil that their pool sits on since it will likely be the leading cause of the bottom rail rotting out.

[waterbear]

The guys at Leslies are mostly clueless based on some of the posts in another thread about the way they test for CYA!