Too much salt?

[Poolsean]

Sorry, my bad. I have one of those DARN sticky keyboards!!! = P

Richard has corrected me...it is 300 ppm per 50lb bag in a 20,000 gallon pool.

You can calculate the approximate pool volume just by the increase in salt level for any pool.

Take your before and after salt levels, but remember to allow enough time for the salt to circulate throughout the pool before taking the "after" salt reading.

Plug in the results:
(3000/salt increase x amount of salt added) / 0.025 = pool volume in gallons

[chris_r11]

Thanks for all the suggestions. I guess I will get a Taylor salt test kit and see how the results come out.

It was a strip he used. he put the water and the test strip in some "device" and then took off for awhile. I was not really paying attention until he said the salt was at 5100 and I should drain half the pool.

Is the taylor k1766 (or something like that) the salt test kit to get?

Thanks!
Chris

[chem geek]

Is the taylor k1766 (or something like that) the salt test kit to get?

Yes, the Taylor K-1766 is the one to get.

[chris_r11]

Well, I received my Taylor kit yesterday and took a salt reading.

It came out to 4400. I remember the person that came out called in to the shop before adding the salt and I overheard him saying that there already was "salt" in the pool (he did a test) and how much should he add. They told him to add all 10, but he told me he stopped at 9 and I could add that one if necessary later.

So, I suppose my pool is somewhat smaller than 20K gallons but I don't know how much salt was in there from the city water and it being balanced.

with a salt level of 4400, should I just let it go through the winter and see if some gets washed out or should I try to correct it now? Who knows, maybe I will have to drain the pool during the downpore or 2 we usually get in January (I was promised an overflow, but they did not install one, but that is another story ).

Chris

[Socal_biker]

Well for 18 yrs I thought my pool was ~18K gallons.

Only this year did I measured the volume of water going in when I filled it last. It was actually ~15K.

[tphaggerty]

Not sure where you live. Here in the northeast, we will probably get between 15 and 20" of precip between now and opening in the spring, so if it was me, I would leave it!

[dawndenise]

My own pool of about 17K gallons is running with 3800-3900 PPM salt right now. It had been up to 4100 after I had a run-in with mustard/yellow algae and had to do mega-chlorinations with bleach, which added to my salt level.

Time, splashouts from my waterfall and a "rain drain" have all combined to reduce my salt level. As long as my system is not flashing "high salt" at me, I'm just leaving it alone.

For my own pool, my initial level of salt in the pool came from the bleach I had been using to manually chlorinate the pool prior to the SWCG becoming operational. I tested my city water and it did not register any salt on my test (PS 234S).