Salt in a Non-Salt Water pool

[wollypog6]

Sorry ValAZ, forgot to answer your question in my last post. I just dumped all of it in the pool and threw the 2 boys in the pool as well. I jumped in with them and we just kicked the salt around and stirred it up until it was dissolved. I would be carefull to not step on it though if you have a liner pool.

[Karen_in_TN]

Val, we added ours like wollypog6 did. It was cool to use masks and go down and swish it around.

[haze_1956]

Two questions:

What PPM of salt is desirable?

And use as pure a softener salt as I can find ?

[leejp]

I added about 250lbs of water softener salt to an 18X36 inground sports pool. I think I may have gone a little heavy on the salt and wasnt real crazy about the taste, but I am definitely adding "some" salt this year!

Is your pool is similar in size to mine (18x36, 26,000 gal)? According to Bleachcalc/Saltcalc, 250lbs will add ~1154PPM which is from what I can gather is less than 1/2 of what's required (~3000PPM) for a SWG. Yet you say that you weren't too crazy about the taste. Hmmm... is it because the SWG "consumes" the salt that it requires a much higher PPM?

I will do this since my wife/kids have sensitive skin. I think I'll dump ~200lbs in and see if there's any difference before adding the addition 50 though...

[dea7521]

I've heard the threshold for tasting salt in the water is around 3000 PPM. Last year was my first year with the SWG and I kinda over did it in the spring so I ran a little high all year (about 3400 PPM). This year I’m going to try to keep it around 2800 - 2900 and see how it works. Can't tell if it taste any different still a little cold to swim in MI (burrrr), my dogs haven't complained yet.

When I tell people the pool is salt water they automatically assume sea water and the bad experience they had on vacation. It's no where near the same concentration, I think sea water is around 35,000 PPM. The taste last year was noticeable, especially on hot days when the pool temp was high, but definitely worth the benefits. It's almost hard to detect that it's salt you're tasting, I always warn people that the pool is salt water just so they don't assume the worse when the taste it. If you know what I mean
;-)

[sevver]

Well what happens to all of the salt that is in a pool with a SWG? It goes through all of the equiptment to get to the SWG, and not all of the salt is turned into chlorine, so I would disreguard what they tell you, they are obviously imposters.

[topless]

Every time I read a new thread I think I've found another way that I've been had by a pool store. 2 years ago I bought into a product called "Optimizer", that I paid about a $180 to treat my pool. It was supposed to make my water "feel" better and increase the pool's ability to fight off algae. It did feel better, but I've had algae problems every since. Don't tell me I paid $180 for $15 worth of water conditioner salt.