Soft(r) salt?

[waterbear]

I've never heard of solar salt. What else is it used for and where do you buy it(what type of store)? Cost per bag?
Hal

It is water softener salt that is not in pellet or block form but in crystal form and is NOT rock salt, which it too impure to use in a SWG. It will say solar salt on the bag. Both Morton and Diamond Crystal have solar salt. The Diamond Crystal comes in a blue bag. They also have 'Sun Gems' which is a larger crystal solar salt in a yellow bag. I pay about 4 dollars and change for a 40 lb bag (the 80 lb bag is cheaper by pound but hard to lift). You can buy it at hardware stores, grocery stores, Home Depot, Lowes, etc.

[NWMNMom]

We picked up the Morton solar salt for $3.70 for 40# bags last year. It dissolves pretty darn fast. We were some of those that have non SWG pools with salt in them.

[iwannapool]

If you don't have a SWG why do you add salt? Just curious.

[NWMNMom]

We had this seemingly large scale experiment last year regarding the correlation of pool salinity and comfort levels in the pool, skin/hair damage, etc. Surprisingly, we found that there was a noticable difference in all those areas with very negligable or no differences in the other pool chemistry issues (chlorine use, ph issues, etc) There were a lot of numbers posted on exact levels, which I am not qualified to even try to quote, but the end result was that it made the water feel really nice, hair and skin condition were improved over chlorine alone and there were no noticable problems with damage, corrosion or increased chemical needs or cleaning problems.

And I do need to correct my earlier post, the cost was $3.27 #40 bag - we used 3 for our pool and were leaning towards another. Cheap enough I would say for increased comfort. REALLY noticable comfort - especially for my teenagers, who enjoy swimming underwater with eyes open lol

[iwannapool]

So ballpark wise that's about 750 ppm of salt which is 1/4 of what a typical SWG pool has. I guess a little salt does a lot of good.

[NWMNMom]

Thats sounds about right. We really did see the difference so will be doing it again this year, but I'm thinking another #40.