Ecosmarte?

[CarlD]

A properly maintained pool does not smell like "chlorine" (actually the smell is chloramine.)

Hey! Didn't Jan and I just say that?

But thanks for helping identify YET ANOTHER erosion system that claims to magically clean your water, while pumping silver and copper into the water. I'd rather have the silver in my pocket, thank you very much!

[chem geek]

I started a thread a while ago on Ecosmarte here disputing much of their "science" on their website. There's also a post near the end of that thread linking to some user experiences here. If you search on forums, you'll find mixed experiences, but quite a few bad ones mostly due to the metal ions getting out of control causing staining or other problems including cloudiness if chlorine isn't used.

[rustin]

Wow!
Thanks for the info. It seemed too good to be true and I guess thats probably the case.

I tried to search in the forum for ecosmarte and nothing came back,
maybe I did it wrong. Anyways I really appreciate the info and will stick with BBB and routine cleaning I guess.Just wish I could enjoy it more with the kids but the smell is too much.

I had read about the metabolic response causing the smell in other threads in the past and thought if I kept it up better maybe the smell would not be quite so bad. Not really sure why it is so strong to me but most things are. We have to use organic cleaning solutions in the house for the same reasons and the girls have to be careful with the perfume.

Really cant spend more routinely for the other methods and chlorine has worked well in the past so I guess we'll keep it as is.

Thanks to all!

[CarlD]

try giving the pool a good shocking--raising chlorine up to shock levels and keeping it there for 24 hours. Then let it come down and the smell should be gone--because you will have metabolized all the chloramines.

[waterbear]

Hey! Didn't Jan and I just say that?

Yes, I was just repeating it for empahsis!

But thanks for helping identify YET ANOTHER erosion system that claims to magically clean your water, while pumping silver and copper into the water. I'd rather have the silver in my pocket, thank you very much!

It's not an erosion system but a full blown ionizer that is extremely ovepriced! (no surprise here. It seems the higher the price the more pseodoscience!)
They even want you to replace your sand or zeolite with some very expensive ground glass that they conveniently sell at a different website these days. They used to sell it off the ecosmarte website!

[CarlD]

Nothing like a magic bullet!