Salt Water Pools, Rocks and Sandstone
huntnfish
16 years ago
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Comments (56)Here is a salt water alternative that has fresher smelling and non-irritating water. It has very low chlorine and acid consumption and costs less to maintain. Why is America still in love with chlorine (salt chlorine included) as the main sanitizer/oxidizer? It's our chlorine addiction that has led to higher asthma rates compared to other countries that limit or don't use choline. Chlorine also make asthma worse. Check out this link: http://www.webmd.com/asthma/news/20040611/chlorine-pools-breathing-trouble My wife has noticed a flare up in her asthma in pools with both salt generated chlorine and traditional chlorine. After learning that the last Olympic pool built had a combination of ozone for oxidation and uv for sanitation we switched over to ozone and ultra violet pool systems. Because neither system leave a residual in the water we add a mineral sanitizer every six months (just the cheap one like the frog or poolRX) and keep about 0.3 ppm chlorine in the summer months. (We used to keep it between 2-4 PPM.) In the winter there is no chlorine in the water. My hair/eyes and skin feel great when I get out of the pool. The water doesn't smell and tastes like fresh water. I use way less acid than before and the pH is easier to balance. The most important thing is that my wife's asthma doesn't flare up when she swims now. Also, I don't have to worry about my kids breathing in or absorbing harmful chloramines. I run the pump at about %45 for about 7 hours and save a ton on electricity too. The UV bulbs, I am told have to be replaces every few years, but come with a two year warranty. It will cost me about $160 for both bulbs, and the ozone uses a $40 uv bulb which will also need to be replaced every three years or so. We have an in-line tablet feeder to we put a chlorine tablet into every other week during the summer and the mineral cartridge goes into the skimmer basket every six months....See MoreHow is stone doing with a salt pool?
Comments (16)I've built at least 1000 pools with salt water chlorine generation. Here's been my experiences; Kiln fire swimming pool coping bricks do fine and so do their pavers that match. Harder/denser stones such as Oklahome Wister, Tennessee Crab orchard, Pennsylvania Lilac, Quartzite, etc... do OK. Softer rocks like Arizona Rosa, Buff, Peach, Sedona Red etc... don't do well at all, this also goes for Mexican Travertine coping bricks such as Noche, Durango, etc.... Turkish Travertine does better than Mexican Travertine. I suggest sealing soft rocks and travertine. Slate coping bricks fall right in the middle, they're a coin toss. Don't use any unsealed flagstone for waterline tile, they'll show poorly within a year or two. When placed as patio decking dark flagstone, home bricks, and concrete patio pavers show chalkiness from evaporated salt due to splash out. SWG's have been the rage for the past 10 to 12 years but are now seeming to fall out of favor with the buyers. For the past decade 95%+ of my new starts have been salt. This year it's down to about 70%. See ya, Kelly...See MoreNeed Help, Salt Sys. pool Is Disintegrating Decorative Boulders
Comments (3)These might be artificial boulders made from a concrete product. If you see any evidence of aggregate from the broken pieces that would confirm it. Or they could be a mortar product with just sand hence your description of sandstone. Esthetically, I don't particularly like the look. In any case, you should only use a DENSE, REAL stone for features like this and never use a concrete decorative product around salt water (or any pool). All concrete products such as artificial stone, which is made from a lightweight concrete, will absorb some water and salt water will react with the mixture to some extent. I'm only coming from my brief experience selling artificial stone products for walls etc. I would never use them on a pool....See MoreWater Softeners: Salt versus Salt free
Comments (5)You should start by searching this forum for salt free softeners and reading some of the 19.627 sale free softener discussions you'll find. The long and short of it is that no salt free water conditioner has been found to reduce the effects of hardness to any measurable degree proven by any independent testing. From my research the ability of a salt free conditioner to effect the water in any degree diminishes dramatically as hardness increases above 5 gpg. The pros of a correctly sized softener set up to operate efficiently are longer service life of your plumbing, fixtures, and appliances along with less maintenance of that hardware and clothes lasting longer and using dramatically less soap and detergent. The cons of a correctly sized quality softener set up to operate efficiently are that you'll need to check the salt level in the brine tank once a week or so and replace the resin every 10 or 15 or 20 years.. With 27gpg along with a softener you should consider a reverse osmosis unit installed under the kitchen sink for drinking, cooking, and ice making water. If you install an RO on 27gpg water the membrane will fail in short order and repeatedly and that costs $$$. In your circumstances there's no real option other than an ion exchange water softener to mitigate the hardness. In order to assist you further we need to know measured hardness at your home, pH, TDS, iron, manganese, nitrates, and bacteria at a minimum and # of people in the home, # of bathrooms, diameter of the plumbing at the softener location, and the SFR (service flow rate) of the plumbing....See Morekeval
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