ep80 All about salt water pools. benefits and drawbacks

Frank and Jacque discuss how salt water chlorine generation pools work, and the benefits and drawbacks of salt water pools.

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00:00-05:05 - introduction

05:06 - the great debate, what is better, salt or traditional chlorine pool. A salt pool is a chlorine pool. Salt water chlorine generation pools generate much or all of their own chlorine.

07:18 - salt water pools have typically 2600 to 4000 ppm of salt concentration, human tear 4000 ppm, the ocean has 35,000 ppm

09:00 - use salt that is made for swimming pools. you can stain your pool with non-pool salt

11:05 - how the salt system makes chlorine

12:00 - two types of salt chlorine generators, brine tank and in-line generators. This show is all about in-chlorine chlorine generators

13:29 - salt systems raise pH. this is one of the drawbacks of salt systems

15:10 -break

15:30 -salt systems introduce chlorine gas into the water.

16:49 - salt cells scale up. when salt cells scale up leading to false low salt level readings on the systems. this leads to people over salting their pools. test your salt levels independently of the the salt system reading.

18:12 - as cells reach the end of their usable life they will give a false low salt reading, leading to pool owners over salting their pools. test your salt levels independently of the the salt system reading. salt cells can be expensive to replace

18:55 - in theory salt in a salt pool should regenerate, resulting in a continuous level of salt. but in our experience this is not usually the case

20:15 - don't store large amounts of salt. it isn't worth it. Frank's story of his storm cellar turning into the worlds larges pot of stew, due to salt being stored with hundreds of cans of food. salt is corrosive and will damage metals.

24:25 - how much chlorine can a salt chlorine generator produce, and is it enough for your pool. you have to add stabilizer to a salt pool. even with adequate stabilizer the sun will still burn about 1 ppm of chlorine out of your pool per day.

26:04 - how does percentage setting on a salt system works. it is a percentage of time the system generates, not the amount it generates.

27:30 - the number of hours you run your pump reduces the amount of chlorine you can produce with your salt water chlorine generators.

28:40 - you still have to generate enough chlorine to maintain the minimum residual required to kill algae faster than it multiplies. you have to overcome loads on your chlorine

30:00 - running a salt system 24 hours a day is very beneficial

32:39 - break

34:05 - you still may have to shock your salt pool. the chemistry and maintenance on a salt pool is the same as with a traditional chlorine pool. environments, bather loads, combine chlorines, still may require occasional or even frequent shocking or super chlorinating. extra contaminants still have to be oxidized. all of the five basics of pool maintenance still apply to salt pools

37:23 - salt can be harsh on natural stones and metals in and around pools.