3 Bad Facts About Salt Water Pools

Have salt water pool for 5 years, had 0 issues. Very happy with it. Once in a year when I open pool for a season - I just bring water sample to my pool store, they test water, give me all chemicals I need to add once - and that's it. No other maintenance for a year, no problems.

I had a saltwater pool at our house in Georgia for almost 20 years. Performed all testing and maintenance myself and never had any of the issues mentioned here, and with proper maintenance the converter plates do not present a drawback. I solar heated the pool using solar panels with a water to water heat exchanger system and even when idled in summer months had little scaling issues and no unexpected negative problems. So my guess is if you have issues it's maintenance related or a poorly designed system. I will be duplicating my old Georgia system in my upcoming Florida build.

Ive been servicing 40 to 60 pools weekly for almost 10 years. Salt water pools are the easiest and cheapest to maintain. The ph going up depends on the type of plaster mainly. Pools with vynil liner actually stay in perfect range when you convert them to salt. Only about 3 months a year i have to adjust the ph weekly...

I have an above ground pool, now in its third season, for which I use a salt water system. I use about 3kg of pool salt per cubic meter of water and my convertor releases chlorine gas, (generated from the salt, sodium chloride) into the water which kills off the algae and bacteria. As long as the pH is set and kept at around 7 (by using pH-minus), and the pool is kept (almost) free of leaves and other debris, the salt water system works very well. I use filter balls in my filter which I exchange for clean ones usually once per season, and I have crystal clear water in my pool. I remove fine debris from the bottom of the pool by using the Pool Blaster Max.

we have been installing and servicing salt water systems for over 12 years and once pH is kept under control and water properly balanced we havent had any issues. You can use acid injection system to keep pH in check or what we have been doing is to lower the Total Alkalinity down to around 70ppm which prevents the pH from bouncing up. Of course all other levels effect the Calcite Saturation Index (CSI) so they need to be adjusted. We have maintained pools here in the Bahamas where we go once every 3 months to balance and check systems and the pools are kept in perfect balance. Cells cleaned every 3 months so this works. We have had pools stay in balance up to 6 months without service but we dont recommend that long. ideally pH should be kept between 7.4 and 7.6 on a weekly basis.

I can only speak to my own experience but Ive had a salt water pool for 3 years and have had no issues with scaling (vinyl liner inground). My pH is stable around 7.6. My approach though is that I vastly oversized my SWG, so I run it at 20% of output capacity for 8 hours overnight, essentially just over 1.5hrs in a generation state to keep around 3 to 4 ppm. All other levels of pool are balanced per recommended by troublefreepool forum. You should have clarified this information based on type of pool, as a concrete pool or fiberglass pool will have different characteristics than a vinyl pool.

I’ve owned a salt water pool for 18 years at the same home, never had a issue with high PH probably cause the rain balancing it out or the proper Maintanence, also cleaning the system is normal maintenance, so this video is screwy in a way, to funny how people make claims.

I had a saltwater pool (and about to build another with a salt cell), the first pool I had was pretty easy to take care of maintain and the water was much softer and didn't smell like high chlorine and didn't make my skin itch.

My friends all have salt water pools and I always found my skin to be so dry after swimming in their pools. I just bought a house that has a pool, it’s a chlorine pool and the water feels so much nicer than my friend’s pools that are saltwater. I have no chlorine smell and the water doesn’t dry my hair or my skin. When I first bought this house with the pool I thought for sure that I would be switching it over to a saltwater (because that seemed to be the popular move these days). I won’t do it. No way! I have an automatic chlorinator, my ph, alkalinity, hardness, everything is perfect and it’s not hard to maintain at all. Two neighbours across the street have saltwater and one had to get a new heater this year and the other one had to have their heater repaired, both because of corrosion, their heaters are 7 and 8 years old. The heater for my pool is almost 15 years old! I don’t see any benefit to this. There is no way that dropping a hundred pounds of salt is easier than a couple of chlorine pucks in my automatic chlorinator! And the water feels so much better without all of the salt in it. There are also some city’s now that won’t let you drain your salt water pool into the sewer system so you have to pay a company to remove that water in the fall when you drain the pool for the winter. I think the idea behind salt water pools came from salt manufacturers! People use less salt in their food and most people don’t even use salt on their sidewalks for deicing anymore. They needed people to buy lots of salt and convinced all of you that it was better and less work than a chlorine puck! 😂

I’m getting chlorine or salt flakes in the pool regularly. The pools older but I replaced the salt cell this year. I use acid probably every other month to bring the ph down. I’m running the salt cell at 60% and maintain chlorine levels as long as water temperatures don’t exceed 90. Im also on well water which is extremely hard.

Great video very clear Yah bless

All I care about is, easier to keep clear or not? Could care less about PH. Clear or not? Am I adding 2 gallons of chlorine per week or not? Algaecide, and all the other GD chemicals? Just looking for a easier clear pool system.

We hadno Ph issues with our salt water pool. We have had to add very little salt or calcium for over a year. One half of a bottle of Shock upon closing and the other half upon opening the pool. It's always in balance and crystal clear.

I’m getting my 3 year old a kiddie pool I want to put salt water in it instead of chlorine because it seems less maintenance. Idk how much to use or if there is any other steps besides throwing some salt in there..

Is it also apply to Seawater Aquaculture pond ?

I think a lot of people are missing the point in the comments below. This is not for people who stay on top of their chemistry and understand how the process works. This is for people who think all you have to do is throw a bag of salt in the pool and call it a day. This is absolutely accurate I know tons of people with salt pools that forget to add acid to their pool and they commonly have scaling. This video is very helpful and anyone who didn't pay attention to detail will probably suffer later on down the road if you think you know it all already. I've been working on pulls for a while and I learned something in this video I wasn't even thinking about the fact that it can do damage to the heaters and such. So thank you for that and keep the good videos coming in.

This was a very clear explanation of what I’m going through. I wish I had seen this video before I got a salt water converter. It scaled up the entire inside shell of my hot tub. I have a mess to clean up if I didn’t ruin it. Thanks very much!!

What about the water temperature and the chlorine generator? Does the water actually have to be over 70 fatenhight?

good info. I never considered the points you made.

I've had a salt system for about a year and my PH has never tested above 7.4.