I hadn't really heard of these before, but apparently they are growing in popularity. Less maintenance intensive than chlorinated pools...I went swimming in one this past weekend. A+++, would swim again.

7/28/2008 5:44:59 PM

k

7/28/2008 5:46:05 PM

i find your ideas intriguing.

7/28/2008 5:46:06 PM

i'll stick to regular pools plzkthnx

7/28/2008 5:46:46 PM

salt water pools are awful. makes my skin sooooo itchy

7/28/2008 5:47:51 PM

they're called oceans

[Edited on July 28, 2008 at 5:50 PM. Reason : .]

7/28/2008 5:50:38 PM

shark-less pools

7/28/2008 5:50:59 PM

lol, I'll stick with regular pools d00d

7/28/2008 5:51:12 PM

I too prefer salt water pools. They don't smell like a chemical pool and the water goes easier on your clothes (chlorine is bad for fabrics).

All the pools at my hotel in Hawaii were saltwater and fantastic. Not itchy at all. If you were itchy from a saltwater pool (after you dried off I assume) then they must have had the balance off and the pool was too salty. My parents neighbors also have a saltwater pool.

[Edited on July 28, 2008 at 5:55 PM. Reason : k]

7/28/2008 5:54:49 PM

id prob hate it cause i dont like the taste of salt water in my mouth

[Edited on July 28, 2008 at 5:57 PM. Reason : lol, iswidt]

7/28/2008 5:57:12 PM

my bro has one...I got a bad case of swimmers ear after swimmming in it everyday for like a week.....fool didn't keep the thing clean.


Makes my skin feel great!

7/28/2008 5:57:43 PM

^^better than chlorine in your mouth.

[Edited on July 28, 2008 at 5:58 PM. Reason : ^]

7/28/2008 5:58:39 PM

chlorine water taste never bothered me

7/28/2008 6:01:12 PM

Actually no, I would much rather get a mouthful of regular pool water than salt water.

I'm not sure how these compare to ocean water, but that stuff is terrible.

7/28/2008 6:01:18 PM

It doesn't taste like salt at all, and has no bad taste or harsh feeling like regular chlorine pools. It apparently does come down to how well it is maintained. My skin felt pretty good and I didn't have any chlorine effects, like burning eyes or fucked up hair.

7/28/2008 6:06:13 PM

^^salt water pools are obviously nowhere near as salty as the ocean, why would you want the liquid in your pool to be corrosive?

[Edited on July 28, 2008 at 6:06 PM. Reason : ^]

7/28/2008 6:06:18 PM

get ozonated water cleaner thing

7/28/2008 6:11:13 PM

The resort here has salt water pools and they are pretty gosh darn awesome.

7/28/2008 7:32:03 PM

i know several people in louisiana with salt water pools

seems to be pretty popular down there

7/28/2008 7:35:01 PM

Quote :

"my bro has one...I got a bad case of swimmers ear after swimmming in it everyday for like a week.....fool didn't keep the thing clean."

That has less to do with the water and more to do with the conditions inside your ear. Your ear is dark and moist. It's a breeding ground for bacteria. You can get an infection from distilled water if you let it sit in there and fester.

7/28/2008 7:37:53 PM

this is interesting. I think I was in one of these in the bahamas once but I didnt really notice it. Is the salt in concentrations such that you barely taste it?

7/28/2008 7:38:14 PM

IMO it was

7/28/2008 7:40:40 PM

Eeenteresting. I just thought the chlorine was off.

7/28/2008 7:41:23 PM

i'd be too tempted to try and turn it into a giant reef tank

7/28/2008 8:01:39 PM

You know a salt-water pool is chlorinated right?

There is a salt water chlorine generator that converts the salt into chlorine.

Also, if you can smell the chlorine in a pool, there isnt enough chlorine in it and its not clean.

7/29/2008 8:17:01 AM

It's clean, it just still has the remnants of whatever chemical chlorine and bacteria make in the water, thats what burns your eyes. But yeah, there isn't enough chlorine.

[Edited on July 29, 2008 at 8:21 AM. Reason : .]

7/29/2008 8:21:12 AM

i swam in a salt water pool on a cruise once. it was horrible. especially if you jumped in expecting normal pool water.

7/29/2008 8:22:23 AM

Okay, a few things:

Salt water pools are still using chlorine as its disinfectant. "Salt water pools" are pools that have a chlorine generator. There are two types of chlorine generation, the brine method and in-line generation. In-line generation is what you all are talking about, you add salt to the water and chlorine is generated in a cell that is plumbed inline to the system. As the salt water passes into the cell electrolysis creates chlorine gas, sodium hydroxide, and hydrogen gas. Most chlorine generators operate at about 3,000 ppm of salt, thats less than 1/10th of what the ocean is. It is not enough to taste, but you may notice a "smoother" or "silkier" feel to the water.\

The itch and chlorine smell that you may notice in some pools is because of combined chlorines called chloramines and is the result of poor chemistry management. Burning eyes are usually the result of bad pH, and green hair is from copper or other metals in the water.

Quote :

"get ozonated water cleaner thing"

ozonation is a secondary oxidizer but will not replace your primary disinfectant

[Edited on July 29, 2008 at 8:55 AM. Reason : pH and hair]

7/29/2008 8:50:29 AM

^ FTW

7/29/2008 8:53:22 AM

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"chloramines"

that's what I was looking for. fucking kids pissing in the pool.

[Edited on July 29, 2008 at 8:58 AM. Reason : .]

7/29/2008 8:56:17 AM

Largest pool in the world is a salt water pool(surprise!).

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-509718/Try-making-splash-worlds-largest-swimming-pool--1-000-yards-long.html

7/29/2008 8:56:35 AM

^^
HOCl + NH3 -> NH2Cl + H2O
HOCl + NH2Cl -> NHCl2 + H2O
HOCl + NHCl2 -> NCl3 + H2O

7/29/2008 9:32:11 AM

^ what are the last two equations?

I was referring to ammonia mixing with HOCL.

7/29/2008 9:36:14 AM

cruise ships generally have salt water pools above deck

7/29/2008 9:36:36 AM

Quote :

"pooljobs Veteran 318 Posts user info edit post ^^ HOCl + NH3 -> NH2Cl + H2O HOCl + NH2Cl -> NHCl2 + H2O HOCl + NHCl2 -> NCl3 + H2O 7/29/2008 9:32:11 AM dgspencer All American 1198 Posts user info edit post ^ what are the last two equations? I was referring to ammonia mixing with HOCL. "

It's the chlorine cycle to reach breakpoint chlorination

Hypochlorous Acid + Ammonia -> Monochloramine + Water
Hypochlorous Acid + Monochloramine -> Dichloramine + Water
Hypochlorous Acid + Dichloramine -> Nitrogen Trichloride + Water
Then the nitrogen gasses off and you have clean water again. When you have insufficient free chlorine (Hypochlorous Acid) you can't make it through the cycle and thats when you get stuck with chloramines.

I know way too much about this stuff

[Edited on July 29, 2008 at 9:44 AM. Reason : .]

7/29/2008 9:43:30 AM

We had one in highschool. We changed to it for a couple reasons...

1) no cholorine anymore, the system broke down the NaCl of the salt and made chlorine etc.
2) water was softer, didnt bother your eyes, skin or hair
3) water was clearer, you could clearly see to the bottom

was great, and only about 1/3 as salty as a human tear drop

YES, there was a electricly charged plate that I had to clean daily to remove sodium calcium deposits from, along with adding water to the pool- las vegas gets hot as hell



[Edited on July 29, 2008 at 10:00 AM. Reason : oh]

7/29/2008 9:43:58 AM

ok lol sorry I didn't piece them together, I thought you were arguing with me or something.

I'm a cpo so I know what you're talking about now woot.

At least the conversation hasen't shifted to alkalinity vs. pH yet.

[Edited on July 29, 2008 at 9:48 AM. Reason : .]

[Edited on July 29, 2008 at 9:48 AM. Reason : .]

7/29/2008 9:45:28 AM

Chapter 5 of your book

CPO® # 27*222353
CPO Instructor® # 27*101314

Quote :

"YES, there was a electricly charged plate that I had to clean daily to remove sodium deposits from"

calcium deposits but daily? damn, what kind of unit was that?

[Edited on July 29, 2008 at 9:56 AM. Reason : .]

7/29/2008 9:48:36 AM

well we got the system in 94...so it was problably older technology, pretty large pool +13000 gallons

and this is Vegas, not sure if that helped with heat and evaporation daily.

7/29/2008 9:59:08 AM

i love these too
went in one a few weekends ago

very nice

7/29/2008 11:04:19 AM

Quote :

"they're called oceans"

7/29/2008 11:07:31 AM

the only time I will swim in a salt water pool is in a cruise ship. and even then it is because there is no other option. regular baquacil water ftw.

7/29/2008 11:23:58 AM

Quote :

"baquacil"

Any pool treated with baquacil is bound to have fantastic problems after about the 3rd season of use. Youll start to get the "white tissue" in the pool, the pink mold/slime, etc....

The house we bought a few years ago had a soft swim (baquacil) pool and I immediately converted it to chlorine.


I recommend http://www.troublefreepool.com to anyone that has a pool.

7/29/2008 1:04:35 PM

i can't open my eyes under water....

7/29/2008 1:12:34 PM

Quote :

"las vegas gets hot as hell"

hahah no shit, i think you'd have to actually see how fast water disappears in the southwest before you'd actually believe it

7/29/2008 1:14:30 PM

the itchy feeling comes from not drying off and the water evaporating leaving the salt behind... just dry off - thats what towels are for

7/29/2008 1:53:46 PM

wrong

towels are for keeping period blood off the sheets

7/29/2008 1:55:21 PM

Quote :

"Any pool treated with baquacil is bound to have fantastic problems after about the 3rd season of use. Youll start to get the "white tissue" in the pool, the pink mold/slime, etc...."

baquacil, or Polyhexamethylene Biguanide (PHMB), is not good against organic materials, which is why you get the slime. It has to be used in conjunction with a hydrogen peroxide oxidizer and an algicide. It is not commercially approved in most places. It's more expensive then any chlorine system and requires more work.

7/29/2008 3:10:27 PM

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KZrBddTy13o

perfect

7/29/2008 3:12:18 PM

set em up

7/29/2008 5:21:34 PM