Should i switch to a saltwater pool system? Well that depends on a few factors, including money check it out. First, a saltwater pool is actually a chlorine pool. Most people don't know this. The salty water in your pool passes through what's called a saltwater chlorine generator and converts that salt into chlorine, so you treat a saltwater pool the same way that you would treat a chlorine sanitized pool.

The biggest difference, though, is that you no longer have to buy and add chlorine to your pool in the form of granulars or tablets or those pucks, which is actually pretty nice. However, you do have to add a large amount of salt to the water and keep an eye on salinity levels in your pool. So it's not completely hands-off, which most people might think. On top of that, you still have to manage the ph the alkalinity, calcium, hardness and stabilizer levels.

So all of the same pool chemistry that you would normally do in a chlorine pool, you're gon na have to do for a saltwater pool as well and for some cases you may still have to shock the pool with a standard chlorine shock. But that's really only if you're dealing with an issue like algae, the saltwater system actually comes with a super chlorinate button which acts like shocking. Your pool and increasing the salt to chlorine generation, which sounds pretty good and saltwater systems, are actually pretty good and i actually recommend getting one if it fits within your budget. But it's an expensive conversion.

You'll have to install the saltwater generator directly into your pool's filter system and it'll, be the last step before the water enters back into your pool from the filter system, and you can get a small one or you can get a pretty big one. Depending on what you want, so if you want to make the upfront cost to save money on chlorine in the long run, then i say: go for it and then finally, does the water actually taste salty, i mean you are adding basically table salt to your pool, But you're only adding about 3 000 parts per million, which may sound like a lot, but actually it's really hard to taste that salt in the water. If you really try to taste it, you would actually taste it, but i actually don't recommend tasting your pool water. If you're looking for an easy to follow tutorial, that'll answer, all your pool questions go check out our pool care handbook and video course you'll, get over 30 in-depth video lessons and a step-by-step downloadable guide, covering everything you need to know about full maintenance.

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