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Why is your swimming pool water salty? Do you fill it from ocean water? I’m asking because most people fill from the municipal water supply which is not salty.
by Tagbert 2y ago
Why is your swimming pool water salty? Do you fill it from ocean water? I’m asking because most people fill from the municipal water supply which is not salty.
- c0balt 2y agoSalted pools are an alternative to chlorinated pools. It's mainly about slowing down the growth of gunk and keeping it clean enough.
- garyclarke27 2y agoIt uses a salt water system for sterilisation, is much nicer than chlorine based system - machine does make chlorine from salt but you don't notice it when swimming. No I don't use ocean water, I have a fresh water well then I add about 20 sacks of salt every year.
- koolba 2y agoWhy do you have to add more salt? Do you drain the pool regularly? I would imagine the salt stays in the pool when the water evaporates.
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoBrine pools typically have an electrolysis system that manufactures chlorine from the salt. As such, it’s a salty with low chlorine levels pool, which is still more pleasant than a high-chlorine pool.
- koolba 2y agoI understand what the salt is for. I don’t understand why you have to add more. If the water evaporates the salt remains. And the split sodium and chlorine also recombine. So how does it disapear?
- smiley1437 2y agoSome pools use a electrolysis system to generate chlorine for the pool. They'are marketed as salt-water chlorinators. It splits the sodium chloride in the water into chlorine and sodium hydroxide so you don't have to keep buying solid chlorine tablets. For the electrolysis to work, it needs bout 3000ppm to 5000ppm of salt, for a pool this could be hundreds of pounds of salt. As an aside, the ocean is about 35000 ppm salt so this is about 1/10th the saltiness of the ocean.