What are the benefits of a salt-water swimming pool?
It’s not really new, it just being marketed better the last few years. In a nut shell a salt water pool has a salinity of between 2500- 3200 ppm. Hardly enough to be able to taste the salt in the water. Contrary to popular belief, you won’t float higher than in a traditionally sanitized pool. The salt level just isn’t high enough. The salt’s job is to turn into a sanitizer. The pool water is pumped through the filtration system and heater. It then gets to the salt generator sensors and the actual cell that does the work. The salt in the water is turned into chlorine as it passes plates in the cell by electrolysis. Yep, chlorine is actually a type of salt. This then goes out to the pool and does the job of sanitizing. When it’s oxidized an organic, it turns back to normal salt again and the entire process gets repeated. These systems are actually pretty popular in new pool construction these days with about 40% of residential pools putting them in. They make the water a little softer an
