Found some older posts on here that talked about it. We have a water softener for the house would like to soften up the pool water a little. From what I read 1500 ppm would be a good number to shoot for? Or as a newbie am I better off staying away from it? Not looking to do a SWG. Pool is super clear and keeping my numbers on track.
Can you add salt to chlorine pool to make water water feel softer?
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- May 3, 2014
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Sure.
Water softener does not add salt to your water. It removes calcium.
Water softener does not add salt to your water. It removes calcium.
But adding salt to the pool would have the somewhat same effect? In hindsight I probably should have filled through the softener..
- May 3, 2014
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It does change the feeling of the water. Try it, only down side is the cost of the salt.
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My neighbor has a salt water pool, or at least has the equipment for a salt water pool, but for now is using liquid chlorine. I help him out once in a while with recommendations from here, he's not fully TFP, but I can get him close, and we were working on our openings, and noticed he had zero chlorine, despite him having a SWCG running. A few tests and days later, we found out his cell wasn't working. Long story, but he still hasn't got it fixed, and uses the Pool Math app to help manage the correct amount of LC to dose each day, and has about 3,200 salt in there. So he has the feeling of the salt water, and doses manually LC each day. Not ideal for me, but like I said, I get him close.
Like @mknauss points out, only the cost of salt will be your issue, and with a 6,000 gallon pool, I don't imagine you will need a lot of it. I'd shoot for 3,000 PPM if you are just looking for the salt feel and see how that goes. Use the Pool Math app to see the effects of adding so see how many bags you need.
Like @mknauss points out, only the cost of salt will be your issue, and with a 6,000 gallon pool, I don't imagine you will need a lot of it. I'd shoot for 3,000 PPM if you are just looking for the salt feel and see how that goes. Use the Pool Math app to see the effects of adding so see how many bags you need.
To get to 2000ppm it was 100lbs with the calculator (calculator is awesome). Which is a lot of salt but only like $15ish. I just do not want to screw anything up....
- May 3, 2014
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Your pools current salinity is likely somewhere between 500 and 1000 ppm. So try adding 1000 ppm worth or so and see if you can tell the difference.
- Mar 5, 2020
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Just make sure that you keep following the FC/CYA chart for liquid chlorine pools. Having salt in the water is not enough to qualify for applying the salt water chart. Running a SWG is important to run lower FC according to the "Salt Water Generator" chart - that's why it's called like that 