First Time Pool Owner - Advice

[Newdude]

Is it normal for pool companies to state that any issues to pool due to salt is not covered under the warrenty?

It is totally normal. They don't know their rump from their elbow. 'Chlorine' pools use Sodium Hyperchlorite, and everything else added to the pool either is a salt, or breaks down into salt.

Yet nobody ever voids the warranty on the 'chlorine' pool when the salinity reaches 'salt pool' levels from all those additions containing or breaking down to salt. Nobody even tests it. Ever.

Call it a 'salt pool' and everyone loses their minds.

Also will the supplamentary cartridge make it easier/automatic to add chlorine when the temp falls below 60 or do you have to add this manually anyway?

I'd skip the tab feeder. Tabs are very slow to dissolve when it's cold. The demand is real low too, so it's kinda a wash, but it's one more thing to wonder about and pay attention to.

The acid in the tabs eats the feeder and many are wonky before long. Then the flow is never right and folks can't get them to repeat what they need week over week.

Using tabs in a tab feeder will also leach acid into your equipment when the pump is off. We recommend using the floating tab feeders in the pool itself if the need arises.

 

[Vardster]

It is totally normal. They don't know their rump from their elbow. 'Chlorine' pools use Sodium Hyperchlorite, and everything else added to the pool either is a salt, or breaks down into salt.

Yet nobody ever voids the warranty on the 'chlorine' pool when the salinity reaches 'salt pool' levels from all those additions containing or breaking down to salt. Nobody even tests it. Ever.

Call it a 'salt pool' and everyone loses their minds.


I'd skip the tab feeder. Tabs are very slow to dissolve when it's cold. The demand is real low too, so it's kinda a wash, but it's one more thing to wonder about and pay attention to.

The acid in the tabs eats the feeder and many are wonky before long. Then the flow is never right and folks can't get them to repeat what they need week over week.

Using tabs in a tab feeder will also leach acid into your equipment when the pump is off. We recommend using the floating tab feeders in the pool itself if the need arises.

For the 60 degrees is that temperature of the pool water? So if we use the heater to keep the temp above that level for the whole season we would only need to shock the pool when we open in the spring?

 

[Newdude]

For the 60 degrees is that temperature of the pool water?

Yes, water temp for the SWG. Or thereabouts. Cheapo thermometers aren't the most dead on accurate of things.

So if we use the heater to keep the temp above that level for the whole season

The heater also needs some warmth, loosing too much efficiency as it's cooler out. Gas heaters work lower than HPs, and both do better only having to maintain warm water versus heating it from scratch.

we would only need to shock the pool when we open in the spring?

You SLAM when the testing tells you to. We'll teach you how to close right so that ot hopefully won't be needed in the spring.