Liquid Chlorine vs Baquacil - Can someone provide the pros and cons?

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VinnyinNJ said:
In my pool there is a very slight taste of salt when I tasted it. I have been told by people that their skin feels different in the pool than in other chlorine pools, not crusty feeling but maybe more smooth. I think I feel a difference but it's not very noticeable. I went with salt for ease of use, my old pool had a chorinator attached to it for when we went on vacation. I would put a bunch of pucks in it and hoped for the best. I had to start a week or so in advance to dial in the chlorinator. Also by using pucks my CYA increased which meant using more chlorine afterward.

Being in a salt water pool is nothing like being in the ocean! :cheers:
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Thanks for the information, but we are going to stick with chlorine.
 
SJPoe said:
I would highly recommend a 'salt water pool' and a SWG. It makes things so much simpler and easier. It absolutely is NOT like swimming in the ocean. Typical Ocean salinity is around 33000-37000ppm. Your pool running with an SWG would be 2500-4000ppm. A 'Chlorine' pool that has been running for any significant amount of time is probably well over 1000ppm salt already due to the chemistry involved.

As for the 'feel' or 'taste', you can do a little kitchen chemistry to compare.

Take 1 gallon of water ( A milk jug is perfect)
Add one-half ounce of table salt ( roughly a level tablespoon - 12grams if you have a metric scale)
Stir/Shake well.

That's probably close to 3000ppm. You might be able to taste the salt, I can, my wife can't. I would wager you couldn't tell it had salt in by 'feel'.

(Apologies to the chemists on the board who are now crying into their organically infused aqueous solution of C8H10N4O2).
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Appreciate all the information. They are starting next week and my wife and I already decided on a chlorine pool.
 
Pas_pool said:
Thanks for the information, but we are going to stick with chlorine.
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No problem! A salt is a chlorine pool, just use salt to generate the chlorine. I used liquid chlorine/bleach with our last pool with a backup of Trichlor pucks for when we went on vacation. I went with salt with this pool to make it easier on me. No more running to the store to buy gallons of the stuff, that's assuming I don't mess up the salt concentration! 🤣 Be aware that liquid chlorine does weaken over time and if left in heated areas so be careful on how much you buy at any given time.
 
VinnyinNJ said:
No problem! A salt is a chlorine pool, just use salt to generate the chlorine. I used liquid chlorine/bleach with our last pool with a backup of Trichlor pucks for when we went on vacation. I went with salt with this pool to make it easier on me. No more running to the store to buy gallons of the stuff, that's assuming I don't mess up the salt concentration! 🤣 Be aware that liquid chlorine does weaken over time and if left in heated areas so be careful on how much you buy at any given time.
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Great information on buying too much. Construction starts Monday or Tuesday so I will be in touch on this site to get the water treated right sometime soon
 
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