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I made the switch to using liquid chlorine late last year. My pool is just over a year old. I've read here that most people on this forum (seems like far greater than 50%) use SWCG for chlorine generation. While I've been thrilled with the results of using liquid chlorine this summer, it has been a little on the expensive side, and I'm seriously feeling guilty about sending plastic jugs to the recycling center. There is not a great option for refillable chlorine that I can find in Houston (yes, I know Pinch a Penny has 2.5 gallon refillable jugs, but that would be pretty heavy for me to try to dose into the pool, and it's also on the expensive side.)
The seemingly obvious solution would be to install a SWCG and sit back and relax. Except...out of all the pool builders we talked to before building our pool, NOT ONE wanted to install a SWCG system. We got all kinds of horror stories about metal furniture rusting and stone deteriorating and our house falling down because the gutters and the windows and probably the exterior doors were metal and the salt water - in the pool - would somehow affect our home. So we did what apparently everyone else does and went with the pool builder's recommendation to use Trichlor and weekly shock with Cal Hypo. First summer with the pool...climbing CYA levels...rinse, repeat...and here I am a year later as a confirmed TFP method pool owner.
But about the SWCG system...why are pool builders in Texas, or maybe just Houston, or maybe just all six of them that I talked to, SO AFRAID of SWCG systems? This is not a rhetorical question. If there is someone on this forum who can answer that question, I'd love to know the answer. What it just my bad luck to talk to six pool builders who all hated SWCG? For reference, my pool does have flagstone coping, a stacked flagstone spillover spa, and a 15 ton moss rock waterfall. I don't know if the composition of my pool was the driving factor. Thoughts?
I made the switch to using liquid chlorine late last year. My pool is just over a year old. I've read here that most people on this forum (seems like far greater than 50%) use SWCG for chlorine generation. While I've been thrilled with the results of using liquid chlorine this summer, it has been a little on the expensive side, and I'm seriously feeling guilty about sending plastic jugs to the recycling center. There is not a great option for refillable chlorine that I can find in Houston (yes, I know Pinch a Penny has 2.5 gallon refillable jugs, but that would be pretty heavy for me to try to dose into the pool, and it's also on the expensive side.)
The seemingly obvious solution would be to install a SWCG and sit back and relax. Except...out of all the pool builders we talked to before building our pool, NOT ONE wanted to install a SWCG system. We got all kinds of horror stories about metal furniture rusting and stone deteriorating and our house falling down because the gutters and the windows and probably the exterior doors were metal and the salt water - in the pool - would somehow affect our home. So we did what apparently everyone else does and went with the pool builder's recommendation to use Trichlor and weekly shock with Cal Hypo. First summer with the pool...climbing CYA levels...rinse, repeat...and here I am a year later as a confirmed TFP method pool owner.
But about the SWCG system...why are pool builders in Texas, or maybe just Houston, or maybe just all six of them that I talked to, SO AFRAID of SWCG systems? This is not a rhetorical question. If there is someone on this forum who can answer that question, I'd love to know the answer. What it just my bad luck to talk to six pool builders who all hated SWCG? For reference, my pool does have flagstone coping, a stacked flagstone spillover spa, and a 15 ton moss rock waterfall. I don't know if the composition of my pool was the driving factor. Thoughts?
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