My son is now on a swim team and I was talking to his coach (he also manages the pool he swims at). The pool is a typical swim team pool in the Northeast, six lanes, 25 yds long (so it would be a 25 x 75 x 6 (approx), about 110,000 to 125,000 gal). He is thinking about putting up solar as he has plenty of roof space, I told him I love mine.
Then we started discussing sanitation. In NY, apparently commercial pools can no longer use CL gas. Most indoor pools like his use Cal-Hypo, which he does. He started to tell me how much he spends a month but we got interrupted. I mentioned that my pool uses a SWG. He thinks that it is WAY too expensive for a commerical pool of his size. With my pool going 30k gallons and my SWG costing 1500 or so to install and almost nothing to run, I can't imagine that even a very robust commercial application using SWG would be prohibitively expensive, either to install or run (unless they had to do lots of retrofit). The initial cost for salt might be high and there might be issues with an older pool's stainless hardware, but the actual SWG cost wouldn't be sky high, would it?
PoolSean, care to comment, I know that you do commercial size installations....
Then we started discussing sanitation. In NY, apparently commercial pools can no longer use CL gas. Most indoor pools like his use Cal-Hypo, which he does. He started to tell me how much he spends a month but we got interrupted. I mentioned that my pool uses a SWG. He thinks that it is WAY too expensive for a commerical pool of his size. With my pool going 30k gallons and my SWG costing 1500 or so to install and almost nothing to run, I can't imagine that even a very robust commercial application using SWG would be prohibitively expensive, either to install or run (unless they had to do lots of retrofit). The initial cost for salt might be high and there might be issues with an older pool's stainless hardware, but the actual SWG cost wouldn't be sky high, would it?
PoolSean, care to comment, I know that you do commercial size installations....