A house divided: SWCG vs ozone+uv+Mineral sterilizer

[PoolGate]

Update: PB wanted $2750 for purchase/install of the Jandy 1400. That was including a $500 change fee. I convinced them to remove the change fee, so 2250 in total.

This is about right. Are you getting any automation?

 

[Rancho Cost-a-Lotta]

Unfortunately I’m stuck with the other items,

Hopefully you can be convinced (and you can convince your partner) to have the other items delivered to you in sealed boxes. Sell them to offset the cost of SWG. Having the PB do the install should provide you with a decent warranty, taking some the sting out of the $500+ install cost.

 

[Orion7319]

As already stated when used correctly, chlorine isn’t a bad thing. My son has severe food allergies and bad eczema. When he was a toddler the allergist had us give him bleach baths. We used a half cup of 6% bleach per bath. A standard tub holds around 80 gallons of water. It’s the chloramines that are bad. The chloramines are what causes the pool smell and irritates the eyes ect.. Chloramines are formed when the chlorine breaks down ammonia. The ammonia in a pool usually comes from people peeing in the pool. Therefore chlorine good.. pee bad…

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[Casey]

Is that the Freedom pool from Imagine in storm grey or volcanic black? I cant tell if there's a splash pad on it or not? I have the Illusion 40 in storm grey and absolutely love it.

Everyone has already driven home why you should go with the SWG. I just wanted to say you have great Imagine pool. I love mine.

 

[red-beard]

Truth is that it is hard to deprogram someone that has been dazzled by the snake oil sold by UV/Ozone and mineral system makers. What they want is for you to buy consumables at $400 plus/season. These products are sold primarily with new pools with low chlorine requirements and when you don't use enough chlorine because you believe the hype you will probably be ok for a year or 2. By the time you realize you've been had, your pool is unsanitary and you've spent a lot of unrecoverable money only to find out all you needed to do was increase your chlorine by a point or 2. The strength is convincing marks that chlorine is the enemy. They also lie. I am on a FaceBook UV/Ozone group just to monitor and am appalled at the outright lies. They frequently tell people that "those guys on TFP tell people to use so much chlorine that you're asking for problems". If you have to lie to sell your product, that says a lot.

In 2007, this was what happened to me. I was OK the first couple of years, and then I started with Mustard Algae. I only got it under control with the TFP methods: First liquid chlorine, then a switch to a SWG.

The only good thing the mineral system did was give me the space to install the SWG! If you have a "Pool Frog" that is where you will install your SWG.

I still have an OZONE unit in place. The Ozone system line will be used for my CO2 system! Eventually...

 

[red-beard]

I'm going to assume that one of the concerns for SWG is the chlorine smell and its harsh on the skin. I can assure you that it's neither. If you have the pool balanced to the recommendations on this site then you'll never have that "chlorine" smell. My skin feels better coming out of my pool than any other pool I've ever been in.

The smell is no different than any other pool. There is a slight taste to a salt water pool (~3,000 ppm). But you will not taste it beyond getting into the water. If you are used to swimming in the ocean (35,000 ppm), you will not taste it.

 

[TheBiin]

This is about right. Are you getting any automation?

We have the alpha in plus

 

[TheBiin]

Is that the Freedom pool from Imagine in storm grey or volcanic black? I cant tell if there's a splash pad on it or not? I have the Illusion 40 in storm grey and absolutely love it.

Everyone has already driven home why you should go with the SWG. I just wanted to say you have great Imagine pool. I love mine.

Volcanic black no splash pad.

 

[Casey]

Volcanic black no splash pad.

Nice!!! Cant wait to see it clean n shiny!!! That volcanic black is GORRRRRGEOUS!