Pool Newb getting quotes. Want SWG pool builder pushing chlorine

[dmproske]

So I've only been around above ground pools as a kid. Wife grew up around inground pools. Got a quote yesterday from PB#1. He specd out concrete decking with travertine coping. He was pushing a ozone generator and a nature 2 fusion. Both I've read about negatively on here. I mentioned I wanted a SWCG and didn't want to mess with the ozone or the nature 2. His response was that salt pools damage the coping and concrete, and that equipment manufactures void warranty's if you run a salt pool.

Is he correct or just pushing off what he wanted to sell? I want the lowest maintenance/chemical pool possible.

 

[Jimrahbe]

dm,

Welcome to TFP... A Great resource for debunking pool builder speak...

Just ask him what equipment manufactures void their warranty when a SWCG is used... Pentair, Hayward, Jandy??? Oh! wait, they all make Salt systems. So it can't be them!!!

Ask him to show you damage caused by a salt system... Especially to a concrete deck... He will not be able to do it.

He is either the most misinformed pool builder ever, or just flat out lying.

You also might want to ask him... who is he building the pool for?... You or Him...

Thanks for posting,

Jim R.

 

[chiefwej]

Ozone generators may be of some value in a indoor pool. Outdoors in Texas the sun will do more than any ozone generator. Nature2 add metals that can cause problems and staining.

Most of the arguments against salt seem to come from Texas. Texas pool builders love to use lots of Texas stone. It's very pretty, it's soft and easy to work with, and fairly cheap in Texas. It is also porous and more prone to salt damage than harder stone. The issue of salt damage is way overblown, but many pool builders in Texas won't give any warranty on a salt pool. The level of salt in a pool is a very small fraction of that in ocean water. In fact it is closer to what you have in your tears.

When I built my pool, I wanted a salt pool and worked with my pool builder to insure there was no natural stone anywhere near the water. We designed and built the pool to be a salt pool. I chose a pebble tech surface, with porcelain waterline tile, a cantilevered concrete deck with no coping. The deck is coated with a vinyl textured finish. So even if salt water was a problem (which I don't believe) there is really nothing anywhere for salt to have any effect on.

If a pool builder won't build and guarantee the pool you want, you have the wrong builder. I talked to some that wanted to design and build a pool for me. I kept looking until I found one that would work to design a pool with me. Twelve years later, the salt pool looks like it did on day one, and I'm still happy with it.

 

[dmproske]

Thanks for the replies. Do yall think that travertine coping tile would have an issue with salt? It's hard as heck I wouldn't think so.