Hi there, so I am in the process of finalizing our spa design, and have been talking spillovers with our builder. We are going to have a fairly wide, 5-6 ft spillover, which sort of reduces our options to a stone slab, or a copper/steel spillover. Talking with the copper/steel company, I mentioned I was going to have a salt pool, based on all the information I have gained here. They strongly insisted that a stainless steel spillover would get "chewed up" by the salt, and even if i powder coated it, the salts would chew up the powder coating. They said copper would perform better, but still might see some damage down the line. I'm not sure patina'd copper would go with the rest of the tile/coping selection, so I was leaning steel. I would rather not do tile since I prefer an actual spillover rather than trickling down the tile wall.
Is salt truly the great destroyer of steel, or is this outdated information. The consensus from other posts i have read here seems to be general chemistry is usually the issue, mainly pH, but I just wanted to confirm before I forged ahead.
On a related but separate note, should I be pushing to have a sacrificial anode installed? Is this something that should be standard on any salt pool?
Is salt truly the great destroyer of steel, or is this outdated information. The consensus from other posts i have read here seems to be general chemistry is usually the issue, mainly pH, but I just wanted to confirm before I forged ahead.
On a related but separate note, should I be pushing to have a sacrificial anode installed? Is this something that should be standard on any salt pool?
