- Dec 25, 2010
- 91
Any of you own a stainless steel or copper swimming pool? No liner or concrete floor hybrids please. 100% SS or copper.
Thanks!
J
Thanks!
J
Stainless Steel pool?
- Thread starter jatkinson
- Start date
- May 23, 2015
- 25,693
- Pool Size
- 16000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
Do you mean the entire pool structure is composed of steel or copper with nothing between the water and the metal surface?
- Dec 25, 2010
- 91
I know some contractors doing SS on or in rooftop, high rises , sky scrapers etc.
Where are you?
Btw - Deep pockets are needed.
Where are you?
Btw - Deep pockets are needed.
- Dec 25, 2010
- 91
How deep? lol Are these guys running chlorine or some kind of UV light for bacterial control? Texas now. SS is really popular in Europe and kinda just starting to show up in the residential market in the states.. My local PB had never even heard of one, but that's not saying much if you met this winner. Saw a pool recently made of all copper. It was painfully pretty.
- Dec 25, 2010
- 91
That's pretty friggen DEEP. Copper adds 30%I cant imagine the work needed for a full SS pool. I assume it is welded. Are the welds sanitary welds? Is that overkill for a pool - maybe not. Geez that is expensive.
Is the copper pool soldered together?
Is the copper pool soldered together?
- May 23, 2015
- 25,693
- Pool Size
- 16000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
A metal walled pool would be very difficult to manage chemically. Both chlorides (from salt and chlorine) as well as sulfates (from dry acid and non-chlorine shock) would be very detrimental to steel surfaces unless very specific steel alloys are used and great care is taken to ensure the pH never gets too low (as well as avoid any galvanic coupling issues). Copper would be marginally better but still require extra care in terms of chemistry. Chlorine sanitation is really not the best choice so one would have to resort to a low chlorine system or a non-chlorine/alternative sanitizer system (maybe baquacil?) to sanitize the water. I would not feel safe unless the shell and bonding loop were installed with an impressed cathodic current protection (ICCP) system otherwise stray galvanic potentials could easily lead to corrosion.
It might look really nice but a trouble-free pool it would certainly not be....
It might look really nice but a trouble-free pool it would certainly not be....
We have built stainless steel walled pools with concrete bottoms for 35 plus years. I have only ever seen one issue with the wall panels and that was a salt chlorination unit introducing stray current into the water and causing "rust" to form at the wall ladders where the foot cup edge was exposed. I would not be afraid of one built this way. The thing that would worry me is if it is a welded seam exposed to chemistry. I know several manufacturers of outdoor wood fired boilers have had issues with the welds deteriorating from exposure to water chemistry.
- May 23, 2015
- 25,693
- Pool Size
- 16000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
So the wall panels are stainless steel with seals between them (similar to fiberglass/plaster hybrid pools) ? Or is the steel continuous?
- May 23, 2015
- 25,693
- Pool Size
- 16000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
I tried tapping on the words but there’s no link...must be a broken website
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I’m not really loving it....looks like a giant pot you’d boil lobsters in.....I think I’d stick with a traditional surface....
- May 23, 2015
- 25,693
- Pool Size
- 16000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
I’ve always wanted to swim in a pool on top of an 80 story high rise.....
- May 3, 2014
- 62,672
- Pool Size
- 6000
- Surface
- Fiberglass
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-40
wow...at the cost of a drink (even after making the currency exchange) I'm sure no one gets too tipsy and falls over board.....wow. Nice pool!
Maddie
Maddie
Sounds beautiful! All I can think about is touching an exposed part above the waterline in summer. Must get so hot.
JoeSelf
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Hardrock AC just put one in the SPA. Had to take down / move duct on the floor below so new steel could be put in for it. Stainless shell, not sure if there is a liner in it.
I figure out how to run the duct and I am never there when it's all pretty.
I figure out how to run the duct and I am never there when it's all pretty.
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