How to Convert Your Pool to Salt Water

Even though saltwater pools have been around since the 70’s, their popularity has increased rapidly in the last few years. In large part to their decreased cost to maintain. They’re also gentler on your skin, hair, and eyes, and you’ve most likely heard salt water is more healthy than chlorine, also.

Perhaps you’ve been mulling over a saltwater pool conversion for taking advantage of all those benefits. However, what a hassle that conversion would be, right? The conversion process is somewhat simple, so when you’re thinking of doing it yourself, don’t fret.

Why Do a Saltwater Pool Conversion?

Chlorinated pool water can be hard on people due to chemicals called chloramines. These composites are produced when the chlorine in your pool water comes into contact with things such as sweat and urine, and they can be detrimental in two ways.

First, they are not useful for sanitizing the water the way chlorine does, so water cleaning is constrained. Second, they can cause irritability of the eyes, skin, and lungs. Powerful chloramines can accumulate in the air surrounding a pool, particularly indoor pools. When the air is packed with these chloramines, it could even cause coughing or lead to an asthma attack.

Repeated exposure to chlorine might even cause some individuals to develop an allergy or sensitivity to it. And for those that already have a sensitivity to it, swimming in a chlorine pool could cause hives, rashes, and itchy skin outside the simple dryness you might experience from exposure to chlorine.

Should you have respiratory issues, like allergic rhinitis or asthma, you could find your symptoms compounded by regularly swimming in a chlorine pool. When your pool is causing you irritation, a saltwater pool conversion could be just the solution you’re looking for.

On the less extreme side, when you have blonde hair, you’ve most likely have had your hair turn green in a pool disinfected with chlorine. Colored hair can look awesome, however, this most likely isn’t the look you’re striving for. So, what’s the reason it happens? Science!

Similar to a lost penny at the beach turning green, copper in the pool’s water can make your hair green, and higher chlorine levels only worsen it. Chlorine and copper readily bond, coating your hair in green film. Converting to a saltwater pool can lower the probability of green-stained hair.

If you have this problem, make sure to test your pool water for heavy metals. One typical cause of copper in your pool water is using a copper-based algaecide.

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Why Do a Saltwater Pool Conversion?

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