“Maintenance is extremely easy. I test the water weekly, rarely have to adjust the pH but I do add an oxidizer and a clarifying agent on alternate weeks. The pool stays crystal clear. We did build an addition to our house with a walk-in full basement. The pool room is now probably our most popular room.”

“Unless we are traveling, the pool typically gets used 6 days out of 7.”

“Bottom Line: A fantastic purchase. We’d do it again in a minute!”

B. Bicknell, MD, MPH – Marshfield, MA

By Scott Webb

“Customers tend to think that once they have a salt pool system installed, they can just let it go,” says Kevin Bean, partner at Argus Pool Supplies, Corona, Calif. “That’s really just the beginning of an education process, I’ve found. They’re often surprised to learn that they have to do more than what the builder told them.”

In short, homeowners often come to believe that with the addition of a salt system their burden of care is at an end, but the fact is that staining happens in any pool, regardless of sanitizer system, and certain kinds of stains are caused by elements of a salt system.

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