If your chlorinator is keeping up with the chlorine required all you usually need is hydrochloric/mercuric acid to keep the acid level right. At least that's all I have had to put in my pool over the last few years aside from the odd botle of algaecide.
Run pool filter and pump for 1 hour, to allow chemicals to circulate. Drain the water to skimmer level. Install the pool cover and secure it by tie downs or water bags. Set the pool filter to winter button and if it does not have one keep it to neutral. Open the filter and allow draining out of water and leave the cover open to let moisture evaporate.Plug off and drain the pump, and suck out the remaining water.
Salt, hydrochloric acid, cyanuric acid, It is best to have the water tested by a pool shop or other pool professional prior to adding anything to it.
You will need tools such as a hose, a net and filters to keep the water clean, lamps for swimming at night. And you need chemicals to keep your salt water pool clean.
A filter, pump and a salt generator.
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You need a salt water chlorinator. A salt water chlorinator is an electronic devise that converts the salt in the water from the pool into chlorine gas that is then absorbed into the water.
Yes, as the generator creates the sanitizer for the pool, just throwing salt in it won't do anything
Not if the pool is closed and winterized.
Yes there is no need to drain a chlorinated pool to change it to salt water pool all you have to do is add the salt install the new equipment and run it as usual.
You can vacuum a salt water pool the same way you would a non salt water pool. If you are vacuuming on the filter setting, your filter will help to clean the debris out of the pool. If you are dealing with a very dirty pool and use the waste setting, you will be wasting some of the water from the pool in the process. Depending on how much water you take out and need to refill, you will most likely need to add some salt back in to get your salt level back to normal operating levels.
Add salt
Yes as a mater of fact that is what salt water pool normally is. With a salt water pool there is a electronic salt water chlorinator installed that uses the salt in the water to create chlorine. However if you don't have a salt water chlorinator and prefer the feeling of a salt water pool then there is no reason not to add salt to the pool as well as keeping up the chlorine yourself.
two or three days a week
No. salt water is salt water. it already has salt in it
Simply put any pool can be a salt water pool, even an above ground pool.
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