| Salt water swimming pools 08:27 - Apr 22 with 4568 views | Gloucs_R |
Sorry, appreciate this is one of the most random posts on loft for words....
What's a salt water swimming pool like competed to freshwater?
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| Salt water swimming pools on 08:34 - Apr 22 with 4085 views | FredManRave |
Could leave a bad taste in your mouth, a bit like Jake Clarke-Salter. |  |
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| Salt water swimming pools on 09:18 - Apr 22 with 4022 views | joe90 |
I’ve done a bit of fresh water wild swimming in the UK and Australia/New Zealand. I think each place has its own feel. Rivers feel very different to a lake and a lake very different to a rock pool. Most of the time I wasn’t really doing any proper swimming, it was more of a leisurely dunk.
There is a swimming lake near me and I have swam there many times. I try avoiding putting my head under too many times, so I find it a restrictive swimming experience.
Have you been to the sea water pool in Clevedon? [Post edited 22 Apr 2023 9:19]
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| Salt water swimming pools on 10:31 - Apr 22 with 3928 views | R_from_afar |
| Salt water swimming pools on 09:18 - Apr 22 by joe90 |
I’ve done a bit of fresh water wild swimming in the UK and Australia/New Zealand. I think each place has its own feel. Rivers feel very different to a lake and a lake very different to a rock pool. Most of the time I wasn’t really doing any proper swimming, it was more of a leisurely dunk.
There is a swimming lake near me and I have swam there many times. I try avoiding putting my head under too many times, so I find it a restrictive swimming experience.
Have you been to the sea water pool in Clevedon? [Post edited 22 Apr 2023 9:19]
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I was just thinking of that pool at Clevedon, I have walked past it many times but have never been in it. It looked a trifle bleak on the webcam just now. Here is the TripAdvisor site:
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g504119-d12198640-Reviews-Clevedon
I have done quite a lot of swimming in lakes in Austria - a friend owns a snackbar next to a lake in Karinthia - and it is a strange sensation standing on soft mud not sand or pebbles. |  |
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| Salt water swimming pools on 11:05 - Apr 22 with 3868 views | distortR |
Roll on the summer. I put on a pair of shorts and t-shirt, walk the dog on the beach and, if i feel like it, have a dip. 'My octopus teacher' - shit name, wonderful film - got me swimming again. |  | | |
| Salt water swimming pools on 11:15 - Apr 22 with 3849 views | ted_hendrix |
We used to visit a man made salt water pool on the North West coast of Madeira, gotta admit It used to get a bit wild when the North Atlantic Ocean was blowing wild.
Great fun though. |  |
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| Salt water swimming pools on 11:17 - Apr 22 with 3836 views | kernowhoop |
It might be a sea-water pool, or, a pool where the water is kept clean by being filtered through a large quantity of salt, rather than through the use of chlorine. If it is a salt filtration system (which I have used a lot), you will only just be aware of the salt. The water may seem almost 'silky'. If it is fully 'salt water' and you are not used to swimming in the sea, it may feel extremely salty compared with a normal pool. | | | |
| Salt water swimming pools on 12:39 - Apr 22 with 3723 views | thame_hoops |
They are very common abroad, much cheaper to maintain than chlorine. I remember my kids jumping in one in Malta without realising it was salt Water. Gave my son the shock of his life. Personally, I don’t like them, bad enough coming out of the sea and having all the salt dry on your skin. |  | | |
| Salt water swimming pools on 14:01 - Apr 22 with 3627 views | WD99 |
I’m over in the US. My parents converted the pool at their house to salt water years ago and it was awesome. Much less a sense of chlorine when you are in there, and I think it was easier to maintain too. If I could ever afford a pool–lol–I would definitely go salt water. | | | |
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| Salt water swimming pools on 14:08 - Apr 22 with 3618 views | Gloucs_R |
| Salt water swimming pools on 12:39 - Apr 22 by thame_hoops |
They are very common abroad, much cheaper to maintain than chlorine. I remember my kids jumping in one in Malta without realising it was salt Water. Gave my son the shock of his life. Personally, I don’t like them, bad enough coming out of the sea and having all the salt dry on your skin. |
Thanks all
This is what I'm slightly concerned about. I'm a little bit worried that the saltiness will affect the kids skin mixed with sun cream. [Post edited 22 Apr 2023 14:09]
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| Salt water swimming pools on 14:30 - Apr 22 with 3582 views | Metallica_Hoop |
I swam in South Africa once in the Indian Ocean (I think cos it was warm)and the current was so strong it was all me and the girl I was with could do to stay between the flags and she's a really strong swimmer.
Then a wave took me straight up on to the beach and my shorts came down. highly undignified!
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| Salt water swimming pools on 21:00 - Apr 22 with 3455 views | OldPedro |
| Salt water swimming pools on 14:08 - Apr 22 by Gloucs_R |
Thanks all
This is what I'm slightly concerned about. I'm a little bit worried that the saltiness will affect the kids skin mixed with sun cream. [Post edited 22 Apr 2023 14:09]
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I suffer from eczema and when we go abroad, if I can, I go for a salt water pool as it doesn't irritate my skin in the way that chlorinated water pools do |  |
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| Salt water swimming pools on 21:07 - Apr 22 with 3427 views | westy |
It’s like eating a whole tube of salt and vinegar Pringles in 5 minutes without having a drink. 😂 | | | |
| Salt water swimming pools on 21:08 - Apr 22 with 3423 views | QPRcounsellor |
As Alan Partridge said "What the Guardian call 'wild swimminng', or what we all used to just call 'swimming'". | | | |
| Salt water swimming pools on 09:16 - Apr 23 with 3247 views | joe90 |
| Salt water swimming pools on 10:31 - Apr 22 by R_from_afar |
I was just thinking of that pool at Clevedon, I have walked past it many times but have never been in it. It looked a trifle bleak on the webcam just now. Here is the TripAdvisor site:
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g504119-d12198640-Reviews-Clevedon
I have done quite a lot of swimming in lakes in Austria - a friend owns a snackbar next to a lake in Karinthia - and it is a strange sensation standing on soft mud not sand or pebbles. |
The lakes in Austria look beautiful! Agree about the mud, does take a bit of getting use to. | | | |
| Salt water swimming pools on 09:22 - Apr 23 with 3232 views | distortR |
| Salt water swimming pools on 09:16 - Apr 23 by joe90 |
The lakes in Austria look beautiful! Agree about the mud, does take a bit of getting use to. |
Asa kid, we used to go to Winchelsea beach, you wade through a muddy bit there before getting to the sandbanks. Remnants of a forest I believe. | | | |
| Salt water swimming pools on 09:30 - Apr 23 with 3212 views | Lanhoop |
| Salt water swimming pools on 14:08 - Apr 22 by Gloucs_R |
Thanks all
This is what I'm slightly concerned about. I'm a little bit worried that the saltiness will affect the kids skin mixed with sun cream. [Post edited 22 Apr 2023 14:09]
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Don't be worried. It's better than the chemical cleaners in pools. Just shower off afterwards just like you should with a chlorine pool. | | | |
| Salt water swimming pools on 12:37 - Apr 23 with 3122 views | LazyFan |
If the water gets in your eyes (which it will) then you eyes can sting for a while.
No thanks.
I swim in proper indoor swimming pools, where I can do it safely (lifeguard present) and efficiently. If you want to swim for fun, then we have proper water parks, with nice rapids and so on.
If you want to learn how to swim against heavy waves as the sea can sometimes do to you and also tough undercurrents, there are specialist pools for that too (with lifeguards).
Treat large amounts of water with respect; it can be dangerous. |  |
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| Salt water swimming pools on 21:54 - Apr 23 with 3039 views | GaryT |
It's a bit of a long running myth that a salt water pool is very different from a regular chlorine pool but not so. Sure, the water feels softer, even silky and many people prefer that and sure, they can be better for your skin, hair, clothes and eyes but not for the reasons you might think.
A salt water pool gets its name from the Salt Water Generator (SWG) that drip feeds the chlorine it generates from the salt into the pool. This slow, continues input is dialled in to give the exact amount of chlorine the pool needs, after adjusting for the many factors that can increase or decrease the demand. Once you have reached a point where the level of chlorine doesn't change from day to day, you take your hands off the wheel and leave it to do it's thing which is where the ease of maintenance comes from.
Maintaining a regular chlorine pool isn't as easy because, unless you have an expensive test kit, you don't have the tools to see the exact levels of all the different chemicals you need to adjust and you are just playing it by ear. This is why many people have bad experiences with non SWG pools, not because it is a regular chlorine pool but because the water isn't balanced correctly and this is what leads to skin irritation, green hair, itchy eyes and elastic in swimwear degradation. Another clue for spotting a pool where the water isn't balanced correctly is that you can smell the chlorine. In fact, what you are smelling is Combined Chlorine, or chlorine that has bound itself to 'nasties' (like algae) and become chloramine. A well balanced pool doesn't have nasties so doesn't smell.
I could go on, Oh how I could go on but in a nutshell, treat a salt water pool as you would any other pool, shower before and after going in and if you get a strong smell of chlorine/bleach, probably best to give it a swerve.
PS Bleach and chlorine are the same thing, sodium hypochlorite. [Post edited 23 Apr 2023 21:57]
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| Salt water swimming pools on 22:02 - Apr 23 with 3020 views | Boston |
| Salt water swimming pools on 12:37 - Apr 23 by LazyFan |
If the water gets in your eyes (which it will) then you eyes can sting for a while.
No thanks.
I swim in proper indoor swimming pools, where I can do it safely (lifeguard present) and efficiently. If you want to swim for fun, then we have proper water parks, with nice rapids and so on.
If you want to learn how to swim against heavy waves as the sea can sometimes do to you and also tough undercurrents, there are specialist pools for that too (with lifeguards).
Treat large amounts of water with respect; it can be dangerous. |
I'm with you mate. Can't express my feelings well enough to tell ya of the joy at installing a shower. | |
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| Salt water swimming pools on 22:38 - Apr 23 with 2963 views | sevenhoop |
| Salt water swimming pools on 14:08 - Apr 22 by Gloucs_R |
Thanks all
This is what I'm slightly concerned about. I'm a little bit worried that the saltiness will affect the kids skin mixed with sun cream. [Post edited 22 Apr 2023 14:09]
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It’s horrible if you want the refreshing feel of a fresh water pool |  | | |
| Salt water swimming pools on 22:56 - Apr 23 with 2934 views | ericgen34 |
I have a salt water pool and it is much nicer than chlorine pools. It's 4kg salt per cubic meter of water so you don't feel it is salted. It feels very slightly salted to the taste. It doesn't sting the eyes as chlorine does and feels pretty much like clear water.
It works by electrolysis, so the salt gets converted to very volatile chlorine so there is no chlorine in the pool as the sterilising happens in the electrolysis chamber, but that means the filtering/electrolysis must be on a long more time than chlorinated water, about half in hours that of the temperature, eg 15hours if the water is at 30 degrees. It tends to be difficult to prevent it turning when it goes above 31,32 degrees.
It is overall the main way new pools are built around here. |  | | |
| Salt water swimming pools on 23:42 - Apr 23 with 2892 views | Jigsore |
I have a PPOC but can't say I have much experience with salt pools.
The only time I swam in one was at a Croatian resort, I hated it to be fair, my hair felt grim and it was so cold my nob changed colour. Considering the proximity it was probably straight from the adriatic...
Anyone know if the level of salt would change your buoyancy and therefore potentially your strokes? |  |
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| Salt water swimming pools on 23:44 - Apr 23 with 2890 views | thame_hoops |
| Salt water swimming pools on 22:56 - Apr 23 by ericgen34 |
I have a salt water pool and it is much nicer than chlorine pools. It's 4kg salt per cubic meter of water so you don't feel it is salted. It feels very slightly salted to the taste. It doesn't sting the eyes as chlorine does and feels pretty much like clear water.
It works by electrolysis, so the salt gets converted to very volatile chlorine so there is no chlorine in the pool as the sterilising happens in the electrolysis chamber, but that means the filtering/electrolysis must be on a long more time than chlorinated water, about half in hours that of the temperature, eg 15hours if the water is at 30 degrees. It tends to be difficult to prevent it turning when it goes above 31,32 degrees.
It is overall the main way new pools are built around here. |
I look after a swimming pool in Knightsbridge. They use silver copper ionisation , which is amazing. No smell or taste and it’s like swimming in freshwater. Bacterial results are always clear. Probably the way forward | | | |
| Salt water swimming pools on 04:09 - Apr 24 with 2841 views | SydneyRs |
| Salt water swimming pools on 23:44 - Apr 23 by thame_hoops |
I look after a swimming pool in Knightsbridge. They use silver copper ionisation , which is amazing. No smell or taste and it’s like swimming in freshwater. Bacterial results are always clear. Probably the way forward |
Similar system to what I converted our pool here in Sydney to a couple of years ago. Works very well and maintenance is a lot easier now.
We have a lot of trees around our place so get plenty of debris after windy days, so I used to have trouble with the pool going green and having to fix it up. Much easier now with this system and a robot vacuum to get rid of leaves off the bottom. | | | |
| Salt water swimming pools on 09:16 - Apr 24 with 2755 views | TheChef |
| Salt water swimming pools on 12:39 - Apr 22 by thame_hoops |
They are very common abroad, much cheaper to maintain than chlorine. I remember my kids jumping in one in Malta without realising it was salt Water. Gave my son the shock of his life. Personally, I don’t like them, bad enough coming out of the sea and having all the salt dry on your skin. |
Yeah I remember as a kid encountering one in France - was a real disappointment! |  |
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