Types of Filters

Salt chlorine generators

Pool Service Tips

• Be sure to keep your pool water properly balanced at all times.  Having the proper pH total alkalinity and calcium hardness level will help your sanitizer work to its optimum.
   

• Brush your pool walls and floor once a week to help keep the surface smooth and free of algae.
   

• Always remember to check your skimmer and pump baskets on a regular basis.  By keeping your baskets clean, you will be assured in having better filtration.
   

• Did you know some of the most common places for a pool to leak are in the mouth of a skimmer where the concrete meets the plastic skimmer box?  This can be easily be fixed by the homeowner using pool putty available at our Retail Store.
   

• Always add diatomaceous earth (“DE”) to your DE filter after backwashing.  Operating a DE filter without DE powder will clog the filter grids and cause your pressure to rise too quickly.
   

• A manual cleaning by opening the tank and hosing your grids mid-season is highly recommended.
   

• Sand filters should be backwashed once a week or after a good vacuuming.
   

• To get the best results from your sand filter, sand should be changed at least every 3 to 5 years.

id you know that you no longer have to rely on pool chemicals to sanitize your swimming pool? 

Saline pools employs common table salt as a natural, gentle cleanser. 

Read on, or better yet, call Colony Pool Service to learn more about its benefits and maintenance.

A pool would have common table salt poured—several hundred pounds for an average 22,000 to 25,000 gallon pool into the water. 

A salt chlorine generator installed within the pool’s mechanical system then separates the salt molecules (by means of electrolysis) into sodium and chlorine. 

The chlorine dissolves instantaneously in the water to form hypochlorous acid, a gentle cleaning agent. 

After the hypochlorous acid destroys the microorganisms, the sodium and chlorine revert back to salt, and the process starts all over again.

Benefits

Unlike seawater, which has a salt content of about 35,000 parts per million (ppm), saline pools contain between 2,400 and 6,000 ppm—less than a third to a little more than half the saltiness of human tears. 

The water is very mild, and at levels below 3,500 ppm nearly impossible for human taste buds to detect.  Many compare the experience of swimming in a saline pool to that of taking a shower in soft water: smooth and refreshing, and not drying to the skin or damaging to hair or clothes.  Saline is easy on the environment.

Installation

Colony Pool Service can install a salt chlorine generator, even if you’re just retrofitting an existing pool.  We have experience with saline systems. 

Saltwater pools can be any size or shape you want—just make sure to seal porous stone (such as limestone and sandstone) in and around the pool to avoid corrosion.  In high concentrations, salt might have an adverse effect on certain types of metal, such as chrome, which is often used for pool ladders, handrails, and underwater light fixture.  Metal corrosion has not occurred in any of its saline installations because the level of salt is usually too low to be harmful.  Make sure to select a generator suited to your needs.  Factors that must be considered include the size of your pool, how many people usually enjoy it at once, and how many hours a day it is used.