Can You Use Table Salt in a Saltwater Pool?
Looked all over town yesterday for pool salt and every store nearby is sold out, so I topped up what little I had left and now I'm sitting just under the target level on my salt chlorine generator. I've got a full bag of regular iodized table salt in the pantry, a half-bag of water softener pellets in the garage, and some leftover ice-melt from winter. The generator is still reading low and I don't want to wait a week for an online order to arrive.
I'm wondering if any of those substitutes will actually work in a pinch, or if dumping the wrong stuff in will trash the salt cell. The replacement cells aren't cheap, so I really don't want to find out the hard way. What actually makes pool-grade salt different from the other stuff sitting in my garage?…more
I'm wondering if any of those substitutes will actually work in a pinch, or if dumping the wrong stuff in will trash the salt cell. The replacement cells aren't cheap, so I really don't want to find out the hard way. What actually makes pool-grade salt different from the other stuff sitting in my garage?…more