Salt water pool vs Chlorine pool? Pool decks?

[OutofOffice]

Did you use the Shellock pavers? How have they held for staining dirt and such. We are doing same in Ivory color.

[stank1964]

The salt system is carefree. Hire a pool company, set it and forget it. We have Artistic granite lock pavers under a no see mesh pool cage and our pavers never, yes, I said never get hot on the feet. The same pavers outside the pool cage doors get so hot you can’t stand on them when they are in full sunshine. While you’re at it, add a heat pump, that way you can use the pool in “winter” if you so choose. We run the heater as needed based on the weather forecast. If it not going to be in the 80s for anything less than 3 days, we don’t run the heater, it’s just too cold even with the pool set to 85 degrees. Heating the pool is costing us about $2 a day.

[stank1964]

Originally Posted by OutofOffice

Did you use the Shellock pavers? How have they held for staining dirt and such. We are doing same in Ivory color.

When it comes to shell lock vs. granite lock, choose granite lock. They cut much cleaner.

[City Guy997S]

Originally Posted by stank1964

The salt system is carefree. Hire a pool company, set it and forget it. We have Artistic granite lock pavers under a no see mesh pool cage and our pavers never, yes, I said never get hot on the feet. The same pavers outside the pool cage doors get so hot you can’t stand on them when they are in full sunshine. While you’re at it, add a heat pump, that way you can use the pool in “winter” if you so choose. We run the heater as needed based on the weather forecast. If it not going to be in the 80s for anything less than 3 days, we don’t run the heater, it’s just too cold even with the pool set to 85 degrees. Heating the pool is costing us about $2 a day.

Everything is spot on except you aren't heating the pool for $2 a day.

[stank1964]

Originally Posted by City Guy997S

Everything is spot on except you aren't heating the pool for $2 a day.

You’ve seen my electric bill? You have no idea about the particulars of my situation, but you somehow know that what I say is not the God’s honest truth. Thanks for another great no value added post.

To enlighten you, here is a little more info.

The FPL app shows consumption per day. Our heater is largely brand new, installed in 2020. On average, with the pool heater on, it’s about $2 a day. Like I said, we only run it when the weather forecast indicates that we could get into the pool over a period of days most of the time. Typically, we allow about 1 day to get it back into the 85 degree range.- unless the pool water temp is in the 60s like it was this past “winter”. I come to understand that our pool is large for Florida at 13,000 gallons.