[villagetinker]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

We have a newer salt water pool installed and maintained by T&D (for $112.70 per month). I have watched what the pool guy does for maintenance and it would be very easy for us to do it ourselves if we lived in the Villages full time. The only tricky part with a salt water pool is that the salt chlorination process creates alkinality, so the water PH needs to be balanced with muric acid. Muric acid is nasty stuff (before it is added to the pool and diluted) and needs to be handled very carefully.

I agree with tophcfa, I had a bad experience with Muratic acid, even though this was kept in its original container, vapors leaked out, and damaged equipment, drywall and concrete that were below the container. Be very careful how you store this stuff.