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Old 07-29-2021, 09:02 PM
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Salt pool - roof top solar heated. There is an electric heater for the pool but we never use it.

We started with a tab pool and I just converted it to salt a few months ago. I do all my own pool maintenance. Balancing is much easier with salt - brushing and vacuuming are still the same.

You can heat and cool the pool with solar. There will be 2 maybe 3 months during the “winter” when you won’t be able to maintain a comfortable water temp.

That’s when we use our above ground spa. We drain it in March and refill it in November. The first year in our current house we kept the spa going all year but never really used it outside of the few months where solar was unable to maintain 87 degrees in the pool.
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