Before
spending money on a purification device that utilizes salt, you should
define what you're hoping to accomplish. You will wind up with sodium,
(NA), salt (NACL) and chlorine absorbing through your skin as well as
increasing the corrosion on all equipment and appliances. Salt and chlorine
are harmful to many people and certainly the environment.
POOL
HOME WATER
Those people looking to get out of chemicals by purchasing a salt system
for their pool must be aware they will still be using CYANIDE based cyanuric
acid (stabilizer or conditioner), muriatic acid, algaecide and chlorine
shock. The heated spa water will have a noxious odor and both the pool
and spa will contain the salt, sodium and measurable chlorine residual.
You will actually exaggerate your hardwater or scale issues on the pool
and water features with a salt system. Most importantly, while a salt
generator initially should cost $900 to $1,100, the replacement cell will
cost $500 to $850 every third year, best case making the six year cost
of a salt system (NOT including the chemicals) the most expensive option.
ECOsmarte requires copper replacement only every 3 to 5 years for $150.
If your objective is to get out of chemicals and lower your operating
cost, ECOsmarte offers (a slightly more expensive system initially) the
only method to sanitize your pool without chemicals and after 15 years
remains the only creditable non chemical option with 6 day toll free support
at 1-800-ION-SWIM (466-7946)
A Dallas television station has documented the
salt damage to your pool in as little as one year.
A salt based water treatment system for the home exchanges
healthy, beneficial calcium for health and environmentally damaging sodium
(
MayoClinic).
A salt system will not remove chlorine on municipal source water or protect
you from groundwater chemicals if you are on a well. If your main concern
is dishwater, laundry or shower water, you can own the ECOsmarte and get
all of the benefits: Chlorine removal, odor removal, iron removal, groundwater
protection, adequate soap, no scale build-up and bacteria control without
the maintenance, operating cost or health and environmental concerns presented
by a salt based system. ECOsmarte treats all of your water, hot and cold,
indoor and outdoor, at a very low operating cost.
