IzzyB
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Salt or chlorine pool? What a wonderful quandry to have.
LOL sorry :topic:
I will say if a water park ever went salt water, they would have my business for life
Salt or chlorine pool? What a wonderful quandry to have.
It would be cool if they theme the drop box itself as Sacrificial chambers to the volcano lords. But yea the colorings of that yellow and red slides are atrocious and really ugly.
I think so too. Though the colors stand out now, they will probably blend in nicely.I think they're going for lava/magma with these color slides, does anyone else see that? Maybe that side of the volcano will be where the eruption goes considering it looks like that side of the volcano is "blown out".
EDIT: I just saw other people's comments about it looking like lava and I agree with those, sorry for the repetition :horse:
Obviously your name says it all. But I disagree a ton with the skin and eyes thing and I can find a ton of articles to back me up, the below is just one.
Going Chlorine Free: The Pros and Cons of Salt Water Pools
We had a Chlorine pool with all this fancy stuff to prevent from putting a ton of Chlorine in, which worked, but it was still more harsh on our eyes than a salt water pool. But commercial pools tend to not have all the fancy add ons and our eyes are killed in almost all chlorine if not all chlorine pools I have been in at hotels. We never have any issues with salt water pools.
As for the feeder thing, I imagine in a SWG pool they are not used much as you can keep a salt water pool balanced easier than a Chlorine pool. Which is why at hotels when it is salt water I don't smell or feel the effects of a traditional chlorine pool. I doubt the feeders are used that much.
ETA: My daughter has never been wrong. I thought she was crazy the one time because she would only go in the one pool at this resort we were staying out. Only to find out later it was the only SWG pool on property. I thought they were all Chlorine.
Obviously your name says it all. But I disagree a ton with the skin and eyes thing and I can find a ton of articles to back me up, the below is just one.
Going Chlorine Free: The Pros and Cons of Salt Water Pools
We had a Chlorine pool with all this fancy stuff to prevent from putting a ton of Chlorine in, which worked, but it was still more harsh on our eyes than a salt water pool. But commercial pools tend to not have all the fancy add ons and our eyes are killed in almost all chlorine if not all chlorine pools I have been in at hotels. We never have any issues with salt water pools.
As for the feeder thing, I imagine in a SWG pool they are not used much as you can keep a salt water pool balanced easier than a Chlorine pool. Which is why at hotels when it is salt water I don't smell or feel the effects of a traditional chlorine pool. I doubt the feeders are used that much.
ETA: My daughter has never been wrong. I thought she was crazy the one time because she would only go in the one pool at this resort we were staying out. Only to find out later it was the only SWG pool on property. I thought they were all Chlorine.
Is pool salt water the same as sea water? How many water parks in Florida have salted water? I have never heard of such a thing.
Yes I have a license that would allow me to build commercial pools. My company doesn't really get too much into pool building. We mostly do pool remodeling and a lot of repairs. We work on everything pool related and specialize in pool automation and controls. There are a lot of pools in Florida and a lot of pool companies that are not licensed or insured so a lot of false information goes around. I haven't done too much with water parks other than a few YMCA's that have a few slides and splash pads.You must build pool systems Pete? I mean, "titanium plates coated with ruthenium"??? I have never even heard of the word ruthenium! You certainly don't sound like a pool cleaner!
Follow the link in the tweet below for the picture gallery. Nice picture from a pool area in Cabana Bay giving an Idea of what you will see from the ground.
Also WildGravity travels has some new construction update photos, again follow the link in the tweet for more.
My favorite is seeing what appear to be the beginning of the outer skin of rock work for the volcano! Someone correct me if I am wrong though!
I was really just trying to say that in a commercial application there is no difference between using a salt system and a ORP system with a liquid feeder or just an ORP system with a liquid feeder. Sodium chloride is the main chemical being used in both and they are outputting it the same, the only difference is that there are extra dissolved solids in the water (salt) and one is making the chlorine and injecting it while the other is just injecting it. That article is mostly accurate for residential applications other than the softness of the water and keeping chlorine at lower levels. Just adding salt to water doesn't make it softer. A water softener removes calcium from water in exchange for salt. In pools you are just adding salt to the water increasing the dissolved solids and it does nothing to the calcium levels of the water. How gentle water is on the eyes and skin has little to do with the chlorine levels and more with PH and harness levels unless the chlorine is off the charts.
For residential pools salt systems can be great and make me a lot of money. I just always try and educate the consumer before we install one so they know what they are getting. Many salesmen out there over sell the systems and make promises that the pool is chlorine free. If you do want to keep lower chlorine levels in a pool check out UV systems or even Nature2.
I've installed, maintained, repaired, and removed many commercial salt systems. They work great at what they do (generate chlorine) but the salesman told the hotel or community that it did so much more. When three years are up and the cells start going bad, usually it's can we just go back to the old way since there really isn't a difference in commercial applications.
Sorry to bring up an old point of debate on the this thread, but a trip to my local waterparks opening weekend made me think of it. My local, slightly small, waterpark in the off season this year painted and themed all the slide supports. The park is Hawaiian themed, and now all the supports resemble palm trees and large bamboo stalks. Many of these slides and supports have been up for almost 10 years. The effect is actually really well done, especially for a small family owned park. I'll be curious to see if we see Universal go this direction at all.
My simple support theming solution.
Kind of like what Scott mentioned a while back. It would be a great way to hide those supports.
Yeah, I took this pic yesterday.
And I am going on record as saying those black, yellow, and red slides, I believe, will be connected to those Drop Chambers (or what ever the hell they're called) starting inside the volcano.