The memes are already circulating. It's a special type of algae, found in Georgia, that can only be in that pool because it was dumped their on purpose by Democrats, and they're forced to peroxide the pool.

Pay no attention to the fact it's >90F and that's how pools work, especially when you kick start it with algae strips from the pipes that you didn't pump out to waste.

Stupidity aside... I run a peroxide pool, pretty nice, better than chlorine. Better on the skin. So if you're homeless, dive in. Now's the time.

Pretty good.

The math on the peroxide is still wild. Not the 550 gallons of chlorine, 140 gallons instead. Going to need it every 2-3 days until it goes back under 90. If you don't have bottom jets and another 70 gallons of clarifier it's just going to be a giant white cloud of dead algae.

Expensive status symbol as far as pools go. You can't even swim in it.

Is that the same as salt? Having been in both kinds the salt is night and day better but apparently more expensive.

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-16 10:27 PM | Reply

No, a salt pool is a chlorine pool. There's an electrolysis bit added to the system which converts the salt to chlorine over time.

If you mix peroxide and chlorine the chemical reaction neutralizes each other and then they don't anything. Overall there's quite a few advantages to running peroxide. It feels nicer, it doesn't smell like chlorine, the shock time is 30 minutes instead of 24 hours before you can swim again, running costs are about the same, you use one gallon of peroxide where you would use for liquid chlorine gallons, there's no acid build up like you get with chlorine pucks, and if you have family members with chlorine sensitivities it's perfect.

Alsosalt is definitely cheaper to run than liquid chlorine. My neighbor has a small fiberglass pool with a salt system. They add three bags of salt a year from the hardware store. It's really cheap. The downside is it's really bad for your metal components anywhere in the system. They will corrode like hell the moment salt scrubs off that protective film off of the stainless bits.

ty. Next for me is a modest lazy river design. Sculpted in Fusion360 CAD, I'll pre-form every piece of rebar myself... along with a helper from home depot, it's a lot of rebar U shapes.

That was a major problem that the reflecting pool recoating patched at least. Ground shifts, it cracks the slabs forming the base of the pool. Water penetrates the cracks, gets to the rebar, and the rebar begins rusting, rust replaces the metal at 3.5x the volume which causes more concrete fracturing. Now you have to replace entire sections of pool, or the entire pool.

or you coat it, kick the can to the next guy, and pretend there is nothing horribly going on under that pool.

They'd have been better off bulldozing the pool and starting over... but then it wouldn't be a gilded age.