Considering Adding Water Softener Salt to Pool...

[Poolsean]

The YPS is used with granular salt (food grade) and may cause staining if you add it and leave it undissolved on a plaster finish. If you turn your pump on, add the salt to the deep end of the pool and brush the granular salt into the main drain, you will not have a staining problem.

Regarding Salt levels: You should not have any fear of salty tasting water until you get into the high 3000's. I'm at 3800 ppm this weekend and hardly taste the salt, but you do notice a salt taste, just not undesirable. Remember, the ocean is about 35,000 ppm, almost ten times higher than a normal SCG recommended levels.
Your body is even higher than 4000 ppm. How does this compare? Remember the salty taste of your tear when you see a sappy ole' movie with your significant other?
Contact lens saline solution/eye drops are typically around 6000 ppm.
The higher you can bear, the more comfort you will achieve from the added salt. Your kids will appreciate the it too! No more red devil eyes!

[psbailey]

Thanks, Sean. Regarding putting the salt in the pool, that's exactly what I did with good results. I put it in the deep end and used a brush to push it to the drain. In my case, the salt dissolved quickly.

I was noticing another benefit this morning: with the increased bouyancy in the water, my Polaris 380 can now climb walls like Spider-Man! It took no time for it to clean the pool. It just climbed and went all over the place. Before, it struggled to climb the walls in the deep end and I had to brush debris to the floor. Not anymore, though. I like it!

Paul