Looking for Answers about Intex Ultra-Frame All-in-One 16' x 48" Backyard Swimming Pool with Saltwater Pool Filter System?

i got it at sam's, morton pool salt, its like $6 for 40lbs, works pretty good

I could not find the salt at WM so I went to Lowes and purchased the salt pellets 99.8% pure. It disolved quite fast and is doing the job just fine.

The Garden Center has the salt for the pools

People, keep in mind one of the reasons these pools can be offered so inexpensively, is because the filters are not very sophisticated . Do yourself a favor and buy the salination pump offered by Walmart/Intek and replace the one that came with your pool. They are great and will filter the water in these sizes of pools wonderfully. Best of all no chemicals!!

It filters 2000 gallons of water an hour.

NO!!!! And mine broke as soon as I tried to put it together!! But you can order a platform from the Intex store on line. I ordered one, haven't got it yet. I'll let you know how sturdy it is afterwards, as for now you gotta try not to shake to much when your climbing it!!

It has a very small platform that I always step around. It's a little wobbly. It's not great but it does the job (for now).

No, none of the Intex pools are as easy as they state on the box. The reason is because you need to have PERFECTLY level ground to put the pool on. But after you have perfectly level ground, the setup of the pools is pretty close to what they claim on the box, as long as you are fairly experienced in putting things together.

Here are some pics. Hope they helped.

we have also used the bulk salt- just added to pool during the heat of the day so that it would dissolve quicker. I was able to find table salt in 25 lb bags at our local grocery store.

42-44 inches of water

Nope, it does not taste like the water in the ocean, which is realy salty. It is just a tiny bit salty, which is better than swallowing chemicals :-)

You can if you want...but be prepared for VERY COLD water unless you heated it first. My advice is to set it up before anyone gets in it. This will ensure that the pump is working properly and that the salt is dissolved thouroughly so that the chlorinator will do its job at start up. This process will take at least 24 hours...and plan on 48 hours if you have not added the correct amount of salt. Also, last note. if you can buy NON-pelletized salt the process of disolving the the salt will be much faster and easier on you.

Good luck!

The system works like this. It takes the salt that is in the water, and using (safely) electic cells in the pump causing the water to naturaly clorinate. It does not smell or taste like clorine, it is just a natural process. I worked for a plant here and they use the same process. I guess the only reason I really understood the process was because I worked at a plant in which we clorinated the water in the same manner. It has a timer in which you set it to clorinate (2-6 hrs depending on the climate where you live). That's it! Oh you will have to change the filer now and then, but not as much as you would with a pool that you put the chemicals in.