Yep, Im glad this one wasnt concrete, Imagine heating a pool this size!!!!

Beema, what is a mineral pool?

Ours is salt, but the salt water goes back into a grid thing and is turned into natural chlorine, then pumped back to the pool, so I guess its 50/50. It also does some oxygen thing.. I dont know much about it, thats Ad's domain!!

I assume mineral would be better, and is it hard to convert??
I have a brochure on it somewhere, but you basically add minerals to the pool rather than chemicals, it is apparently better for allergy sufferers I guess because there are no chemicals being use, the water can be used to irrigate gardens, so when it rains you could pump excess water into a tank, rather than out to stormwater or sewerage, it is a softer feeling in the water, not as harsh as Chlorine, reduces the bacteria levels in pools. You can convert yours over, it depends on what sort of pool you have, and I think that the pool may need to be drained, and you would need a different chlorinator. We have a sand filter and I think that we could keep that. But I will have a dig for the brochure and see what I can find

I love my salt pool over a chlorine one, it is really refreshing

Wo don't use a heater for our the solar blanket does an awesome job by itself I have to take it off in the hotter weather because the water gets too hot, but then again we don't use ours all year round.