Thinking about switching to a salt system, talk me into it or out of it

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When we first moved down from Michigan I just kept dosing liquid chlorine by hand because that's what the previous owner did and I didn't know any better. Fourteen years later I'm still doing it and honestly it's fine, but my shoulders are getting tired of hauling jugs and a buddy at the pool store keeps after me about converting to salt.

Before I spend the money I'd rather hear from people who've actually lived with one. Does it really cut down on the hand dosing as much as they claim, and what's maintenance on the cell actually look like a few years in. I keep hearing mixed things about screen cages and salt corrosion too, which worries me some since that's half the reason I moved down here. Good luck with it, whatever you all tell me.

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Can't speak to salt at all, Chuck, I am still hand dosing liquid chlorine same as you fourteen years in, mine is twenty five seasons at this point and the binder has every jug and gallon count logged going back to the start. No screen cage down here on Long Island either so that part of the corrosion worry does not apply to me the way it does to you fellas down south. Interested to see what the salt owners say though, my shoulders know exactly what you mean.