Assuming an annual chemical expense fixed at $500 per successful year in Colorado for sanitation chemicals (even though chlorine has gone up 30 per cent two years running), no factor is used for time saved spent backwashing on an average every six weeks instead of every two weeks, time and mileage spent to acquire the chemical or the smooth silky mountain spring water you will experience in the pool, the primary reason people buy Ecosmarte, aside from not handling or breathing the chemical which can be avoided by purchasing a saltwater chlorine generator. I believe health due diligence on a generator would easily demonstrate sodium is harder on the people and the equipment than a properly managed chlorine pool.

With an Ecosmarte system you will purchase 50 lbs of calcium flake per year average, $45, a set of two inch copper bars for $125 every fourth year, maybe five in Colorado, three gallons of muriatic acid for the twice yearly cell clean and maintenance adjustment on the CO₂ pH injection, and an occasional qt bottle of Algaecide 40,50 or 60 ($20)-- at least one half of the customers avoid this. Two 20lb CO2 cylinder recharges per year should be favored. Use of even a non-chlorine shock $50 can occur with Ecosmarte as you get complacent and three weeks go buy without touching your pool. I can personally run the pool with less chemical, none noticeable to the swimmer, than many of the best pool service companies in America and assure you their is no lower maintenance or operating cost option the the current world class platform of an Ecosmarte Automated System supplemented with CO2 ph control and the glass pack filter. No chlorine pool will give you the mirror quality look of ECOsmarte's pool either, assuming you stick with conventional sand.