the website intec-america is selling copper disinfection systems for swimming pools and I am worried that swimming in copper can absorb through skin and be harmful. I wonder how long they've been in business selling them.
Copper systems, or better known as ionizer systems, introduce the pool water to copper as it works along with chlorine to sanitize your water. The copper is safe, and will not cause any more green hair than regular chlorine is. Copper systems are cheaper because the allow less chlorine to be added, and are very easy in maintenance. Copper systems also help keep algae away, as copper is a safe and easy way to kill it. If you're looking for a cheap and easy way to sanitize pool water, copper systems are the way to go. They are no more harmful to your body than swimming in a chlorine pool. The copper is safe and easy.
confident you could sweat interior the pool. Sweat is made out of glands on your epidermis once you overheat to kick back you down. So whilst swimming interior the pool given which you're already interior the water you're taking somewhat longer to overheat. So swimming breakstroke (breaststroke?) is probably no longer stressful sufficient so you might interrupt out right into a sweat.
Copper pipes are extensively used in plumbing , particularly in areas where the water supply is a little corrosive eg Gulf countries. Whereas copper salts are indeed poisonous, the risks in pool/domestic plumbing are minimal. Compounds formed on the internal surface of the pipes are tenacious (insoluble, tough, impenetrable)oxides which prevent further corrosion occurring and seal the metal surface from the water.
I would stay far away, I don't know how long intec has been selling it or what effect it has on skin, actually all of my online research indicates that no one knows what it does to your skin, though copper levels in your body that are out of balance can cause premature heart failure, but copper can also destroy a pool... First of all when copper oxidizes it turns green, no one wants to swim in a green pool. Copper oxidation accelerates in a pool due to chlorine and low or high ph. This oxidized copper causes green stains on blonde hair, and green stains on the plaster layer of gunite pools. Your water will have to remain perfectly balanced in order to prevent damaging copper oxidation... and it still might happen. You will then have to chelate the water to remove it (expensive). You may even have to drain and refill which may cause your plaster to chip off. If it stained the walls green an acid wash might fix it... but if it doesn't you have to re-plaster or live with green stains. re-plastering starts at 2000 dollars and takes forever. I've personally serviced a few of these copper systems. They still get algae, they still need a secondary sanitizer, they're initial cost is high, and they can destroy your pool. My advice no matter what you've heard is a salt system. Salt pools are in fact chlorine pools, but the chlorine is regenerative. You will save a significant amount of money over the life of your pool, all without handling dangerous chlorine directly. Your tap water probably contains as much chlorine as is required to disinfect a swimming pool. So go for chlorine without ionization... or better yet saltwater chlorine.
