SWIMMING POOL AND HOT TUB MAINTENANCE
Learn how to clean and maintain your saltwater or chlorine swimming pool. Use Pool Calculator’s tools to keep your swimming pool and hot tub chemicals balanced and cloudy pool water clear!
Swimming Pool Water Testing Basics
Everyone enjoys having a clean and clear pool, but maintaining perfectly balanced pool chemistry can be a challenge. It is necessary to learn what each pool test means and why it is important in keeping your pool in perfect shape. We will cover four components of pool chemistry: free chlorine, pH, total alkalinity and cyanuric acid.
When to Close your Swimming Pool
There are many good reasons to go through a formal pool cleaning process every season. Winterizing your pool correctly protects it from damage, gets the water in good condition for the months it is shut down, and will make it much easier and less expensive to re-open the following summer. Assuming you live in a climate where it is important to winterize your pool, here’s some guidelines to help you decide when to close your pool.
Five Things Chlorine Will Kill in your Swimming Pool
There are is a lot of misunderstanding about how chlorine works to kill harmful contaminants in pool water, as well is misconceptions about what type of contaminants chlorine will kill efficiently. In this article, we cover 5 important things free chlorine will kill in your swimming pool or hot tub water.
How Often Should You Test Swimming Pool Chlorine?
In general, chlorine levels should be tested at least twice per week. However, the answer to this question depends heavily on how often your swimming pool is used, who uses your pool, and weather events that may introduce a large amount of fresh water into your pool.
How to Test, Raise, and Lower Swimming Pool Chlorine
Chlorine is the most important chemical when it comes to maintaining sparkling clean water that is safe to swim in. Chlorine sanitizes your pool water by attacking and killing harmful microorganisms, called contaminates, that could lead adverse health consequences. Therefore, it is critical to know how to test the chlorine in your pool or hot tub, as well as what to do when your chlorine levels are outside recommended ranges.
The Relationship Between Pool Chlorine and pH
The degree to which chlorine is effective in sanitizing your pool by breaking down contaminants is highly correlated to the degree to which pH is kept in balance.
In this article, we dive into the relationship between chlorine and pH, and how pH of water changes the effectiveness of chlorine.
The Relationship Between Swimming Pool Chlorine and Cyanuric Acid (CYA)
Cyanuric acid stabilizes free chlorine but also buffers the water which reduces the chlorine’s sanitizing ability. In this article, we dive into the relationship between chlorine and cyanuric acid, and how cyanuric acid stabilizes the amount of free chlorine in your pool.
How to Winterize your Inground Swimming Pool
Winterizing your pool doesn’t need to be difficult. You need to plan on spending a few hours over the course of about a week to go through all of the steps.
Types of Swimming Pool Chlorine Sanitizers
Sanitizers come in liquid, powder, and tablet form, and many pool owners have questions about the differences between them. In this article, we will get your questions answered.