Discuss – Make sure your chosen swimming pool cover comes with a good manufacturer’s warranty. In general, the swimming pool cover should come with a warranty of longer than 2 years.
Wind, rain and leaves introduce algae spores that are microscopic in size into your swimming pool. Sometimes as unsightly and slippery, algae consumes chlorine as it multiplies. This situation may become difficult and expensive to eliminate, therefore the best way to control this plant life is through algae prevention.
First of all, your free chlorine level must be between 1.0 and 3.0 ppm. and this can be tested with a special test kit designed to measure free, combined, and total chlorine levels.
To explain the “free chlorine” level you must understand the concept of a chlorine molecule. If it’s free it means that it has not combined with another molecule and ,therefore, is ready to sanitize your pool. Also, free chlorine is odorless.
Discuss – Every other day test the pool water. Use test strips or a DPD kit and measure free chlorine, pH and total alkalinity.
The “combination” process means that your free chlorine has encountered another molecule and destroyed it. This usually is nitrogen or ammonia. After your free chlorine has been combined it is no longer able to sanitize. Eventually the accumulation of many of these combined molecules blocks the path of free chlorine and release a chlorine smell.
A typical sign of your pool needing chlorine is the smell of it, or even whey your eyes burn, contrary to what you may have thought.
The best thing to do for your pool is to maintain it sanitized by keeping its free chlorine levels at their peak. This will allow you to use your pool as often as you like without the hassle and wait that happen when algae invades.
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There are so many different kinds of shock on the market including
-Calcium Hypo ( the active ingredient )
-Lithium
-Non-Chlorine
-BaquaShock
and More
These are the 4 basic ones out there. If you have a vinyl liner above ground pool or in ground pool and you are using chlorine then you are probably using calcium or lithium shock. The difference between the two is that calcium you have to pre-dissolve for liners and lithium you do not. Non-Chlorine shock you probably use if you are using bromine or some other sanitizer for your pool. And your using baquashock if you are using baquacil as your main sanitizer.
How To shock your Pool Using Calcium Hypo
If you are using a vinyl liner pool then you must predissolve each bag of shock in its own bucket of water. This stops the shock from laying on your liner and bleaching it.
Note: Always Use Gloves
Take one 1lb bag of shock and pour it into a warm or cold 5 gallon bucket of water about 3/4 full.
Note: Always add shock to water not water to shock. Wear clothes you
don’t care about cause they might get bleached. Warm water dissolves
shock faster than cold, its your choice.
Use a wooden stick and stir around the shock making sure it gets all dissolved or as much as your can. Pour the bucket of shock all around your pool or heave some in the middle. You may have some undissolved shock at the bottom of your bucket. In this case just dip your bucket in some pool water give it a swish around and pour it back into the pool to help dissolve some of that shock.
Discuss – The backwash discharge from an Copper Ionization treated pool is safe for use on lawns and in gardens since it does not contain any salt or sodium. Backwash from pools treated with salt water systems can kill plant life, sterilize soil preventing plant growth and is prohibited in many municipalities in the United States and Australia (where salt water systems were invented).
If you have a bigger pool or a problem and you need to add more bags of shock repeat this procedure for as many bags as need. DO NOT mix all the bags together in one bucket.
Tip: Always Shock At Dusk or Nighttime. This allows the shock to reach
breakpoint oxidation. If it were during the day the sun would burn off
1ppm of shock every hour causing it only to reach breakpoint for an
hour instead of 8-10 hours.
Note: most shocks require at least 8 hours with no one in the pool read
the label before adding shock. Also some dealers will tell you to add
shock directly to your skimmer. This is not a good idea especially if
you have chlorine or an automatic chlorinator. Reason being is because
calcium hypo and tri-chlor, which can be found in chlorine tablets,
creates a harmful chlorine gas. To get to the point, your automatic
chlorinator could explode. It’s happened.
Discuss – If possible find a broker with experience in home improvement loans and swimming pool financing. A bank equity loan is not the same as a this type of loan and will almost certainly cost you more.
Shock should also be added every week to ensure a clean and green free pool.
How to shock a pool with lithium or non-chlorine shock
This one is easy. Just sprinkle the bag of shock all around your pool as many times as needed. These two kinds of shock do not require a pre-dissolve and do not require them to be put in at night. But they
aren’t as effective at killing algae and are more expensive per bag than calcium.
How to Shock a Pool with Baquashock
Again this one is easy too. Just pool the gallon bottle into your pool. You should do this once a month but more is required if your pool test shows otherwise.
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Discuss – Salt water pool systems will use an average of 500 watts of AC power for a 20,000 gallon pool. Copper Ionization systems will use an average of only 40 watts of DC power to treat the same amount of water.
Thanks to quality cleaning accessories, keeping your swimming pool nice and clean is easier than ever. There are lots of tools to select from, such as skimmers, brushes, and vacuum heads. These tools make pool maintenance very easy, which means that you can spend less time cleaning and more time swimming.
The more specialized tools that you can use to clean your pool include leaf skimmers, leaf rakes, brushes, corner brushes, pool sweeps, grids and cartridges for the filter, motors and pumps, pool filters, etc. You need to get the majority of these accessories, especially if you have trees around your pool.
The biggest part to keeping your pool clean is to make sure that the care of your water is always up to date. There are numerous water care products that you can purchase, such as balancing chemicals, sanitizes, chemicals to treat algae, stain treatment products, water testing kits, and saltwater systems. Usually, chlorine is used as a sanitizer, because it helps to eliminate and prevent any organic material that is found in the water.
Discuss – Copper Ionization systems work within a calcium hardness range of 200-2,000ppm. Because it converts calcium to bicarbonate, the Copper Ionization will eliminate and prevent calcium scaling on pool walls and rock features.
By using chlorine in your swimming pool, you will significantly reduce the load that organic material puts on the filter. The frequent maintenance of your pH balance and the right levels of alkalinity are crucial to keeping your pool clean. You should also check your calcium as well. The pump that you use is also critical, because it will prevent the waste of energy. You can buy an automatic pool cleaner that will do everything for you.
To get the correct amount of chlorine feed, you need to use hand or tablet feeding. Chlorine is very important for protecting your skin, even though you should not swallow water that has chlorine in it. There are saltwater chlorine generators, which are one of the best ways to get the right amount of chlorine in your water.
You should always have cleaning supplies readily available, and check your water on a regular basis. You can get a cheap pool testing kit – which will more than pay for itself when you want to check your water.
Discuss – Chlorine powder is important in killing germs such as algae and bacteria that live in your pool and multiply at extremely fast speeds. To eliminate these germs, you should use a large amount of chlorine powder in your pool.
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