When you own a swimming pool, especially a busy bigger inground pool you'll run into balancing problems that have to do with alkalinity, pH, and chlorine residuals that over time can sneak up on you...
Category: Pool Chemistry
Besides basic maintenance work on pumps and filters a pool owner more importantly needs the knowledge on how to test pool water because once you take the pool covers off, open your pool, and start...
Water pH is a measure of the acidity of water tested and is the most routine pool water test along with chlorine residual that a pool operator will perform at the very least every day of the week. ...
Free chlorine residual should always remain higher than Combined chlorine residual during Daily testing and monitoring of Chlorine and along with your pool's pH are the most critical parameters for...
When you add Chlorine to your pool water it forms hypochlorous acid. How effective it works as a disinfectant is dictated and influenced by the other chemicals that exist in the pool, primarily pH...
If you shock the pool too close to activity time and guests are coming but the Chlorine residual level is still too high, there are a few things that you can do to reduce it and bring it down faster...