I have a 18 foot round pool and I seem to be having chlorine demand I test the water and I get no chlorine reading I took a sample to a local pool store and they said my total chlorine Read More …
I have lived in this house for 10 years and I have never had to add any chemicals to my pool except Chlorine. How is it I never have to add acid? Every time I or the pool stores test, the Read More …
http://www.SwimmingPoolSteve.com – When you add chlorine to a bromine pool the chlorine acts as an oxidizer and reactivates spent bromine salts back into active bromine. The same is not true for the reverse situation in that adding bromine to a Read More …
Last year I put the chlorine tablets in the filter basket in the deep end, should I use a floater instead? Yes, a floater will be better. If you put them directly in the skimmer basket they put a high Read More …
We opened our pool yesterday, The water was fine with dirt on the bottom, after we shocked and vacuumed and let the pump run. We woke up today and the pool is green, it has algae inhibit in it and Read More …
Most of you are already familiar with the types of chlorine used in swimming pools (calcium hypochlorite, sodium hypochlorite (bleach), lithium hypochlorite, dichlor, and trichlor). The first three are not stabilized. Meaning once exposed to the sunlight, it will quickly Read More …
To be able to swim safely, chlorine is used to kill off the bacteria and to control the algae in your pool water. It also chemically destroys other inorganic materials. When any type of chlorine is added to water, an Read More …
Brief History of Chlorine Chlorine was discovered in 1774 by a chemist from Sweeden named Carl Scheele. He mixed the element Chlorine with a powdered pryslusite into muriatic acid. Chlorine was then named ‘chlorine’ because of its greenish color- stemming Read More …