There are 4 main items that need to be balanced in your swimming pool water:
1. Chlorine: Chlorine sanitizes your pool water, the level of the chlorine needs to stay between 1 and 3. Anything lower than 1 and your pool will easily turn green, and bacteria will be able to spread around your pool. Anything higher than 5 you could cause itchy skin for the bathers and staining on your pool surface.
2. PH: This shows you how acidic or alkaline your swimming pool is. Your pools PH should be kept at 7.5, this is the same PH as your eyes and therefore your eyes will not burn when you swim. If your PH is to high, your pool cleaner will become brittle and your water will be scale forming leaving a white residue on your mosaic.
3. Sunshield: This stops the sun from absorbing the chlorine from your swimming pool, this reading should be between 40-70ppm.
4. Total Alkalinity: This is a PH buffer, the total alkalinity determines whether the PH will change slowly or quickly when chmicals are added. The total alkalinity should be between 80 and 120. If it is too low the PH will change very quickly allowing your pool to turn green easily when it rains. If the total alkalinity is too high, you can add allot of chemicals to your pool to adjust the PH but the PH will still battle to change your water will also stay milky if the total alkalinity is out of balance.
My next Blog will cover all the other things that need to be balanced as well as their effects on your swimming pool. Eg: Calcium, TDS, copper and Salt.
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