Testing the water’s chemical balance is key in a swimming pool for safe swimming. If the chlorine is excessive it may cause burning eyes, green hair and itchy skin. With too little pool chemicals you can get disease causing bacteria, infections and cloudy or bad-looking water.
Test Pool Chemicals Weekly
The water chemistry can be examined each week with a simple kit. To test the water, add the proper swimming pool chemicals, clean and properly maintain it for summer or winter, professionals can be empoloyed if you don’t have time to properly care for your pool.
Summer Shocking
To eliminate any germs that may have grown over the winter when the water was not cleaned as often it is commonly good to “shock” your pool when summer comes, using 10 times the amount of chlorine. The water is not safe to swim in during this ’shocking’ period Also, during this process the gasses on the top of the pool can make breathing hard so children and anyone not needed for the cleaning should stay away for at least two hours.
Safety Issues
The pool chemicals are altered by sun light and other chemicals in the water. When sweat, dander or urine binds with chlorine, hazardous chemicals that can cause asthma in some people are formed. Partly because of this and partly for ecological reasons many people have given up using chlorine and found different ways such as electronic oxidation, salt chlorination and ozone.
Chlorine Action
Once chlorine has reacted with the bacteria or pathogens in the pool it renders them innocuous and becomes inert in the process. Chlorine needs to be added frequently either by hand or through an automatic device because of this. For quicker cleaning and faster dissolving us Stabilised chlorine granules.
When To Add Swimming Pool Chemicals
For best results the swimming pool chemicals should be added in the evening so they have more time to operate before the sun begins evaporation.
The chemistry of the water and the way it looks are part of the sanitation of a pool. An inviting pool for swimmers is clean and disinfected.
