How Do You Properly Maintain Swimming Pool Water Chemistry?
• Sanitize your swimming pool with chemical chlorine, which is dissolved into your swimming pool water and combines with bacteria and other organics in the water on a molecular level to kill these harmful contaminants. Once chlorine combines with the bacteria and organics in the swimming pool water, the chlorine becomes inactive and no longer works to sanitize your pool. The combined chlorine and organic contaminants are burned off by a weekly shock treatment, and removed from the water by the pool filter system and then some. Loading… • Determine what type of chlorine you should use. There seem to be many types of chlorine on the market, and each pool supply company works hard to make their chlorine product seem new and different. Chlorine is available in 3″ tablets, 1″ tablets, sticks and in a granular form. Upon inspecting the labels and comparing of all of the different brands of chlorine, you will see that the active ingredient is exactly the same in all of them; however, cheap
