How Do You Tell If A Swimming Pool Has Too Much Chlorine?
Keeping the proper chlorine level in your pool is very important for two reasons. First, chlorine keeps the levels of bacteria that could cause cloudy water and algae growth down. Second, you need to make sure that there isn’t too much chlorine in the water, because this could cause eye and skin irritation. Purchase a good-quality test kit that can test the levels of chlorine. You might want to think about spending more money for a DPD chlorine kit. This kit will measure free, combined and total chlorine levels. If you use an OTO kit, you will only be able to measure free chlorine levels. Read all instructions on the test kit that you purchased. There are many different kits out there, and the directions will differ. The recommended swimming pool chemical standards set forth by the National Spa and Pool Institute are between 2.0 and 4.0 ppm for free chlorine and none for combined chlorine. Know that if you can smell the chlorine in the water but your test shows that there isn’t any chl
