Thursday, December 22, 2011

How much pool chemicals should i add to my pool?

Well to give an idea, you have about 5,600 gal in your pool.To start off--if you've got liquid shock, i'd put in one gallon per 5,000 gals (if the water is clear.) If its light green or cloudy double it,(2 gals.) And if its dark green triple it, (3 gals.) Add the algecide as recommended on the bottle. After you shock the pool with liquid make sure no one is in the pool for 8 hours before swimming. Add the chlorine tablets as needed to keep a 2ppm (parts per million) reading. Think of the tablets as logs on a fire... it maintains the fire, and the shock as gasoline... its starts it. Try to buy some test strips to test your chlorine everyday. Stabilizer gets added too, whatever the bottle tells you. (certain ones are different.) Stabilizer helps keep chlorine up. As far as the clarifier goes, only add it when it gets too cloudy. **some other things to think about adding are pH increaser, pH decreaser, Alkalinity increaser, and Calcium Hardness increaser when needed. To find out when you need it the test strip you buy will let you know. Or you can just go into your local pool store and have your water tested. :) Hope this helps any!

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