Pool care guides
Practical guides for pool chemistry, pumps, filters, heaters, salt systems, automation, and water problems.
Quick Answer To vacuum a pool manually, attach the vacuum head to a telescopic pole, connect and fully prime the vacuum hose, attach the hose to the.
Read guideQuick answer: Algaecide usually is not clearing your pool because active algae needs chlorine shock, brushing, filtration, and balanced water first. Test.
Read guideQuick answer: To use pool algaecide correctly, test and balance the water first, brush the pool, add the label dose around the perimeter, and run the.
Read guideQuick answer: A cloudy pool after killing algae usually means the shock worked, but the dead algae is still suspended in the water or settled as fine.
Read guideQuick answer: Pool shock temporarily raises your sanitizer level high enough to destroy algae, break down chloramines (the stuff that causes that.
Read guideYou added algaecide to your pool, and now you're staring at green water wondering if you should shock it. Here's the problem: how long after algaecide.
Read guideYour pool turned into a murky swamp overnight. Maybe an algae bloom got out of control, or a dust storm rolled through. Either way, your sand filter is.
Read guideQuick answer Use a sodium thiosulfate pool calculator when free chlorine is too high and you need a careful neutralizer dose. Enter pool volume, current.
Read guideQuick Answer: To calculate breakpoint chlorination, multiply your combined chlorine reading by 10 to get your target free chlorine level, then subtract.
Read guideQuick answer A pool CSI calculator shows whether your water is corrosive, balanced, or scale-forming by combining pH, water temperature, calcium hardness.
Read guideQuick answer A pool saturation index calculator tells you whether your water is balanced, corrosive, or scale-forming by combining pH, temperature.
Read guideQuick answer To calculate boric acid for a pool, multiply pool gallons by the borate ppm increase you want, then multiply by 0.0000477. A 10,000-gallon.
Read guideUse the Pool Chemical Calculator app for chlorine, pH, alkalinity, stabilizer, salt, calcium, borates, and more.