Pool care guides
Practical guides for pool chemistry, pumps, filters, heaters, salt systems, automation, and water problems.
If your pool calcium hardness is too low, your water is slowly dissolving your pool from the inside out. Sounds dramatic, but it’s true — water with low.
Read guideYou tested your water, and now you’re staring at a calcium hardness reading that’s way above the recommended range. Maybe it’s 500 ppm. Maybe it’s 800.
Read guideYou test your pool water expecting one problem, and you find two — your alkalinity sits below 80 ppm while your pH is reading 7.8 or higher. That.
Read guideYou’ve just tested your pool water and the numbers don’t make sense. Your alkalinity reads 180 ppm — way too high — but your pH sits at 7.0…
Read guideYou test your pool water on Monday, adjust the pH to a perfect 7.4, and feel pretty good about yourself. By Thursday? It’s crashed down to 6.8 again.
Read guideYou test your pool on Monday, add some muriatic acid, and get the pH down to a perfect 7.4. By Friday? It’s back up to 8.0. Sound familiar?…
Read guideYour test strip says chlorine is fine — or even high — but your pool water is still green. Before you dump another bag of shock in and…
Read guidePool Water Cloudy But Chemicals Are Balanced? Here’s What’s Actually Going On You’ve tested your water three times. Chlorine sits at 2.5 ppm. pH reads a.
Read guideYou’ve probably stood in the pool supply aisle staring at bags of shock and buckets of chlorine tablets, wondering if you really need both. Here’s the.
Read guideYou’ve probably heard pool store employees or that neighbor with the pristine water mention UV sanitizers. Maybe you’ve seen them online, promising.
Read guideYou’ve probably heard whispers at neighborhood pool parties about ozone systems. Maybe a friend mentioned their pool water feels “silky” now, or you’ve.
Read guideIf you’re tired of red eyes, bleached swimsuits, and that unmistakable chlorine smell clinging to your skin, you’ve probably wondered about alternatives.
Read guideUse the Pool Chemical Calculator app for chlorine, pH, alkalinity, stabilizer, salt, calcium, borates, and more.