Yes… every week.
Shock “burns” or oxidizes these contaminates and replenishes the chlorine level in your pool. Shocking actually restores your chlorine’s “fighting power” and makes it safe to swim again.
It’s very important to properly test your swimming pool chemical levels.
Swimming pool shock comes in chlorine and non-chlor variety.
At http://www.megapoolandspa.com, we sell cheap swimming pool shock.
People love the feeling of a saltwater sanitized swimming pool. Saltwater pools have a softer feeling and don’t have the “chlorine effects” like red eyes and the smell.
The Chlorease Saltwater Generator from Smartpool is an electric unit that you put into your swimming pool that generates chlorine. After the inital cost of buying the unit, all you’ll need to buy is a little salt, greatly reducing the amount of chlorine you need to buy.
The Chlor Ease is placed underwater and held in place under the toprail of your aboveground swimming pool. The unit produces chlorine continuously and treats pools up to 18,000 gallons.
Saltwater chlorination is a process in which salt is electrically charged to produce chlorine. This is commonly called a chlorine generator system. As water passes over the chlorinator’s specially coated plates, an electric current breaks down the salt and water into their basic elements to form hypochlorous acid, which is the active sanitizer in all forms of chlorine. The chlorine kills algae and bacteria in the water and oxidizes the waste. Thereafter, the chlorine regenerates itself back to salt and begins the process over again in a virtually unending cycle. Since salt does not evaporate, an occasional addition of salt is needed only to replace what is lost due to splash out, pump out, draining or backwashing.
Please visit our website to buy an above ground swimming pool saltwater chlorine generator today.
To determine how many gallons of water are in your swimming pool, you basically multiply the length, width, depth, then we also use a “multiplier”.
If you have a sloped pool or a pool with a deep end, you just figure the average depth. Take the depth of the shallow and deep end. Add them together and divde by two. This gives you a rough estimate of the average depth. If you have a flat bottom pool, you guessed it, your average depth is just the depth of your pool
For Round Pools, you multiply the diameter (in feet) times the diameter (in feet) times the average depth (in feet) times 5.9 (the multiplier).
For Oval Swimming Pools, the calculation is roughly the same, but we change the multiplier. To figure the amount of gallons in an above ground swimming pool, it’s length x width x average depth x 6.7 (our multiplier).
For rectangular pools, our equation to figure the amount of water in a swimming pool is lenth x width x average depth x 7.5(our multiplier)
There is a lot to do, but the first thing you need to do is buy a spring start up kit. This chemical package contains all the chemicals you need to open your above ground or inground swimming pool. These packages are sold in sizes based on the number of gallons in your pool
Stay tuned for other articles on how to open your swimming pool after the winter months.
There are many brands of chlorine tablets available for the homeowner today. At www.megapoolandspa.com , we carry the Blue Wave brand. This product is similar to the more expensive labels such as Biogard, Sun, Guardex, and Pace. At Mega Pool and Spa, we sell a lot of swimming pool chemicals, so we can offer low prices and fast shipping.
These chlorine tabs are individually wrapped in plastic and can be used in your skimmer, automatic chlorine feeder , floater, or inline chlorinator .
We have the chlorine available in 1″ chlorine tablets , 3″ chlorine tablets, chlorine sticks, and granular chlorine.
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