Is There Organic Cleaner That Works Like Chlorine For A Pool?

August 10, 2009 by admin
Filed under Pool Cleaning Tips

pool-girl I’m looking for something for a pool. I tried to Google it and Yahoo it and it brings up cleaner to kill organic things. It doesn’t work right. Thanks for your time and I hope you can help. Chlorine is horrible for your body and eyes so there has to be something from the Earth that works better.

Unfortunately elizabeth, the salt generator is a chlorine generator. It works by breaking the molecular bond of salt (sodium chloride) and changing the chlorine ion into an active form of chlorine for your water. I’m surprised no one told you this.
As for chemicals for your pool, there are really no alternatives that you can use short of a chlorine generator. Bromine is actually worse for your body than chlorine is, and with proper maintenance and care the chlorine pool is absolutely not harmful to your body at all.

Free chlorine levels of 3ppm are fine for the human body, in fact they are approximately what you can find in chlorinated water. This level will not decolorize your hair, clothing, etc. You can not taste nor smell this amount of chlorine in the water and it will not irritate your eyes, nose, throat, or ears.

The irritants come from combined chlorine. Levels of just .5ppm will cause irritation to mucus membranes of the body and will give off the typical chlorine stink one associates with a pool.
As little as 1/2 gallon of household bleach in 10,000 gallons of pool water is needed to maintain a 5ppm level in the water. This is equivalent to a circular pool 25 feet across and 4 feet deep.

There are other chemicals you can use in your pool that will make you feel better about what you are putting into your swimming water. Arm & Hammer baking soda, 20 Mule Team borax, and liquid household bleach are all you need to use to maintain a vinyl lined pool.

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Pool Cleaner Help?

August 7, 2009 by admin
Filed under Automatic Pool Cleaner Buzz, Pool Cleaning Tips

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I’ve tried everything to get the cloudiness out of my pool water. I’ve bought several Clarifier’s, Shock Treatments, Algae Cleaners etc. Please someone help me what else can I use that will work?

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The problem could be with your filter. See if it is clogged up or anything. You can also use a Filter Aid, that will help the filter pick up more things. As a last resort, you could use a floculant, which will grab small particles that the filter can’t get and drag them to the bottom of the pool which you can easily vaccum. And remember to keep using a weekly shock.

If the pump and filter are in proper working order, then I would investigate the chemistry. There are several things to look for when contending with a green, or cloudy pool. First is water temperature, the sun’s UV’s and warmer water temperature eat up chlorine faster than cool, dark conditions. So you want to make sure you have an adequate amount of stablizer (conditioner) in the pool. It helps the chlorine to last longer. You also want to pay attention to the total dissolved solids (TDS), and the calcium hardness. If those are high, the chlorine wont last very long either. In Arizona, where I live, the water from the tap, already has a high amount of that. If those levels are high, consider replacing the water in the pool.

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