I have a 26,000 gallon in-ground pool that just had all new water put
in after some work was completed. We bought the house in the fall and
have never had a pool before. I hope someone can help me out with
some basic questions.
1. The filter has settings for rinse and recirculate. When would
these be used?
2. Yesterday afternoon we put in the chemicals that the pool store
sold us after testing the water. Can we swim today or do we need to
wait longer?
3. How often do you add chlorine? What other chemicals do you add
routinely?
4. We already have 50 pounds of chlorine granules. The pool store
wants us to use tablets. What are the differences?
new pool owner with questions
October 24th, 2004 · 2 Comments
Tags: pumps
2 responses so far ↓
1 Patty Sarita // Oct 25, 2004 at 7:22 pm
Whoops! Hit return before answering all questions ….
The frequency of adding chlorine to maintain normal levels depends on the
form you are adding it in.
You should never add any chemicals by guesswork. They should always be
added when there is a known requirement to modify the water chemistry
because it is out of specs or heading that way. I would suggest that, in
your early stages of owning a pool, you should test the water frequently,
document the results and look for trends. Changes in pool chemistry are the
result of many factors most of which are constantly changing …. amount of
sunlight, bather load, type of pool surfacing (plaster, paint, glass,
etc.), quantity and type of foreign matter such as leaves, airborne dirt
etc., top-up water chemistry and so on, so it is important you understand
how your pool reacts under your particular environment and usage.
This is a fraught area. There are as many answers as there are people
expressing opinions. My 2 cents worth … if you are not using an
electrolytic converter (which I think is the best way to go), you should
first consider liquid, tablets the granules in that order. The downside of
the solid sources of chlorine is the “rubbish” they leave behind which is
the result of the chemical reactions that takes place in the water plus the
binders used in the tablets. Often these are too fine to be filtered out by
a sand filter.
2 Carlo Twyla // Oct 26, 2004 at 1:54 pm
What’s an electrolytic converter?
Susan
This is a fraught area. There are as many answers as there are people
expressing opinions. My 2 cents worth … if you are not using an
electrolytic converter (which I think is the best way to go), you should
first consider liquid, tablets the granules in that order.
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