I just finished all my core articles I wanted to write on how to manage your chlorine, calcium hardness, total alkalinity, and copper. These, in addition to finishing my series of articles on pool pH, round out a big part of swimming pool water maintenance. All the articles will live in the Maintaining Your Swimming Pool section of the Pool For Thought website, but here they are in a somewhat organized format:
Managing Total Alkalinity
Total alkalinity is probably the most important water balance level in your swimming pool:
- Maintaining Pool Alkalinity
- Testing Pool Alkalinity
- Raising Pool Alkalinity
- Lowering Pool Alkalinity
Managing Pool pH
Swimming pool pH is also a water balance measurement, and tends to be difficult to keep constant:
- Maintaining Swimming Pool pH
- Testing Swimming Pool pH
- Raising Swimming Pool pH
- Lowering Swimming Pool pH
Managing Calcium Hardness
Think soft water is good for your pool? Think again, as your pool should be a little on the hard water end of the hardness spectrum:
- Maintaining Pool Calcium Hardness
- Testing Pool Calcium Hardness
- Raising Pool Calcium Hardness
- Lowering Pool Calcium Hardness
Managing Chlorine Levels
If you have a chlorinated pool, then you have to make sure your chlorine level is high enough, but not too high:
- Maintaining Swimming Pool Chlorine
- Testing Swimming Pool Chlorine
- Raising Swimming Pool Chlorine
- Lowering Swimming Pool Chlorine
Managing Copper Metal Levels
Cooper in your water? I’ll show and explain all the ways this metal can enter your swimming pool, and what to do about it:
Now, I am by no means the world’s authority on swimming pool maintenance, but having owned and maintained a swimming pool for the better part of a decade, I have come across plenty of challenges and learned more than I thought I ever would along the way.
What do you think? Let me know if I need to add more articles on water and chemical balancing your swimming pool, or perhaps create a few summary pages as more of a quick reference. I have plenty more I could write about, but I would really like to hear your ideas.
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