Maintaining Pool Calcium Hardness
This article explains how to maintain calcium hardness in swimming pools, why calcium hardness is important, and why calcium hardness can be high or low.
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How to manage swimming pool pH
These articles explain the ins and outs of everything related to keeping your swimming pool pH balanced and healthy. I also explain why it’s important to keep pH in-check, and the bad things that can happen to your pool if your pH is not where it should be.
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Lowering Pool Calcium Hardness
This article explains how to lower the calcium hardness in swimming pool water, and why it is important to avoid calcium hardness that is too high or low.
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Testing Pool Calcium Hardness
This article explains how to test your swimming pool calcium hardness level in your water, and explain how to test with test kits and test strips.
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Raising Swimming Pool pH
A thorough discussion on how to raise your swimming pool water pH, plus an explanation of why increasing your pH is important for your swimming pool.
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Lowering Swimming Pool pH
The complete guide on lowering swimming pool pH water level and why lowering pool pH is important and go through each chemical used to decrease the pH.
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Yellow Algae
Yellow algae are commonly found in swimming pools with insufficient sanitizers, allowing for the rooting and growth of this algae on pool walls and filters.
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Total Dissolved Solids (TDS)
Total dissolved solids is used to describe the measurement of all substances dissolved in swimming pool water.
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Total Alkalinity
Total alkalinity describes the measuring of all alkaline substances found in the swimming pool water, and can be used to estimate the buffering capacity of the water from wild pH swings.
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Test Strips
Test strips are small strips of paper or plastic that serve as testing devices, and designed to test specific chemicals in swimming pool water.
