Salt Pool or Chlorine Pool: What Is Actually Different

A salt pool is not a pool without chlorine, which is the most common misunderstanding. It is a pool that makes its own chlorine from salt. Here is ...

Pool Maintenance Schedule: Weekly, Monthly and Yearly

An easy pool is not one that needs less care, it is one that gets care consistently. This sets out what to do every week, every month and once a ye...

Cloudy Pool Water: Working Through the Five Causes

Cloudy water is harder to fix than green water, because there are several possible causes and the treatments pull in different directions. This wor...

Pool pH: What It Should Be, and How to Keep It Steady

pH is the value worth testing most often, because it decides whether the chlorine you add can actually work. This covers the right range, how to ad...

Green Pool Water: How to Get It Clear Again in 6 Steps

Green water is not fixed by tipping in more chlorine. This guide puts the steps in the right order, from testing the water and correcting pH throug...

Chlorine... and Swimming Pools Part 2

Chlorine is a type of disinfectant or sanitizer. It can kill germs just like alcohol, iodine, or the saline solution we use to clean wounds. Howeve...

In the swimming pool... what's there?

Have you ever gone swimming, especially in a public pool, and then came back with red eyes, ear infections, or skin inflammation, even though the w...

Chlorine and Swimming Pools: Part 1

Chlorine is well-known to everyone in the swimming pool industry because it is a highly effective, inexpensive, and widely used disinfectant. Most ...