How to Maintain Your Swimming Pool

                                                                                         

Your swimming pool has made it so easy for you to unwind self after a day of extreme hard work. It almost replenishes your exhausted self the moment you make a dip inside it. It is also the beautifying ‘add-on’ for your home. An accessory that has certainly boosted the overall grandeur of the place of your living and `made your home so enviably different from other houses of your neighborhood.

All you need is to look after your swimming pool and let it remain ever so beautiful.

Here’s how you can do so:

Maintain pool’s chlorine levels. Mix chlorine gradually to the pool with automatic chlorine feeders or via floating method. Remember, by mixing too much of chlorine too fast you would hinder the scope of proper mixing. Unmixed chlorine can corrode your pool’s inlet and outlet pipes. In case of ingorund swimming pools, formation of slimy layer on the banks is a visible indication over undisclosed chlorine particles.

Use algae inhibitor to stop any algal growth in the pool. While a copper-based algaecide is more advisable, by stopping the algae bloom, you can let you sparkling blue swimming pool remain from turning to green.

Check water pH regularly. Test your pools water via simple pH indicators (like litmus papers). Your pool’s pH levels should always be between 7.2 and 7.6. While lower levels indicate greater acidity, level higher than 7.6 shows greater alkalinity. In case of greater acidity, the water of the pools turns highly corrosive. Where as, with increased alkalinity the sanitization capability of the pool gets damaged and resulting into excessive chlorine demand.

Last but not least check the calcium content of the water too. Calcium can also cause corrosion, and cloudiness in the water. Your calcium levels should be between 175 and 225 ppm. A professional check is more advisable for exact analysis.

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