{"id":454,"date":"2010-12-03T21:10:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T21:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/my-pool-chemical-romance\/"},"modified":"2010-12-03T21:10:35","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T21:10:35","slug":"my-pool-chemical-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/my-pool-chemical-romance\/","title":{"rendered":"My Pool Chemical Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even as the years go on, having your own private pool is still one of the most incredible status symbols you can give your home. Whether you’re in the market or already putting the finishing touches on your home-pool, there are massive investments required to make this new part of your home workable. Whilst you’re probably aware of how much it will cost financially to maintain your pool and its various components like swimming pool pump<\/a> <\/strong>, you should also prepare yourself of for the time drain too. Maintaining even acceptable pool water is a daily concern which you’ll have to be prepared to go into more depth with on the weekends several times each season. But the rewards will be doubtlessly worth the effort.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Swimming Pool Chemicals<\/strong><\/a> are obviously the main resource you’ll need, but are you certain that you’re using them correctly? Chlorine is synonomous with pool maintenance, even if it’s not the definitive word on clean water. Deploy it in tablet form over several days. Automatic feeders are the way forward here, they connect to your pool filters<\/strong><\/a> making the process easier to manage and monitor. You should be deploying 1.0 parts per million routinely, so work out your pool’s capacity.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

However, routine chlorination is only half the chlorine commitment, you must super-chlorinate (or ‘Shock’) the pool periodically. Standard chlorine levels only destroy a certain section of the bacterial content of a pool. At the beginning of the seasons and perhaps even fortnightly, bringing the chlorine levels up to 5.0 parts per million is essential for consistently brillaint water. Obviously, you should wait until the chlorine concentration returns to around 1.0 parts a million before allowing swimming.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Chlorine isn’t your only concern though. Maintaining a pH of around 7.5 (preferably fluctuating slightly lower rather than higher) will keep eyes from getting sore. Decent pH balance also benefits your chlorine maintenance schedule, keeping the dissolution of chlorine in your water neither too fast nor too slow. A good test kit is a poolside essential. Sodium carbonate can be used to alter a low pH pool upwards, whilst sodium bisulfate has the opposite effect. The final monitorable condition is the content of iron in the water. Too much and you’ll start getting ugly green stains everywhere. 0.2 parts per million or less is suitable, and iron can be extracted with flocculants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even as the years go on, having your own private pool is still one of the most incredible status symbols you can give your home. Whether you’re in the market or already putting the finishing touches on your home-pool, there are massive investments required to make this new part of your home workable. Whilst you’re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[627,626,628,625],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-container-garden-design","category-container-gardening-ideas","tag-chemicals","tag-chlorine","tag-swimming-pool","tag-swimming-pool-maintenance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}