Pool Opening Water Chemistry

Pool Opening Water Chemistry

Balancing Your Water Chemistry at Pool Opening

Pool Fits strives to provide easy to follow information that will allow you to enjoy your pool and our products. Pool Opening Water Chemistry and balancing your pool water when you open your pool is essential. Once done you’ll be well on your way to enjoying your pool all season long. Water chemistry sounds complex, but it isn’t! This article provides a brief outline of what you need to know. If you want to learn even more dive into Pool Fits Knowledge Center and learn what you need to know.

Before Balancing Your Water

After a long winter you’re likely to find some sediment and dirt has settled to the bottom of your pool. Pool Fits recommends you remove this sediment and dirt by vacuuming. Tip: By vacumming to ‘waste’ and ‘by-passing’ the filter media you avoid any unnecessary build-up in your filter media. As a result your filter to operate more efficiently. Once the visible dirt and sediment has been removed the entire pool surface should be brushed throughly, using your pool maintenance brush.

Pool Maitenance Brush
Pool Maintenance Brush

Opening Pool Water Chemistry in 4 Steps

  1. Stabalize – Adjust Stabalizer to between 25 ppm and 50 ppm
  2. Alkalinity – Adjust Total Alkalinity to between 80 ppm and 120 ppm
  3. PH – Adjust PH to between 7.2 and 7.6
  4. Oxidize – Adjust Free Chlorine levels to between 1.0 and 3.0
  • Tip: Oxidizer levels are typically very low after the winter by adding ‘shock’ Free Chlorine levels can temporarily be raised to between 5 ppm and 10 ppm and is a good practice.

These 4 steps will have you off to a great start for your pool water chemistry this spring. Once this intial phase is complete, Pool Fits recommends you take the following ‘next steps’:

Next Steps

  1. Calcium Hardness – Adjust Calcium Hardness to between 200 ppm and 300 ppm
  2. Metals – Remove Metals such as Iron and Copper to between 0 ppm and 0.2 ppm
  3. Phosphates – Remove Phosphates to between 0 ppb and 100 ppb

Tip: Taking a water sample to a local pool store 3 to 6 times each season, to be professionally tested, is a ‘best practice’ that Pool Fits recommends. Your local pool store’s testing capabilities will ensure that you have very accurate data on your pool’s water chemistry.

Properly & Safely Adding Chemicals to Your Pool

For the best results always follow the instructions on the packaging of pool chemicals. As a general rule, never add dry and or concentrated chemicals to your pool. Always dilute dry and concentrated chemicals into a bucket filled with pool water and mix thoroughly before introducing chemicals to your pool water.

Pool Fits is super excited about the upcoming 2023 pool season and will continue to make posts to assist you in enjoying your pool and perhaps our products. Find out more about Pool Fits and visit our Knowledge Center for more valuable information about pool liners and covers. At Pool Fits ‘We’re Here to Help’, so don’t hesitate to Contact Us!

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