POOL CHEMISTRY 101: How to Keep Your Water Balanced | Swim University
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- Keep your pool water balanced and close to neutral, and avoid scaling, corrosion, and cloudiness, all with just three pool chemistry components. This isn't just about pool chemicals for beginners, though. Bet you could use a refresher.
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⏰ Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction to Pool Chemistry
01:10 - What Is pH
02:35 - What Is Alkalinity
04:03 - How To Balance pH and Alkalinity
08:09 - What Is Calcium Hardness
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The way you explain things is very understandable. It's like having a conversation with a friend and they're teaching you to take care of your pool. Thank you!
That's exactly what we like to hear! So happy we can help
As a newby pool owner I appreciate these videos! I walked into a pool supply store for the first time in my life today and felt kinda smart ; )
i bet you also saved alot of money! they love to sell you every product under the sun
Learned more in your 10 minute video then I did in the last week trying to understand basic pool maintenance. Thanks for making it easy to understand!
As a pool company I find your content very useful as a training tool. Keep it up.
Hey, I want to ask you about which product is good to adjust the pH and why. Between these two products, sulfuric acid (liquid or dry) and hydrochloric acid, and also about the chlorine shock, which is the best: calcium hypochlorite or TCCA (trichloroisocyanuric acid)
This is the best explanation ever. Your videos make me feel so confident about pool maintenance on my own as a new pool owner. Thank you.
I can't thank you enough for these informative videos. I am a new pool owner and am lost. These have helped me enormously. I feel so smart now...well not really but thanks!
Great video. Best explanation of water testing and water adjustment yet. Great Job
You do a great job explaining things. Thanks.
Thank you! Appreciate it, I've recently decided to take over responsibility of the pool since my husband is always saying i do it but never does. It's alway been green. So i've scrubbed all the algae off the tiles after shocking it. All crystal clear now. This is the next step 🙏
This is the most helpful accessible video about how to balance my pool that I have found!
Glad it was helpful!
You're awesome! Haha. Thank you! I'm overwhelmed by this pool chemistry and you help so much!
helping my mom out by taking over the pool cleaning so she wont have to pay and ur videos are what are helping me keep it clean otherwise she was gonna cover the pool with dirt! so thank you
Your video gives new pool owner like me a fundamental and good knowledge on water balance and keeping. Thank you.
This is very informational content, thank you so much for explaining it. Short and direct.
just bought a 12 ft pool for the season and i also bought a house with a 20ft by 30ft in ground pool that i will be moving in only in october so this little pool will help me learn the pool chemistry for this summer
great video
Way to kick that knowledge straight guy! Well done.
Thanks man, Now my pool is crystal. And my skin dosn't peel anymore. Needed PH up (soda ash) too fix 2 things. Thanks again for explaining the importance of PH and acidity.
My PH is always trending up while my alkalinity is trending down. I just add baking soda to raise alkalinity, then a little acid to drop the PH. I do this every week or two
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Possibly because the pool store is also testing CYA and that affects the alkalinity reading. You need to know your cya reading and subtract 1/3 of it from the alkalinity reading you get at home.
@@dianeempey1umm what???? Who told you that 🤔🤔
Your pool chemistry will never remain the same. When you add in your landscapers, pest control companies, how much you use your pool, if you have animals (dogs) in your pool. Your chemicals won't stay balanced. That's the entire reason in a pool company bc your water will not stay balanced no matter how hard you try... You can be on it everyday,.but you'll always have to adjust things.
Thank you for all your information!!! You are great splain everything!!!👍
Thank you. As always great reminder. GBY
It has all worked for me. Thank you!!
Best video I’ve seen on pool maintenance!
thanks from new pool chem salesman, this video really helped to solidify my knowledge.
These videos have been extremely helpful to me as a new pool owner
Thanks for the information sir. Very helpful!
Thanks for the advice and heads up on my pool:)
He know his business and how to teach!!! Outstanding Video..
Awesome video! Thank you so much!
Fantastic info. Thank you
Excellent video. Thank you.
Thanks... That was crystal clear
My above ground pool is 13summers old and not once have i ever checked my pool for anything just use chlorine tablets pool is always crystal clear with no problems at all with it.
Thank you I learned so much!
Amazing and really very good work it helped me in many other different things
Many Thanks and all the best to you and everyone with you
Very helpful. Thank you.
Thanks for the info Dude.
Truly WELL expressed.
Thx for this vid Been having lots of Trouble balancing ph and alkalinity ❤️❤️❤️
You're welcome! Hope it helps :-)
Nice way to explain, you are awesome.
Thank you very helpful and very easy for me to understand.
Well done. Thank you.
thank you sir for sharing this knowledge about pool this video help my work to clean a pool my work...!!👍
Nice and clear…. My pool water, and the information
Good video
Thank you so much for the help
I already know how to balance a pool but I do like to watch these videos as a refresher before I actually open my pool for the year just so that way I don’t screw something up.
Do you let it go green or do you drain it?
This was suuuuper helpful and it’s the first vid I’ve watched lol
Always good info. I have an Anthony Sylvan gunite pool and they recommend a high calcium range from 225-375 ppm. I try to keep it at about 300.
cardo that’s fine.
300 is perfect 👌. You had (10 months ago) a brand new plaster, if the water is thirsty for calcium, it will get it from the fresh plaster, the freshly drank calcium from the plaster will increase ph so fast and so rapid the calcium will no longer chelate and fall from suspension and leave you with "plaster dust" which is calcium hydroxide.
A very informative video well done
I love your videos. Thank you! Somewhere you had a link to your store and a starter list and I can’t find it again. I just took over our pool maintenance (a 7500 gallon tiny inground pool). I’ll keep hunting for the store you’d shared. But I need to buy pool chemicals pronto!
You can find everything you need on our website! www.swimuniversity.com/
Great video very informative , this man always has me feeling relax and stress free 💯
I enjoyed & learned from the video. FYI, though, the couple of times you put your website URL in the video, it's misspelled (the second time is at 9:54.) Thanks for posting these!
Super awesome video! I home brew so the ph and alkalinity information was understandable, but I was not sure how this knowledge transferred to pool water. Great explanation and clear delivery. Thanks yo!
I used to cook meth so maintaining my new pool came pretty easily to me as well.
LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!!! Thank you! What do I do about my 15kgal pool as it's off the charts on hardness and with the drought we cannot drain and refill? I'm in Southern California. Help PLEASE!
Great help 😊
I’m will putting up my pool this weekend. Wanting to do the bbb method how much bleach, baking soda, and borax should I put in for a 18x4 above ground pool? These videos are awesome, I’m just not good with pool chemistry..
Thanks very informative 👍
My belief is that Water balance is governed by 3 key parameters: pH, alkalinity & calcium hardness. If these 3 parameters are correctly balanced, the water will be clear. This I understand is the basis of the Langelier Saturation Index (LSI). I also believe that you get the calcium hardness to the right level before you adjust alkanility and pH particularly at the start of the season.
Great videos! So glad I joined Swim University! My pool company is suggesting adding a Ph monitor with dosing pump and acid tank to manage Ph in my pool. Anyone have experience with this setup?
It was helpful!!!
i liked your video it was helpful if the ph s 7.9 and alklanilty is really high do you think we need to decrease our water in the pool we was told that do you think that necessary
Thank you. I was going crazy I have a pool it’s only 650 gal no perimeters so I had to make it up but now I know.
I’ll bring the popcorn! 😅 Thanks for the info.
Hi I use a UV steriliser to reduce the chlorine content so have you any advice for using this system ?
Thanks dude !!
Great vido!video!! Learned alot.. how soon after adding alkalinity up can u swim??
Hey, the lesson was great it helped some. But I have an 8 persons salt water hot tub does the same chemistry ably with salt water?
Hi I just completed administering the 6 hrs alkalinity boosting process. Do I return the pump to filter
I just started a job at a pool supply company. Par of mybjob is to test water. I had no idea how difficult it was going to be. What would u say I should focus on to help me begin to really connect the dots and understand what I'm doing? Thanks so much
I’ve got a question about calcium hardness in plaster pools. I’ve heard that if you have too high of a calcium level that its not a problem if you keep the LSI in check by lowering the ph and alkalinity. With a low calcium pool would raising the ph and alkalinity solve that issue, or will calcium still be pulled from the plaster no matter what you do with the LSI?
If someone see’s this and knows, I’ll take an answer from anyone.
Great. The best information yet. Thanks!
Is there a good digital test device to get accurate measures of PH, alkalinity and others?
Does the Baking Soda / Clorox and Borax work for the PH / Alkalinity levels in a Salt Water above ground Pool ?
Do you have videos for above ground salt water pools with a Intex Krystal Clear Saltwater System with E.C.O. (Electrocatalytic Oxidation)
Nice video, you mention about increasing water hardness and what to use, what do you use when you live in a hard water area and need to soften the water?
some pool stores will have these pillows that soften water, such as the freshwater brand, but its usually used in hot tubs. id search around for something akin to that :)
Are the measurements of the chemicals by weight or by volume for powders and granules?
Awesome info! Brand new above ground pool owner. Water turned green after a few days. 😢. I have the test strips and am working on adjusting outcomes. If I need Borax, how much do I need for 5000 gallons?
I like it. It is very helpful..
I don't own a pool, yet this is interesting to learn. Pool maintenance really is as big as construction of a pool itself.
My tester only has reagents for testing Ph and Cl, how do I test for alkalinity?
Could I have a low ph (7,2 in my case) and high alkalinity? My ph is 7,2 chlorine is 3 but pool is milky/cloudy. I had used multi purpose tablets but also had 6 family members over for a week so added some fast working granular chlorine. I constantly have like a white powdery substance on the bottom
Do you have any videos on mineral pools, such as magnapool?
Thank you!!!
He mentioned high ph is less common but that seems to be my constant situation with my above ground pool. I constantly have to adjust my pool with ph minus. What makes my ph go so far up. I have a 7k gallon pool with a sand filter.
Thanks for the very informative videos! I really appreciate all the time you take to try and educate us about pool maintenance!
How can I find out how many gallons my pool is? Nobody could give me an answer when I purchased my home...
Length x width x average depth x 7.5 = volume (in gallons)
Multiplying that by the average depth gives the volume in cubic feet. Since there are 7.5 gallons in each cubic foot, multiply the cubic feet of the pool by 7.5 to arrive at the volume of the pool (expressed in gallons).
What do you clean Tiger flex hoses with???
"Nice!" Very thorough!"
Thank you
Any chance you could do a video on how to accurately read test strips?
Test strips are hard to read. They are typically vague. I would recommend only the ones that take drops from the reagents. A pool is a big investment, worth it to spend the few extra bucks to properly maintain it. False readings could lead you to costing yourself more money, better to go with a more reliable testing method.
we have a 14ft 42 inch with a standard filter cartridge intex pump i dont think its working properly do you think a bigger pump is needed
What natural products can I use to keep a plastic kiddie pool clean. Any assistance is greatly appreciated!
hi from the UK, have set my spa up, the chlorin is fine and my ph is ok but the Alkalinity is a bit low any ideas? thank you.
My alkalinity test comes out perfect 100, it's my PH that is off the charts, it's really high. I didn't see a recommendation for that. Does anyone have an opinion?
I have a salt pool. i have always have high pH, and normal alkalinity, or low from time to time. 8.0 pH is norm. Any advice?
loved your instructions.
why do people DISLIKE this video
I mistakenly add the water to my Intex 10x30 before realizing a filter didn't come with my pool. I just ordered a pump but it will be a week before its delivered. Is there anything i can do to the water to avoid having to empty and replace the water.
I don’t know if anybody’s mentioned it yet but the biggest most expensive I guess problem that I run into as a Pool Builders/service guy is heater heat exchanger failures because of low pH and the inability of a customer to admit that they are the cause of the failures
If I start with water which is ph 7.2 and I add a load of buffer and the pH goes up. Then I add a load of acid to bring the ph back to 7.2 will the water be the same wrt alkalinity and pH stability or will it still have alkalinity and stability? Ie does the acid neutralise the buffer or does it still do stuff after having its pH forced down by the acid?
I get high alkaline values and low pH. Therr are no alkaline reducers in Spain. As a consequence, chlorine levels are usually low, no matter how much pH increaser and chlorine I add.
My pool is 2750 gallons. My ph is around 6.4 (my 5 way test kit dosent go lower than 6.8 but the color is yellow), my alkalinity is 180 ppm. I have a vinyl pool. How much borax would I need to get me to 7.4?
Yeah I have a question how do I lower my ph(9.0+) and alkalinity (240+)? I have tried using muriatic acid and ph down an my ph and alkalinity are still up there.
When I checked, pH was 7.1 and TA was around 200.
It's really strange. If I try to increase pH .. TA will be higher.
What I need to do? I would like to increase pH upto 7.4 also I want to decrease TA.
Please recommend.
pH ? TA ? which one has priority?