Saltwater Chlorine Generator Technology

4/11/2013 12:17:04 PM

Saltwater Chlorine Generators, also called Salt Systems or Salt Chlorinators are fairly simple to understand. You pour salt (NaOCl2) - into the pool, about 200lbs per 10000 gals of pool water and this salty water is pumped through a salt cell, or electrically charged metal plates. Fancy folk call the process an oxidation-reduction reaction. I call it chemistry! The salt breaks down into it's components and mixes with the H2O, or dissassociates, as expressed by the following equation.

Pool Opening at the Douglas Pool

4/10/2013 11:12:30 AM

The snow has melted, the days are warming up, and it's time to get your pool ready to use again. I always wish this step could be magically done for me, and I can go straight to sipping margaritas. In fact, it can be done almost as easily as that, by hiring a service to do it for you. A pool service can save you a lot of time and effort. What it won't save you is money, as it can typically cost a several hundred dollars.

Pool Pet Safety

4/10/2013 10:05:35 AM

Swimming pools can be great exercise for dogs, or your pet turtle. But what pool safety measures should be put in place to protect animals from accidental drowning in pools? The focus of this article is how to keep your pet safe around water. This brings to mind the pet dog, and If you own a cat, this author assumes that keeping him or her out of the pool is easy, however noted that accidents do occur.

Swimming Pool Affiliates

10/30/2012 8:12:51 PM

Do you have a website? A blog? A FaceBook page? Maybe you have readers or visitors that would benefit by a recommendation to some good ecommerce websites. Or maybe you have thought of selling something on your website, but how to do it? When visitors on your webpage click a link to a merchant in an affiliate program, they are tracked through...

5 ways to keep the heat in the swimming pool

5/28/2010 6:11:26 PM

If you have a solar heater heating your pool, or a pool heat pump, the cost to heat your pool can be very low. If you heat your pool with fossil fuel, namely natural or propane gas, like an estimated 900,000 pool owners do, you may be interested to know ways to reduce your gas bill and reduce your pool's energy demand.

Accurate Pool Water Testing

5/21/2010 2:40:29 PM

With test kits, the axiom holds true, you get what you pay for. If you want accuracy, you'll need to pay a few more dollars. For the average pool owner however, I would recommend the $50 K-2005 kit. This will test all of the parameters important to water balance. One more thing...there are some water testing techniques or tips that will also help improve accuracy.

Help! My pool is stained!

5/21/2010 8:18:42 AM

Stains on the pool! Nobody likes to look at a stained pool, and even fewer want to swim in a stained swimming pool! Pool stains can form from neglect or from poor source water. Plastered pools are more susceptible to stains than vinyl lined pools or fiberglass pools, so the focus of this article will be on identifying and removing stains from a plaster pool.