POOL CHEMICALS for BEGINNERS: How to Test and Balance Water

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Swim University makes pool and hot tub care easy for millions of homeowners. Each year, we continue to help more people with water chemistry, cleaning, and troubleshooting. We know taking care of a swimming pool or spa can be difficult. And it’s hard to find a trusted source of information. This is the reason we created Swim University.

Need help understanding pool chemicals? Not quite sure how to actually test and balance your water? Knowing what to test and when can save you from big pool problems in the future. So here’s a quick guide on how to test and balance your pool chemicals.

⏰ Timestamps:
00:00 - Pool Chemicals for Beginners
00:46 - Water Testing 101
01:09 - How to Collect a Water Sample
01:50 - How to Read Test Strips
03:57 - What Pool Chemicals You Need
04:27 - How to Add Chemicals to Your Pool
04:54 - Right Order to Add Chemicals
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👏👏👏 good job dude, thank you so much, I'm definitely buying your product

Jonathanbarros
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Excellent video. Thank you so much. Subbed and liked the video

KaliforniaKurupted
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First. 👍👍👍
Perfect, today's the day I'm opening up the pool.

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I’m signing up for your video subscription

eddiehernandez
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Oh man, I bought a small 10'×6'×24" pool and thought it was gonna be easy to maintain and cheap. Goodness, I had no Idea I needed so many things to keep this little thing up. Water was crystal clear for the first week. Started geting a little cloudy, so I bought some 1 inch chlorine tablets and some baking soda. I put in one tablet and a hand full of baking soda. Now my pool water is yellow😂😂😂. I dont know what to do....This is well water, so i read it could be the metal in the water but Idk.

anonymousf
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Thank you. Hired a pool company to open my pool this season, $800 and 5 days later it’s still cloudy. Lousy company.

HotSauceStain
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Hi man, you have all my respect for giving ur time to actually explain those things to us, but i have a slightly little problem in my pool, i have checked my clorine and ph levels and fixed them, and then i added floc, and everything went greate, i vacuumed it all and stiil has a green color, it looks like it s clean but it s green clean, i really need your help, should the alkalinity be the problem here? I have to mention that i tooked the water from a swamp and it was brown at the beggining

marcodanieleisachi
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Thank you! Recently moved to a home with a hot tub and I don't know Jack 😂

ginoj
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Thanks for the informative video! 👍👍. Do I need to worry about CYA? I have an above ground pool, but I keep it covered with solar cover and a tarp when not in use. Thank you!!

ladycaruso
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All my readings are where they need to be my pump & sand filter are working fine but my water is still cloudy & I’ve been using cal hypo & liquid shock what do you recommend?

nunya
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I have a question for you . When I do the test with the Stripe and the messures are not consistent with the normal color that they are in range, how do I know how much do I have to put chemicals in the water?

johncarlos
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Me accidentally put in my 7 000liter pool chlorine tablet for 20 000liter, what i need to do next? Change all water?

deivixs
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I can NOT get my PH and TA to go down I’ve used 2 gallons so far of MA … what should I do

tanetrablaylock
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I have a 14tf pool in my garage, I try to mantain it as clean as possible but everytime i check for chlorine Im low😢 I shock it with a 1/4 of 1 pound bag of clorox shock from walmart. My pool is 3500 gallons. Should I throw the whole bag or just get a floter with a chlorine tablet? I will appreciate the advice pls

MiguelAlvarezAdams
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Thanks mate for the informative video. I look after 2 pools a 25m pool and 50m pool olympic standard. I have been facing problems with a strong stain greenish algae on the side of the pool. I tried to brush it off but didn't work. Any suggestions?
Thanks once again 👌🙏

bigbroexplore
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PH 7 is neutral and the Chlorine is actually really to dry out your teenage dream pimples. California Ladies are Undprgettable.🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤😮😮😮😊😊😊😊

DannyAranda-xcvb
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Helpful but not quite for total beginners. For example, you talked about adding chemicals based on test results but you didn't mention how much to add ? How do we determine that based on test results ?

codegeek-ilfm
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I’m using Clorox six and one shock is that good enough?

eddiehernandez
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I have read so many different things about how long to wait to use a test strip after adding chemicals. Do you have a rule of thumb or specific knowledge to help me?

brittanyschroyer
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With a salt water pool where CYA is added manually and kept in range, which is better, dichlor shock or oxidizer, for refreshing free chlorine without increasing CYA? I’m having trouble finding non-stabilized dichlor shock or shock products that specifically states no added CYA. If oxidizer is best in my case, any recommendations? Thanks for all the excellent, well-produced videos!

Morgan_Davis