What's the RIGHT Order to Add POOL CHEMICALS? | Swim University

What’s the right order to add pool chemicals? Adding chemicals in the proper sequence will help you avoid wasting time and money. So here’s the right order to add chemicals to your pool.

⏰ Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction to The Right Order to Add Pool Chemicals
00:29 - What Levels To Test For
01:13 - What Pool Chemicals Do You Need?
01:44 - How to Add Pool Chemicals
01:58 - The Right Order to Add Pool Chemicals

Swim University has made swimming pool and hot tub care easy for more than 10 million homeowners. And 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. We get it! This is the reason we created Swim University.

[FirstNameLastName-ngsv]

I have to maintain two pools every day for work, one is 25000 gallons and the other is 35000 gallons. Let me tell you from the point of someone who has never dealt with a pool before, I am lost. But I'm getting a hang of it. Finding videos like this really helps. Thank you, good sir.

[McAnultyBunch]

I’m new to the pool owning world, I bought a house with a Intex pool and I am trying so hard to not get frustrated with the work and chemicals that goes into having one lol.

[SwimUniversity]

We hope this helps you when it's time to add chemicals to your pool! Remember, adjusting alkalinity and then pH is critical to helping your chlorine (or other sanitizer) do its job. And if you need more pool care help, grab the free Pool Care Cheat Sheet at 👍

[cyndis]

Thank you for your videos. I bought a home in October with a huge inground pool. I'm so overwhelmed. All pool companies have a 6 week delay for appts. I have never had a pool. I watched your videos and headed to buy chemicals now. Thank you!!

[jatw]

Just an FYI for anyone using a dropper. The measurement for a drop is from the upside down completely vertically position of the bottle/dropper. The drop size when having a bottle/dropper tilted like in the beginning of the video is not the measurement used so it could be way low or high depending on how it rolls off the tip. 3 "drops" from a tilted bottle could be 1.5 or 6 so your readings may not be accurate for testing.

[aerieleah]

I was just hired for a part time gig at a pool chemistry store, so your videos have been a godsend on teaching me what I need to know. I'm sure I will need to reference a ton, but I just wanted to thank you for these easy to understand guides.

[marcimichaels]

This is great! But….you say add this and that but you don’t indicate how much to add of each product. I have an above ground pool going in today, around 6k gallons. Help! Thx!

[lughnacide]

Be careful to not add Alkalinity adjusters and Hardness adjusters on the same day. Especially Alkalinity raisers that contain sodium bicarbonate and Hardness raisers containing calcium chloride which are the two I use (they are actually just straight Arm and Hammer industrial baking soda and industrial calcium chloride). These two chemical interact when mixed together and form calcium carbonate (antacid) which will precipitate out and cloud up the pool.

At least that's the case with the one I maintain which is 55, 000 gallons. May be different for smaller pools but I wouldn't risk it.

[Tani]

Thank you so much for such detailed information. First time pool owner and I have headaches with all the chemicals 🙈

[donlouthest]

Is there a way i can know how much of each chemical to put into my pool?

[amyyoungblood]

You mixed up cya levels for salt and chlorine pools. Should be between 30-50 for salt pools because there is a constant make of chlorine that the salt turns into. You don't need a high stabilizer on salt pools.... Been in the business commercial and residential for quite some time so I'm only trying to help.

[erickrhernandez]

Great info if your a pool owner. But I’m a pool service man. (Still learning this trade) I don’t have time to wait 30 minutes to pour in chlorine followed by muratic acid followed by alkalinity etc etc… so does this order of sequence change?

[bjanice]

Thanks for the videos and cheat sheets. They are so helpful.

When do we add algaecide? The pool opening kit said to add it every week for maintenance. 🤷🏾‍♀️

[janjaf]

With your help i think my pool has hope. I had the green pool but even brushing and vacuuming wasn't touching the algea.... little did I know that alkalinity and ph was important in shocking pool. In last week I added about 6 shocks and were inefective... but then I added alk increaser and tweeked ph a bit finally noticed algea loosening up and when I brush see a bit of blue water. I added 2 of those 6 in 1shocks so hopefully kiddos can finally swim in their pool Again. Should I add a thing of liquid chlorine? Or just chlorine tabs? Thank you so much.

[marziehkhandani]

Hi, our pool is closed, water is cloudy and we can’t see the bottom of pool. Is there any way to clean water when pool pump is not running?

[baharbahadori]

What if the PH is down and alkalinity is up? Using PH decreasing to lower Alkalinity while PH is down, what to do in that situation?

[dee.ego.]

Just purchase a home and these videos have helped me so much .
Thank you

[bassranger]

Here in southern Texas if we don't keep the Ch lvl a 5 or above you risk algae build. Even with a perfectly balanced chemistry it will happen quickly. And not sure if you got it backwards or if it's just different where you are but our cya lvls are opposite of what you said, salt is 40-60 and ch is 70-85. We do keep our salt pools at a 1-3 ch though

[ILoveChanelLynn]

This video helped me so much. Thank you I appreciate you. New pool & spa owner ha ha 🙏🙌😜🌊 much appreciated

[dirkbolin]

Does pool temperature make a difference for breaking down chemicals?