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Pool Chemicals Baking Soda

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I need some help with the pool chemicals.?

What do I use to lower the ph level in the pool?
What do I use to raise the ph level?

I have a store bought stabilizer?
I have soda ash?
I have baking soda?
I have Muratec acid?

To reduce the ph level you use sodium bi-sulphate also called ph down
To increase the ph level you use a product called ph up or soda ash

Stabilizer is used to protect your chlorine from being ineffective especially under the suns rays
Baking Soda is used to raise the alkalinity of your water which should be around 70-120
Muriatic acid can be used to lower alkalinity if pillared otherwise it reduces ph
Soda Ash is a water softener / ph increaser

Hope that helps. Personally i prefer to use powdered chemicals for reducing ph as it is safer to store then muriatic
acid since it eats thru its container in time.

Like the other responder said add chemicals in small amounts especially with regards to ph as you will end up bouncing around a lot otherwise

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Pool Chemicals Bleach

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Instead of buying expensive pool chemicals, can I just add bleach to my pool?

There is a ton of misinformation in the posts above. Clorox is roughly 6% sodium hypochlorite and the rest is water with a tiny bit of salt. Liquid pool chlorine is normally 10-12% sodium hypochlorite and the rest is water with a tiny bit of salt. THEY ARE IDENTICAL except for strength. Clorox is and has been used in thousands of pools daily. It’s not neccesarily cheaper, but frequently more convenient. More importantly, Sodium hypochlorite is, by far, the BEST thing you can sanizite a pool with. Simply because nothing gets added to your pool except the little bit of salt. All other forms of chlorine add other things to your pool….many of which can accumulate over time and cause unwanted side effects. There is an entire forum dedicated to this principle…www.troublefreepool.com…..check it out.

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Swimming Pool Chemicals Baking Soda

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Is it legal to '24 bleach to your pool?

I have an above-ground pool that has become green during winter. I had the Water Weeks tested twice during the last three and I have cleared my chemicals but it is still green. I replaced the filter cartridge (and clean it and remove It twice a day) and shock-and super-shock "4 times and used alge remover twice. A friend recommended by several gallons of bleach with baking soda. You swear! I spent tons of $ and still have a green pool? Does bleach hurt the filter or liner? done shock X-tra Blue, and that the glass of water, green = water ….. I have a service-testing pool and they can not believe that it's green, because everything is balanced? I am very fustrated. Thanks Doogie, but I do not have a cartridge filter Sand and bought two new filter cartridge three weeks ago, I change twice a day, it is clean, while the other runs. more options?

I a 27 'above ground pool and wore my blanket during the winter, and I had the same problem. Mine is now clear. I have in 3 liters of algaecide (if your water is green, then the pain is still alive), my constant pH, chlorine tested and stored at a high level and run the filter continuously. It took about one weeks before I see the bottom of the pool. Dead postherpetic the floor, and when I'm in water I stir in a vacuum, so I am a bottle and threw it clearifier and the pump can run for a few days and the problem solved. Hope this helps.

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