Archive For May, 2010
In recent years the popularity of ’salt water pools’ has increased dramatically. Consumers love the convenience offered by chlorine generators that use ordinary table salt to continuously generate chlorine in their swimming pools.
Chlorine generators break down NaCl (salt) molecules using a process called electrolysis which eventually produces hypochlorous acid(HOCl) and sodium hypochlorite (NaClO), the sanitizing [...]
As the 2010 Swimming Season approaches many of you have opened the shed, peered into the garage, begun rummaging through the pool house, etc. in the hopes of finding all the gadgets and gizmos you used last year to keep your pool sparkling clean.
Among those gadgets and gizmos you most likely had some sort of [...]
At one time if you lived in an area and your water contained high levels of elements like calcium and magnesium your only option for water softening systems involved the use of salt-based water softening systems which worked well, but required periodic draining… which meant the discharging of brine water into the environment.
States such as [...]
Although private pool owners do not have to abide by any laws when it comes to the frequency of testing and type of test they carry out when testing their pool water, operators of public swimming facilities must often follow strict guidelines and use specific equipment.
dpd tablets
dpd powder
As an example, pretty much every state requires [...]
In all honesty, we had no idea refractometers had so many uses in so many different industries: Automotive industry uses refractometers to analyze antifreeze and transmission fluids Wine growers use refractometers to measure the amount of sugar in their product at various times Environmentalists an use refractometers to measure the salinity (saltiness) of water. … [...]
Over the years we have dealt with WAY too many people who had trouble getting their pool ‘right’ after opening it — because they DIDN’T add the necessary pool water balancing chemicals at the beginning of the season.
Please don’t let yourself fall in that desperate, sad category! Test your water if ya’ know what to [...]
Last year we published a blog entry called Peeing in the Swimming Pool… Americans Admit Doing It and many of you thought we made the whole thing up… but we didn’t. Take a look at the following article, published 5/20/2010, and you will understand why we urged, and continue to urge, people to take the [...]
… for mosquitoes unless pool owners maintain proper pool water quality. It only takes a few days for most pool water to become the perfect place for a female mosquito to drop off a few (hundred) eggs.
Culex mosquitoes lay their eggs on the surface of fresh or stagnant water. The water may be in tin [...]
Back in the old days a technician would break out some soapy water and coat areas of an air or gas line he/ suspected of leaking and wait to see if any bubbles formed. We imagine that after a few accidental electrocutions, because water and high voltage equipment typically do not mix, someone came up [...]
Any good gardener knows that plants will NOT grow at the right pace or the correct way without the proper balance of light around them, moisture in their soil, and the correct pH balance in their soil. While some folks naturally have a ‘green thumb’ and can get all three of those factors perfectly balanced [...]