Archive For The “Alkalinity” Category
Voted one of the “Most Valuable Products for 2008!” by Aquatics International Magazine, the Lamotte Color Q Pro 7 tests for seven critical pool and spa water parameters: Free Chlorine, Total Chlorine, Bromine, pH, Alkalinity, Calcium Hardness, and Cyanuric Acid. It comes with either TesTabs or liquid reagents and has a 6-month manufacturer’s warranty. Below [...]
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 [...]
Everyone always wants to know what levels of chlorine (tablets & powders), pH (pH increaser & pH decreaser), alkalinity, calcium hardness, TDS, and stabilizer they ought to have in their pool.
Too bad a vinyl liner pool in Upstate Michigan usually requires a different set of water chemistry parameters than a gunite pool in Southern Arizona… [...]
OK, so you have probably WAITED with baited breath for us to post this collection of pool chemicals, pool testing supplies and more… so here you go!
Enjoy the weekend!
2-Way Test Kits
4-Way Test Kits
Cyanuric Acid Test Kits
Taylor Deluxe Test Kits
Taylor FAS DPD Complete
Taylor Service Test Kits
Water Check Bacteria Tests
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We’ve talked a lot about the eXact Micro 7+ Pool Testing Meter and would now like to introduce you another pool testing meter called the Aquachek Tru Test Reader which works in a completely different manner.
The Aquachek Tru Test Reader uses special three-way test strips instead of reagents added by drop, tablet, reagentstrip, powder, etc. [...]
EXACT® MICRO 7+ KIT FOR POOL WATER
Manufacturer: INDUSTRIAL TEST SYSTEMSPart Number: 486691-KPCost: $249.99
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Once you have tested your pool water for all the important parameters (free chlorine, total chlorine, pH, alkalinity, calcium hardness, stabilizer, iron, copper, etc.) with one of the following testing methods, you will need the right pool water balancing chemicals to [...]
We have mentioned the eXact Micro 7+ Pool & Spa Testing Meter numerous times on this site but we have not, as of yet that we can recall, simply listed the pool water parameters it tests along with the detection limits.
In addition to the eleven pool & spa related water parameters listed above, the meter [...]
Sam from Georgia wrote in and asked,
I badgered my husband into taking the cover off the pool last weekend at our new house. The cover ripped part way off the pool and dumped a lot of ’stuff’ into the water. Should we wait to test until all the junk gets removed? And what [...]