POOL CHEMISTRY 101: How to Keep Your Water Balanced | Swim University
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- Keep your pool water balanced and close to neutral, and avoid scaling, corrosion, and cloudiness, all with just three pool chemistry components. This isn't just about pool chemicals for beginners, though. Bet you could use a refresher.
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⏰ Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction to Pool Chemistry
01:10 - What Is pH
02:35 - What Is Alkalinity
04:03 - How To Balance pH and Alkalinity
08:09 - What Is Calcium Hardness
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The way you explain things is very understandable. It's like having a conversation with a friend and they're teaching you to take care of your pool. Thank you!
That's exactly what we like to hear! So happy we can help
Learned more in your 10 minute video then I did in the last week trying to understand basic pool maintenance. Thanks for making it easy to understand!
As a newby pool owner I appreciate these videos! I walked into a pool supply store for the first time in my life today and felt kinda smart ; )
i bet you also saved alot of money! they love to sell you every product under the sun
As a pool company I find your content very useful as a training tool. Keep it up.
Hey, I want to ask you about which product is good to adjust the pH and why. Between these two products, sulfuric acid (liquid or dry) and hydrochloric acid, and also about the chlorine shock, which is the best: calcium hypochlorite or TCCA (trichloroisocyanuric acid)
Thank you! Appreciate it, I've recently decided to take over responsibility of the pool since my husband is always saying i do it but never does. It's alway been green. So i've scrubbed all the algae off the tiles after shocking it. All crystal clear now. This is the next step 🙏
This is the best explanation ever. Your videos make me feel so confident about pool maintenance on my own as a new pool owner. Thank you.
This is the most helpful accessible video about how to balance my pool that I have found!
Glad it was helpful!
My PH is always trending up while my alkalinity is trending down. I just add baking soda to raise alkalinity, then a little acid to drop the PH. I do this every week or two
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Possibly because the pool store is also testing CYA and that affects the alkalinity reading. You need to know your cya reading and subtract 1/3 of it from the alkalinity reading you get at home.
@@dianeempey1umm what???? Who told you that 🤔🤔
Your pool chemistry will never remain the same. When you add in your landscapers, pest control companies, how much you use your pool, if you have animals (dogs) in your pool. Your chemicals won't stay balanced. That's the entire reason in a pool company bc your water will not stay balanced no matter how hard you try... You can be on it everyday,.but you'll always have to adjust things.
I can't thank you enough for these informative videos. I am a new pool owner and am lost. These have helped me enormously. I feel so smart now...well not really but thanks!
helping my mom out by taking over the pool cleaning so she wont have to pay and ur videos are what are helping me keep it clean otherwise she was gonna cover the pool with dirt! so thank you
Your video gives new pool owner like me a fundamental and good knowledge on water balance and keeping. Thank you.
You do a great job explaining things. Thanks.
Great video. Best explanation of water testing and water adjustment yet. Great Job
I wish this industry would STANDARDIZE these chemical names! Even between stores, they call the same additive completely different names! Please, just pick ONE CHEMICAL NAME, and stick with THAT.🤦🏼
I’ll bring the popcorn! 😅 Thanks for the info.
He know his business and how to teach!!! Outstanding Video..
You're awesome! Haha. Thank you! I'm overwhelmed by this pool chemistry and you help so much!
These videos have been extremely helpful to me as a new pool owner
This is very informational content, thank you so much for explaining it. Short and direct.
Way to kick that knowledge straight guy! Well done.
Thanks man, Now my pool is crystal. And my skin dosn't peel anymore. Needed PH up (soda ash) too fix 2 things. Thanks again for explaining the importance of PH and acidity.
Thank you for all your information!!! You are great splain everything!!!👍
Best video I’ve seen on pool maintenance!
thanks from new pool chem salesman, this video really helped to solidify my knowledge.
It has all worked for me. Thank you!!
Thanks for the information sir. Very helpful!
just bought a 12 ft pool for the season and i also bought a house with a 20ft by 30ft in ground pool that i will be moving in only in october so this little pool will help me learn the pool chemistry for this summer
great video
Thank you I learned so much!
Thank you so much for the help
Truly WELL expressed.
thank you sir for sharing this knowledge about pool this video help my work to clean a pool my work...!!👍
Well done. Thank you.
Awesome video! Thank you so much!
Thank you. As always great reminder. GBY
Excellent video. Thank you.
Thanks... That was crystal clear
Fantastic info. Thank you
Thanks for the advice and heads up on my pool:)
Very helpful. Thank you.
Thank you very helpful and very easy for me to understand.
Amazing and really very good work it helped me in many other different things
Many Thanks and all the best to you and everyone with you
loved your instructions.
why do people DISLIKE this video
Thank you
Thx for this vid Been having lots of Trouble balancing ph and alkalinity ❤️❤️❤️
You're welcome! Hope it helps :-)
Thanks for the very informative videos! I really appreciate all the time you take to try and educate us about pool maintenance!
How can I find out how many gallons my pool is? Nobody could give me an answer when I purchased my home...
Length x width x average depth x 7.5 = volume (in gallons)
Multiplying that by the average depth gives the volume in cubic feet. Since there are 7.5 gallons in each cubic foot, multiply the cubic feet of the pool by 7.5 to arrive at the volume of the pool (expressed in gallons).
Thanks for the info Dude.
Thank you. I was going crazy I have a pool it’s only 650 gal no perimeters so I had to make it up but now I know.
Great video👍
Thanks very informative 👍
Any chance you could do a video on how to accurately read test strips?
Test strips are hard to read. They are typically vague. I would recommend only the ones that take drops from the reagents. A pool is a big investment, worth it to spend the few extra bucks to properly maintain it. False readings could lead you to costing yourself more money, better to go with a more reliable testing method.
The hat is awesone by the way!!
"Nice!" Very thorough!"
This was suuuuper helpful and it’s the first vid I’ve watched lol
Thanks dude !!
A very informative video well done
Its a pure science,,gotta keep up every day, once it gets outta balance you have to work harder
Nice and clear…. My pool water, and the information
Good video
LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!!! Thank you! What do I do about my 15kgal pool as it's off the charts on hardness and with the drought we cannot drain and refill? I'm in Southern California. Help PLEASE!
WOW great info
Nice way to explain, you are awesome.
Great videos! So glad I joined Swim University! My pool company is suggesting adding a Ph monitor with dosing pump and acid tank to manage Ph in my pool. Anyone have experience with this setup?
Nice video, you mention about increasing water hardness and what to use, what do you use when you live in a hard water area and need to soften the water?
some pool stores will have these pillows that soften water, such as the freshwater brand, but its usually used in hot tubs. id search around for something akin to that :)
Thanks 😊👍 😍
Thank you!!!
I’m will putting up my pool this weekend. Wanting to do the bbb method how much bleach, baking soda, and borax should I put in for a 18x4 above ground pool? These videos are awesome, I’m just not good with pool chemistry..
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I'm new to pools! Maybe a video on salt water pools, need to knows and hows?!
Will do!
My PH is absolutely spot on but my alkalinity is too high. No idea why. Is it possible to have one high and other not. Do you think it’s the test? I’m a newbie 😅
Jessica J I have exactly this same issue!!! ph is spot on but alkalinity is at 250
Bhangra Hindi it’s driving me nuts!
I’ve got a question about calcium hardness in plaster pools. I’ve heard that if you have too high of a calcium level that its not a problem if you keep the LSI in check by lowering the ph and alkalinity. With a low calcium pool would raising the ph and alkalinity solve that issue, or will calcium still be pulled from the plaster no matter what you do with the LSI?
If someone see’s this and knows, I’ll take an answer from anyone.
It was helpful!!!
I already know how to balance a pool but I do like to watch these videos as a refresher before I actually open my pool for the year just so that way I don’t screw something up.
Do you let it go green or do you drain it?
Know your ORP value. But that's next level stuff.
Thx
i liked your video it was helpful if the ph s 7.9 and alklanilty is really high do you think we need to decrease our water in the pool we was told that do you think that necessary
THANK YOU SO MUCH
Great help 😊
Super awesome video! I home brew so the ph and alkalinity information was understandable, but I was not sure how this knowledge transferred to pool water. Great explanation and clear delivery. Thanks yo!
I used to cook meth so maintaining my new pool came pretty easily to me as well.
He just made my pool store look like complete idiots! Cause they are! Love the video dude..
I don't own a pool, yet this is interesting to learn. Pool maintenance really is as big as construction of a pool itself.
I love your videos. Thank you! Somewhere you had a link to your store and a starter list and I can’t find it again. I just took over our pool maintenance (a 7500 gallon tiny inground pool). I’ll keep hunting for the store you’d shared. But I need to buy pool chemicals pronto!
You can find everything you need on our website! www.swimuniversity.com/
Great vido!video!! Learned alot.. how soon after adding alkalinity up can u swim??
My above ground pool is 13summers old and not once have i ever checked my pool for anything just use chlorine tablets pool is always crystal clear with no problems at all with it.
Great video very informative , this man always has me feeling relax and stress free 💯
Hey, the lesson was great it helped some. But I have an 8 persons salt water hot tub does the same chemistry ably with salt water?
I like it. It is very helpful..
Always good info. I have an Anthony Sylvan gunite pool and they recommend a high calcium range from 225-375 ppm. I try to keep it at about 300.
cardo that’s fine.
300 is perfect 👌. You had (10 months ago) a brand new plaster, if the water is thirsty for calcium, it will get it from the fresh plaster, the freshly drank calcium from the plaster will increase ph so fast and so rapid the calcium will no longer chelate and fall from suspension and leave you with "plaster dust" which is calcium hydroxide.
I enjoyed & learned from the video. FYI, though, the couple of times you put your website URL in the video, it's misspelled (the second time is at 9:54.) Thanks for posting these!
Are the measurements of the chemicals by weight or by volume for powders and granules?
Do you have any videos on mineral pools, such as magnapool?
My tester only has reagents for testing Ph and Cl, how do I test for alkalinity?
Great. The best information yet. Thanks!
Does the Baking Soda / Clorox and Borax work for the PH / Alkalinity levels in a Salt Water above ground Pool ?
Do you have videos for above ground salt water pools with a Intex Krystal Clear Saltwater System with E.C.O. (Electrocatalytic Oxidation)
I just started a job at a pool supply company. Par of mybjob is to test water. I had no idea how difficult it was going to be. What would u say I should focus on to help me begin to really connect the dots and understand what I'm doing? Thanks so much
My alkalinity test comes out perfect 100, it's my PH that is off the charts, it's really high. I didn't see a recommendation for that. Does anyone have an opinion?
Hi I use a UV steriliser to reduce the chlorine content so have you any advice for using this system ?
He mentioned high ph is less common but that seems to be my constant situation with my above ground pool. I constantly have to adjust my pool with ph minus. What makes my ph go so far up. I have a 7k gallon pool with a sand filter.
Hi I just completed administering the 6 hrs alkalinity boosting process. Do I return the pump to filter
What can you buy to increase calcium hardness apart from adding little bits of it with pool shock?
Thanks 🙏
Is there a good digital test device to get accurate measures of PH, alkalinity and others?
I have a salt pool. i have always have high pH, and normal alkalinity, or low from time to time. 8.0 pH is norm. Any advice?
Yeah I have a question how do I lower my ph(9.0+) and alkalinity (240+)? I have tried using muriatic acid and ph down an my ph and alkalinity are still up there.