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  Over the course of the time you spend using your swimming pool, contaminates will inevitably find their way into the water – not least the sweat, saliva, skin cells, and urine that humans introduce. That’s before one considers sources of contamination from the broader environment, such as dirt, leaves, and bugs.  This underscores the importance of “shocking” a swimming pool. This is the process of adding a high concentration of chemicals to the water to drive up the chlorine level, as a way of destroying contaminants.  Chlorine Shock granules , such as those in our range here at Pool Warehouse, are routinely used for this purpose. The goal when using these products is to raise the levels of free chlorine in the pool to about 10 parts per million (ppm) or more, although it is crucial to ensure these levels have dropped to below 3ppm before resuming use of the pool.    Why is it so critically important to ‘shock’ a swimming pool?    As y...

  One of the topics that gets mentioned most often on the subject of swimming pool chemistry, is water balance. This term refers to how well  swimming pool chemicals  are “balanced” – or in other words, the condition of the water when the pH, total alkalinity (TA), calcium hardness, and dissolved solids levels are optimal for the temperature of the pool.  You will, then, naturally want to maintain water balance in your swimming pool, and here at Pool Warehouse, we stock an extensive range of products to help make this a reality. There are many great reasons to prioritise water balance  There can be certain classic signs of pool water being imbalanced in one direction or another – for example, the pool liner becoming wrinkled, the heater element corroding, stains appearing on the wall of the pool, and/or the water becoming cloudy.  Such effects are clearly inconvenient, undesirable, and expensive. They accelerate the deterioration of your swimming ...