Safety Pool Cover company, LOOP-LOC, Discusses 6 Chemicals Needed to Close Your Pool this Season

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., Oct. 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Leaves are changing colors, temperatures are dropping, and department stores are already setting up their holiday displays (is that a Christmas tree?) in excited anticipation. Fall has arrived, and winter is not too far behind. What does this mean? It's time to close your pool for the off-season. Getting ready to close your pool is a process, but it's a process that's made easier with a little guidance. Safety pool cover company, LOOP-LOC, compiled a list of the 6 chemicals you'll need to close up your pool this season. Make sure you get them all!

1. Sanitizer: a strong dose of sanitizer is also known as shock, often chlorine or an alternative like bromine or permonosulfate. A smaller dose can be known as an oxidizer. The sanitizer is the most important chemical in your pool, keeping away bacteria and dissolving organic matter in the water– basically, it's the reason your pool water is clean enough to swim in. Your free chlorine is key to your pool's health and yours, so take care to balance chlorine levels properly. Remember to shock your pool a day or two in advance of adding other chemicals; it may cancel out the effects if added to close together.
2. pH Adjusters: whether your pH needs to go up (soda ash) or down (muriatic or granular acid), you want to make sure that the pool is not too acidic nor basic. The ideal pH for your pool is between 7.4 and 7.6, so keep track as you add other chemicals in case they affect the pH.
3. Water Hardness Adjusters: water hardness, or calcium hardness, is the amount of dissolved calcium in your water. Too high and you'll see a cloudy pool with water scale, but too low and your water will become corrosive. Maintain a hardness level between 200-400 ppm with adjusters like calcium chloride, muriatic acid, and sodium bisulfate, with the first increasing hardness and the latter two decreasing it.
4. Alkalinity Adjusters: alkalinity of your pool affects the testing of your other levels, so make sure it's balanced at a level between 80 and 120 ppm. To increase it, add sodium bicarbonate; to decrease it, add muriatic or granular acid. Keep these additives at low doses to avoid throwing off the pH.
5. Algaecide: algaecide is a key piece of your winterizing kit, fending off algae growth under your cover during the off-season. You're going to need a pretty strong dose or double dose to last the winter, but make sure to add it when the chlorine levels are below 3.0 ppm to let it work effectively.
6. Scale-inhibitor/Metal Sequestrant: these two chemicals are different, but serve a similar purpose: to keep metal stains off your liner and pool parts. If your pool water has a high metal presence, it could cause discoloration on the liner or railings. These additives prevent those stains by keep metals in the water from oxidizing onto surfaces. Scale inhibitors also prevent water cloudiness, but if you properly adjust the water hardness your water should be crystal clear.

Even if this list seems like a lot of chemicals, each one has its own purpose in your pool water. Just know that each additive is doing its job to keep your pool clean and blue all winter long, so when the flowers bloom again you can open up to the sparkling water you missed all winter long.

About LOOP-LOC: There's only one company known for manufacturing safety pool covers strong and tough enough to support an elephant: the legendary LOOP-LOC. LOOP-LOC is a global leader in the pool industry with a 200,000-square-foot headquarters in Hauppauge, New York, and 300 employees. Through its network of dealers, the company has sold safety swimming pool covers on every continent on earth except Antarctica. LOOP-LOC now also manufactures a line of luxury in-ground pool liners—with more exclusive designer patterns than any other company—as well as the BABY-LOC removable fencing, a convenient, cost-effective additional layer of protection to help deter toddlers from gaining access to a swimming pool.

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