Adding Chlorine Stabilizer To Your Swimming Pool
What is Chlorine Stabilizer? If you use pool shock or any other type of unstabilized chlorine to sanitize your pool then you are wasting chlorine. You can get your chlorine to last much longer and be a lot more efficient by using chlorine stabilizer.
Chlorine Stabilizer is an organic compound and it’s purpose is to keep the chlorine in your swimming pool lasting longer. It keeps it in there by not letting the chlorine get oxidized by the sun.
Add chlorine stabilizer at the beginning of the pool season. Keeping your stabilizer at 40ppm will ensure proper chlorine stabilization. Keep a close eye on it since your stabilizer levels and rise and fall due to water loss or rising by adding stabilized chlorine products.
Here Is How You Add Chlorine Stabilizer To Your Pool 1. First you must clean your filter out. Just backwash your filter or rinse your cartridge if you have a cartridge filter.
2. To get 40ppm in your pool, most products require you to add 1lb. of stabilizer per 3,000 gallons of pool water. Not all products are the same, check the directions or ask your local pool supplier where you bought it from.
3. We are going to add the stabilizer to your filter system by SLOWLY pouring the product into the skimmer allowing it to pass through your pool filter system.
4. Now keep your filter running for about 24 hours or more and do not backwash your filter during this time.
Why do you add chlorine stabilizer to your filter system and not directly into the pool? Because chlorine stabilizer dissolves very very slow by adding it to your pool directly will cause it to lay on the bottom of your pool for a long time.
If you have any problems or additional questions we advice to contact your local pool supplier.