Experts' Advice: Water Care

Tips on maintaining proper water balance

Expert Advice from Biolab, Inc. Brian Trenck
Technical Services Analyst - Biolab, Inc.


"For optimal water quality, proper pH is critical. You want to prevent disease, protect equipment and provide the expected environment, and pH plays a key role in all of those. When the pH falls out of range, it decreases sanitizer effectiveness, can corrode heaters and other equipment or cause scaling."

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Expert Advice from Advantis Technologies John Puetz
Vice President of Research and Development - Advantis Technologies


"Heavy rain can affect sanitizer levels. It dilutes the sanitizer and brings a lot of nitrogen into the pool. Nitrogen fertilizes algae. Our atmosphere is 75 percent nitrogen. The rain picks it up and returns it to the earth, including our swimming pools."

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Expert Advice from ESL, Inc. Lawrence McLeroy
Director of Technology, Research and Development - Earth Science Laboratories, Inc., manufacturer of Pristine Blue


"The advantage of copper is that it doesn't evaporate from the sanitizing system. It's easy to use and maintain a pool with a copper sanitizing system. There is less chemistry."

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