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Water Chemistry

Water chemistry is a very important part of pool maintenance.  It is fun and safe to swim in fresh clean water.  The clarity of your water also affects the operation and longevity of your filtration and heating equipment.  You should make it a high priority to keep your pool and spa water safe.  At Aqua Blue Designs, we build in ways to make it as easy as possible to keep your water clean, clear and safe.  Here is a brief explanation of what we do to accomplish this.  Please follow the links provided to get more detailed information from our suppliers.

Generally Speaking

Pool water chemistry should be tested and adjusted on a regular basis, at least once per week, and more often if there has been rain or heavy pool usage.  Testing should include sanitizer levels, pH levels and alkalinity levels.  With fiberglass pools, these three items are the most important.  If you have a concrete pool, you should also test for calcium hardness.  Testing can be done with a test kit or test strips.  Most test strips are accurate enough for pool water testing and are much easier to use than a test kit.  Since they take only a few second to use, you are more likely to test your water on a regular basis.  Until recently, only commercial pools have used automated water testing do to the great expense.  Goldline Controls has now introduced a new affordable system that automates testing of water.  Most of our pools use salt water chlorination to eliminate buying, handling and storing chlorine.  Fiberglass pools are made from very stable materials that do not affect water chemicals.  This means that pH and alkalinity levels are more stable than in other types of pools.