Blue Horizons Total Alkalinity Reducer 5 Litre

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It weakens your sanitizer. Chlorine sanitizing power is strongest at lower pH levels, so as your pH rises, your water becomes less protected against contaminants like algae. Once you have adjusted the alkalinity, depending on your pool’s need. Make sure to retest your pool water after three days. The three days will allow the pool chemicals to adjust the total alkalinity of your swimming pool. Lowering your total alkalinity is simply a process of “using up” the buffer it provides in the form of acid absorption. In other words, you just need to give it some acid to chew on. Your total alkalinity should be between 100 and 150 parts per million (ppm). And your pH should be between 7.4 and 7.6. Anything much higher or lower will disrupt your water chemistry, affect your pool’s ability to sanitize, and can damage your pool equipment in the long run. How Do Alkalinity and pH Affect Each Other?

Alkalinity is a buffer to your pool water’s pH, helping keep your pH levels from fluctuating drastically. So balancing your total alkalinity is important to maintain consistent pH levels.

What If the pH and Alkalinity Won’t Balance?

If you already know how much water your pool holds (in gallons), you can skip this step, otherwise, you’ll need to whip out your tape measure and calculator. If your total alkalinity is too low, there’s not enough of this helpful buffering chemical in the water to help stabilize your pH. When your total alkalinity is too high, the elevated alkalinity may cause your pH level to rise. And that can reduce the effectiveness of the chlorine in your water. Most pool testing kits allow you to test your total alkalinity, along with pH, free chlorine, calcium hardness, and cyanuric acid. HTH SPA pH Minus Micro Balls pH Reducer works to lower your pool waters pH balance using Dry Acid. Dose rate can be doubled in hard water pools. Available in 2kg tubs. Indeed, pH determines how effective chlorine will be in non-stabilized pools. So in pools with no cyanuric acid (CYA), the lower the pH, the stronger chlorine will be, because pH controls the dissociation equilibria between strong and weak chlorine:

We just need one more number before you start measuring out the acid dosage, and that’s your pool volume. Important: Using any acid in your water will also lower total alkalinity, this is unavoidable. If your alkalinity falls too much during this process, don’t panic; we will correct the alkalinity in the last step. 4. Add the Acid to Your Water Alkalinity cannot be measured in real-time with probes, at least with today's technology. Perhaps someday it will be possible, but for now, we must rely on titration or color-change on a test strip. The most common titration is with liquid reagents, where each drop is counted as it neutralizes more and more of the sample until the color changes. Follow your test kit manufacturer's instructions. First, the pH of your eyes (or tears, specifically) depends on how hydrated you are. One published study showed the pH of human tears in 44 test subjects ranged from 6.5 to 7.6. 1

How Do Alkalinity and pH Affect Each Other?

Your pool pump should also be left running to help circulate the acid and prevent it from concentrating in one area of your pool and potentially damaging your plaster or liner. 3. Allow Time for the Acid to Circulate Keep the pump running for at least an hour to allow the muriatic acid to fully circulate into your water, and twice that for large pools.