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There is no bible or standard pool care guide to go by when it comes to taking care of your swimming pool. One of the biggest reasons for this is because every single swimming pool is different. What your neighbors does with his swimming pool may or may not work for yours. However, there are a few tips that I can share to make swimming pool care a breeze.

It doesn’t matter if we are talking about inground pool care or above ground pool care the fact remains that every pool is different, but there are some similar tips you can use for either. Chemicals for your swimming pool are very important and there are three chemicals that absolutely need to be watched for at all times, the sanitizer, the oxidizer and the pH balance. If you keep these three readings at the proper level you will not have a problem all year long.

The sanitizer would be your chlorine, bromine, mineral pack, salt, biguanide or whatever type you use. It’s what keeps the pool free from harmful bacteria.  These levels should be right ALL THE TIME. The oxidizer is a fancy word for shock. Every pool sanitizer has a shock and you need to use it weekly or bi-weekly or monthly depending on what type of sanitizer you use.

The final is the pH balance. If you pH balance is off then you will waste your other chemicals including the sanitizer and the shock. Your pH balance is the measure of acidity or bases in your pool water. A lower pH is more acidic like ACID! And a high pH is like swimming in baby powder (I’m trying to make sense of this, haha). So you want to keep your pH right in the middle and this level should be checked more frequently than the rest.