POOL CHEMICAL SYSTEMS
There are as many ways to take care of a pool as there are people to take care of them.
This is a brief over view of the various paths you might take.Â
All of the paths should end up at the same point in the end. Clear water.
THE FIRST FORK IN THE ROAD
CHLORINE OR NON-CHLORINE
The vast majority of pool owners choose the chlorine path. They had a pool, worked at the Y or something else allows them to already be familiar with chlorine.
Many people think there is a pool that is chemical free or that "salt water" actually does something.
If that were true, nothing would be swimming in the ocean, duh.
We will try to educate you a little bit here without boring you.
Virtually everything you read about caring for a pool revolves around chlorine.
All the devices and products sold that are not chlorine, are something to enhance or reduce the amount of chlorine required to keep the pool clean.
It doesn't matter what "it" adds or takes away, if you read the directions it will still say you need to add chlorine to your pool.
Pretty much only one product on the market effectively replaces chlorine and it's called biguanide.
The actual name is a mile long so everyone just calls it that.
For you science nerds reading this and want to fight me over bromine not being chlorine, technically you are correct. But since almost no one uses it in their pool and because I promised in the paragraph above not to bore people, we are not going to cover that here.