Every pool owner must be familiar with the term ‘chlorine’ since it’s one of the most important chemicals that you have to add to the water. The main job of chlorine is to kill the harmful contaminants so you can swim around the pool with hygiene water safely.
There are actually three types of chlorine in your pool water which are; free chlorine, combined chlorine, and total chlorine. Each one of them has to be maintained properly (in other words, should be in an ideal range) in order to keep the water safe to use for everyone.
So, what is the difference between each type of chlorine of your pool water? Well, here’s the short explanation:
From the short explanation above, free chlorine is actually the one that you have to keep in the water. When it’s below the ideal range, you have to raise it as soon as possible or you may have an unsafe swimming pool.
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The tutorial on how to raise free chlorine in pool will guide you to solve the problem quickly.
The effort that we’re going to do to raise the free chlorine in your swimming pool is shocking. Some of you may have known this kind of maintenance process which simply means super-chlorinating the pool or adding chlorine in a more ‘extreme’ way safely.
Those are the supplies that you have to prepare once you know that the free chlorine of your pool water is below the ideal range.
When you prepare the chemicals, you have to wear all the protective gear since it may harm your skin and eyes. Also, you may need to wear ugly clothes since the chemical can also damage linens.
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After you get the chemicals ready, you can start shocking the pool.
Retest the water after you have let the shock in the water overnight. Instead of the tester strip, water tester kit is more recommended since it can test the amount of free chlorine and give a more accurate result.
After the shocking process (which kills the harmful contaminants), you need to run the filter to remove them from the pool water. Run the filter of your pool for about 24 hours to finish the step.
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Well, that is the tutorial on How to Raise Free Chlorine that you can follow! Have a nice try then!