Pool water that does not get ‘turned over’ properly and circulated through the filtration system will eventually become stagnant. That means Little Tony’s urine, bile, spit, or worse will never get removed from the water… which means you get to swim in it over and over again. Yuck.

“What about the chemicals? Don’t those keep the water safe?” — Not without proper circulation, no. You will wind up with concentrated pockets of the chemicals in some parts of the pool while other areas will contain no chemicals; thus making both types of water potential health hazards.

Consult with your pool builder, pool technician, owner’s manual, or local pool supply store for more information on this topic. Typically they will want to know your pool size, the size of the pump/motor on your filtration system, and the number of hours you run your pump and motor.

Monitoring the water chemistry in a pool will not cause you the pain you suffered through earlier in life. For the average pool owner, simple dip-n-read Pool Check test strips will work just fine. They allow for easy monitoring of the basics: Chlorine Level, pH, Total Alkalinity, and Hardness. Additionally, a trip to the pool store with a sample of water works equally well. Plus the fine folks at the store will give excellent directions on how to correct any problems they may find.

For those who maintain commercial or public pools, use of dip-n-read test strips will typically NOT suffice.

Most local Health Departments prefer to see pool/spa professionals using EPA Compliant methods for the monitoring of certain things like Free & Total Chlorine. They also want to see a host of other parameters like Cyanuric Acid (chlorine stabilizer) monitored on a regular basis. Sound intimidating? Let us help you with that.

Prior to the introduction of portable, easy-to-use handheld meters like the eXact Micro 7+ Advanced Photometric System, EPA Compliant chlorine testing required messy wet kits, dropper bottles, titrants, tablets and/or irritating dusts. No other chlorine detection method involving DPD Chemistry existed.

Now, however, with affordable EPA Compliant (for chlorine monitoring) water quality testing meters such as the eXact Micro 7+ Advanced Photometric System which makes use of a new, more convenient DPD Delivery System known as DPD ReagentStrips available, chlorine testing has become a lot easier and pretty much anyone can obtain accurate, reliable water test results in minutes.