Dear all,

I bought a house with a swimming pool (40.000 liters) one year ago. I was a complete inexperienced guy so I started to look into the internet for any guidance’s and recommendations. I read hundreds of articles and I downloaded a lot of guidance’s. Let me say that poolsolutions.com is the place where I found the best recommendations by far.
If you are new in pool caring and you are lucky that your tap water hardness is below 200 mg/l (in my case is 180 mg/dl) I recommend following the next simple steps:

1) First of all read absolutely all the guidance’s and tips given in poolsolutions.com.

2) Second I recommend keeping your pool clean and safe just with the typical old known Trichloroisocyanuric tablets for regular chlorination and using calcium hypochlorite for regular super chlorination shocks.

3) You do not need to use non-chlorine oxi-shocks at all to get a pool crystal water. Just perform regular checks of ph, chlorine concentration, total alkalinity, calcium hardness and isocyanuric acid and check if all of them are within the recommended ranges (if you calculate the langelier index to keep it within +/- 0.3 that is even better). Perform chemical adjustments if needed following the recommendations given in poolsolutions.com.

4) In addition to any chemical corrections needed (e.g. to lower the ph or to increase alkalinity) of course you’ll need to perform regular backwashes of the filter as stated in the corresponding guidance’s (this is also a good way to replace pool water by clean tap water thus reducing any high isocyanuric concentration).

Forget about any oxi-shocks. Just with calcium hypochlorite regular shocks and plain Trichloroisocyanuric tablets you can get crystal water along al the year. From time to time you can use tablets with three or four effects to add some few amounts of algaecides or flocculants. (this way you don’t need to buy these products for further addition).

This is what I can tell of my personal experience. May be it can be useful for beginners. Enjoy your pool.