Did you know that the unmistakable nose-torching chlorine smell around your pool means it’s clean?
Well, actually, that sentence would be true, but only on opposite day. Because that dingy, dank chlorine smell is really just your pool water screaming, “Somebody Clean ME”
You see, that icky odor we confuse with chlorine doing its job is really a compound called chloramine, a combination of chlorine and whatever dead organic material it latched onto. This gruesome twosome is commonly tested for and referred to as Combined Chlorine in test kits. So, whilst your chlorine is combined, it’s not Free to go hunting for other germs and dirt.
Combined Chlorine = Bad
Free Chlorine = Good
So you may ask…
How Do I Exorcise That Foul Chlorine Smell From My Pool?
Well, the easiest way to butt-in on the devilish dance duo is to reach out and lean on your ol’ trusty friend Non-Chlorine Shock. This oxidizing agent seeks out and breaks down the odor-emitting chloramine, dissipating the dead organic and inorganic material, allowing the now free chlorine to find the next unwanted microbe to tango with.
So in short, if you can smell the pool before you see the pool…..RUN….or pick up some non-chlorine pool shock.
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