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Summary: Use algaecide in your swimming pool every two weeks. Learn how to schedule maintenance treatments for your pool during the summer season in this pool care video from our swimming pool expert.
Tena Sloan, is an owner of the Princess Pools store in Dickson, Tenn. and has been in the swimming pool business for more than 10 years, working on the construction end of pools for...read more
"We are back in 2 weeks and we're ready to treat the pool again. This is how we treat the pool with the PrestineBlue chemicals. You have a slide and we are going to be treating this pool as 14,000 gallons. You are going to add 1 pound of Prestine power, 3 ounces of Prestine clean and then we'll have to measure the PrestineBlue to see what the actual reading is because with this being a copper based chemical the copper is what we test for so we will test the PrestineBlue and see what it reads on our meter and then we will add accordingly to top off. See this has all sizes of pools on it, all gallons, very user friendly, very easy maintenance chemicals, it goes up to 32,000 gallons. It gives you instructions over here on the side of how to work the slide and on the back it tells you how to maintenance your pool ever two weeks on the PrestineBlue chemicals. As you can see it says every 2 weeks and the first thing you want to do is adjust your pH. You want it in the range of 7.2 to 7.6, test PrestineBlue levels and add PrestineBlue according to calculator for example, if you have 20,000 gallons of pool water PrestineBlue level of 0.7 parts per million, you add 8 ounces of PrestineBlue then you wait about 30 minutes and you add Prestine power according to the calculator. You may wish to add Prestine power as often as once a week if bather load is high. If you have a lot of swimmers you get a lot of contaminants in the water so you may have to shock a little more often and number 4, you want to add Prestine clean according to the calculator and there is the front and here is your calculator. You always want to do exactly what this says and you always want to test every 14 days. You never test sooner. You can go a day or two over but never go a day or two before. Always 14 days, they have got this calculated for a 14 day treatment."
eHow Article: Pool Maintenance Schedule