Rule Your Pool

00:00 - Intro 02:27 - Alkalinity buffers against reduction in pH 05:27 - Where should my alkalinity be? 08:33 - How much acid does it take to bring a pool from 8.0 pH to 7.4 pH? 11:16 - What is Buffering Capacity? 14:40 - Sodium Carbonate (Soda Ash) vs Sodium Bicarbonate (Baking Soda) 19:03 - How to pH and Calcium interact? 19:52 - Hot Starts or Zero Alkalinity Startups 21:23 - Why testing your wa...

00:00 - Intro 01:32 - What is pH? 02:30 - pH is an equilibrium 07-58 - Negative logarithm of Hydrogen 08:43 - Let's not try to control pH. Physics is going to raise the pH in swimming pools. 09:50 - Henry's Law of the Solubility of Gases 12:23 - Buy a pH probe to find out your exact pH. 12:37 - Your pH can raise from algae, vanishing edge pools, spas, spillover, or salt cell. 18:53 - Problems occu...

About Orenda Technologies   Water is a precious resource, and we strive to make it clean and beautiful. Orenda has a philosophy of minimalism, and proactive pool care. Why be proactive? Because prevention is always easier than correction, and we want to help educate the pool industry and pool owners about it. The vast majority of pool issues are preventable, and that's why we published our  Four P...