Instructions on Testing Total Alkalinity in Your Swimming Pool. Total alkalinity is important in your pool because it controls how quickly the pH rises and falls in your pool water. So if you have low total alkalinity the pH will rise and fall rapidly with small amounts of adjustments. Say you're adding pH down it won't take very much to change a pH level on your water but it will be hard to control. If you add small amount of pH up or pH down the pH in your pool will swing out of range really easily. You might be testing it and its really inconsistent and seems like it's hard to control. On the other end of the scale if you have high total alkalinity the opposite is true. It'll be tough to to adjust the pH in your pool water. Say you want to lower the pH and you're using your muriatic acid you could be dumping a lot of muriatic acid and the pH wont be changing all that much. There are many problems you can run into if you have low total alkalinity in your pool water. The water can actually be corrosive or etch metal surfaces, on the other end with high total alkalinity you could run into issues with cloudy water high-acid demand, to lower your pH you'd be dumping a lot of muriatic acid to lower your ph constantly. It seems like every time you add acid you have to keep adding again and your pH won't come down that's that's a symptom of high total alkalinity. This is why it's important to keep the total alkalinity within range so your pH stays consistent and it's also easy to adjust. so to lower the total alkalinity your pool it's a slow process you have to add a small amounts of muriatic acid into your water which will bring down your pH and then you want to aerate your pool meaning leave it uncovered. You can still swim and stuff like that and the pH will naturally rise so you're going to end up putting acid in the pH will dive in your pool and then slowly come back up again. Once it comes up again you add muriatic acid small one again it'll die down and go up. That's how you slowly lower the total alkalinity of your pool. It can take weeks it could take a month it's hard to say. On the other hand if you want to raise your total alkalinity you do it with baking soda, add a bit and then you let your pH go back into range and you add a bit more that's how you raise your total alkalinity.

UV Pools
4304 Henderson Hwy Narol, MB R1C 0A1
(204) 414-1200
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We are located just outside the Winnipeg city limits.

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