POOL CHLORINE SMELL

 

Many pool owners complain that the swimming pool water is not really clean, but they can smell the chlorine so there must be enough in the water to ensure disinfection.

 

Unfortunately, if you can smell chlorine, the swimming pool hasn't got enough...

Strange, isn't it?!

What you can smell are chloramines. These are formed when insufficient levels of free available chlorine react with ammonia and other nitrogen-containing compounds (swimmer waste, sweat, urine, etc.), resulting in their only being partially broken down (creating halomethanes).

 

When your pool smells chlorine, there is little or no free available chlorine and too much combined chlorine. A chlorine shock treatment is necessary to complete the disinfection and dissipate the combined chlorine.

 

The combined chlorine in the pool water can also be destroyed with a non-chlorine shock if you prefer not to use large quantities of chlorine.

 

Need assistance?

 

contact you local Pool Nurses at (407) 374-3712

 

We are Pool Nurses, because we care.