Money Saving Tip: Keep An Eye On Your Chlorine Stabilizer Level

For those of you who don’t know, chlorine stabilizer or cyanuric acid is a chemical that protects the sun from eating up the chlorine you put in your pool. When you add chlorine to your pool via shock or chlorine tablets, the chlorine is un-stabilized (for the most part).  Meaning, it doesn’t last very long in the water to fight bacteria and other harmful contaminates.

By adding Chlorine Stabilizer to your water, it will help keep that chlorine in your water longer to fight what it needs to kill to keep your water sanitized.  Chlorine is quickly oxidized by the sun and the stabilizer helps protect the chlorine from being oxidized quickly.

How To Add Chlorine Stabilizer

Chlorine stabilizer should be added at the beginning of every year. Sometimes, you may have enough stabilizer left over from the year before and won’t need to add it. Make sure you get your water checked for Cyanuric Acid just in case.  Here is step by step instructions for adding Cyanuric Acid to your swimming pool water:

1. Make sure your filter is cleaned. Back wash and rinse your filter out.
2. Find out how much chlorine stabilizer your pool needs by visiting your local pool store and asking. Commonly, you’ll need 1 pound per 3,000 gallons of water.
3. Because it dissolves slowly, the best way to add it is by pouring it into the skimmer and through your filter system, SLOWLY. It will dissolve instead the filter and be released into the water. Remember, do this SLOWLY. You don’t want to clog the filter and pump.
4. Run your swimming pool for a full 24 hours and do not backwash or you’ll lose the stabilizer.