Calcium Hypochlorite

An algae swimming pool, green pool water, blue-green algae, mustard algae it doesn't matter to this swimming pool chlorine. It's tough and ready to go when you are.

Above Ground & Inground Pool Maintenance

It's a chemical compound that is used for water treatment and as a bleaching agent, is relatively stable, and has greater available swimming pool chlorine level than sodium hypochlorite (liquid bleach).

What's Good About Calcium Hypochlorite

I like using these swimming pool chlorine granules for some simple reasons:

1. The level of actual pool chlorine is higher, about 65%-68%
2. It’s lighter and easier to handle
3. Easier to store
4. Easier to apply
5. Can be found at many discount pool chemicals or wholesale pool chemicals stores
6. Great chlorine for your opening pool time and swimming pool closing
7. Safe for your salt water pool systems and salt water pool maintenance. Be sure to turn off your salt cells when doing a swimming pool shock or combating green pool water
8. Helps reduce your pool maintenance cost and general swimming pool care and maintenance
9. Long lasting when your pool stabilizer is right
10. Excellent for killing algae
11. Helps with your pool water balance and pool water care
12. Safer to apply
13. Excellent for super chlorination
14. Can be used with quality chlorine tablets

If you have one of the many small swimming pools or kiddie pools, just a tiny bit of swimming pool chlorine is needed to keep it sanitized.

Negatives

1. Calcium Hypochlorite does contain about 30% calcium
Places that may have harder water like Arizona, California, Nevada, etc...may want to use liquid chlorine or straight bleach to chlorinate their pools.

It may also cause a cloudy pool water problem.

Don't worry about this as it will clear up with proper filtration.

2. Calcium Hypochlorite has a pH level of 12

If your fill water has an already high pH level you may want to consider liquid swimming pool chlorine. Using chlorine granules may increase your pool's pH level.

Also, after you pool shock you're pH level will go up so keep a bottle of muriatic acid handy to get your swimming pool pH level down.

3. May cause a flare-up of asthmatic bronchitis if not use properly
4. After a good pool shock you'll need to vacuum the bottom of the swimming pool
5. Produces strong, sometimes dangerous hypochlorous acid
6. Because of its caustic nature, would be considered a hazardous material spill
7. You must know and understand the dangers of chlorine

Chart - Super Chlorinate Your Pool
(Amount Needed to Reach 10 ppm)

Calcium Hypochlorite has enjoyed many years of service to many swimming pool owners.

Why not try it out?

Happy Swimming.

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