Discover The Hidden “Sanitation Problem” That
All Pools And Spas Have !
 90% Of The Time Your
Pool Or Spa Is Not Healthy! This is a bold statement but
true, and here’s why. There is
no way that you or your pool service can manually keep your
pool sanitized or chemically safe. You are either swimming
in a pool of invisible bacteria and algae or the chemical
levels are so high that your body is absorbing chemical toxins.
These chemical toxins also destroy your pool surface and
equipment. You would literally have to stand beside your
pool and check it every hour and make chemical adjustment
to make it safe. How do we know this? Through years of research
and Field-testing.
We did daily monitoring of 100 pools for 6 months. We checked
for bacteria and chemical levels and no more than 10 of the
pools were in a safe range on either parameter at any given
day. What this means is that 90% of the time your pool is
not safe to get in. Some pools had professional service,
and some were owner maintained. It made no difference. Paul
Harvey recently reported that in a CDC study there was a
21% increase in water borne disease caused by public pools
in Florida for the summer of 2004. The Tampa Florida area
News Media and other national media have reported numerous
problems in residential pools, as well.
It’s Time To Wake-up And Learn
The Facts!
The “Cosmetic Water Trick”: Pool service companies
and pool supply stores have been selling what is called “Cosmetic
Water” for years. Cosmetic water is water that looks
good, but is so over loaded with chlorine, bromine, and other
chemicals that the water is nearly lethal, or at best, toxic
and unhealthy to you and your family.
75% percent of the cost of taking care of your pool is
in the “Time and Travel”- not the chemicals -
so the less they visit you the more they make. The more chemicals
they put in the less they visit. They don’t care that
the chemical levels are hazardous to your health; their motto
must be “just keep the pool from turning green”.
You see, they know that you are judging your pool or spa
simply by how it looks, and not by what kinds of bacteria
or chemicals are in it. It should be a crime.
Can this be fixed?
Yes, but we must learn the truth about how a pool functions.
There are six parameters that need to be maintained to keep
your pool or spa safe, and clean. The parameters are, pH
control, Circulation, Filtration, Sanitation, Oxidation,
and General Cleaning. All of these parameters have a degree
of importance, but the most important parameter is pH. Proper
pH is the foundation that supports the proper sanitation
and oxidation of bacteria, algae and other pathogens. Filtration,
circulation and general cleaning are mechanical parameters
and are easily maintained by observation of equipment. But,
no matter what type sanitizer or oxidizer you use, they are
only as good as the pH level of the water you put them in.
Chlorine, Bromine, Baquacil, Sustain, Salt, and Copper Ions,
are all dependent on proper pH levels to be effective.
Here is how it works:
The pH of a pool or spa is affected by many variables,
heat, cold, pool surface, backwashing, adding water, draining
water, people getting in, adding sanitizer (chemicals), rain,
dirt and more. The less volume of water you have, the more
significant these variables become. Now, let’s see
how pH effects the cleanliness of your water.
Let’s say your 10,000-gallon pool has a chlorine
level of 2.0 PPM (it should be 1.0 or less) and the pH is
7.6. At this pH level the effective killing power ( “ EKP ” )
of the chlorine is 45%. If a couple of people get in to swim,
the pH will go up in just a few minutes. If it just goes
up by 1/10 to 7.7 the EKP of the chlorine will go down to
just 35%. A 10% drop in killing power. Add a few more people,
and the pH will be in the 7.9 - 8.0 range in no time, and
the chlorines’ EKP goes down to a mere 20% or even
less. Just when you need the killing power of chlorine, it’s
gone. You now have a choice to either add chlorine to (4.0
to 5.0) to compensate for the low killing power, which turns
the water into a very unhealthy, toxic chemical soup. Or,
you add acid to the pool, which of course you can’t
do while people are swimming in the pool. So you see, it’s
the EKP of the chlorine that matters, not how much chlorine
is in your pool. At a pH of 7.3, chlorine has an impressive
EKP of 75%. So, if you keep the pH at 7.3 you will use up
to 80% less chlorine, and have a much safer pool - saving
you money and safeguarding your health.
The bottom line is this. No matter what type sanitizer
you use, you must automate the control of pH levels (i.e.,
use a sensor driven pH control system) in your pool or spa
in order to keep it bacterially and chemically safe for you
to use. If you don’t, your health is at a much higher
risk. CALL HEALTHMASTERS 1-800-726-1834
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