Recent content by Cait

Thanks, Patrick. Just so I completely understand, you're saying that even though a UV filter might filter an equivalent amount of water to the pool volume in less time than chlorine takes to kill Herpes, etc., the virus may not actually make it to the filter (since some water may not make it there)?

Chem Geek, thank you for the detailed response and the links! Looking at your table in the EcoSmarte thread about the chlorine/ copper/ silver kill times, I'm wondering since chlorine only kills certain viruses (VSV, Herpes, Vacciniavirus) at greater than 1500 minutes, wouldn't a pool UV...

I did look into the Frog as an option if I was going to use Chlorine, so I appreciate that feedback! I'm still researching hydrogen peroxide and found this study which seems to indicate that combined with colloidal silver, could meet the WHO recommendations for disinfection...

Thank you everyone for your input!! I really didn't want to consider chlorine at all, but am slowly being swayed by reading all of the information on this site.

Re: No chlorine in my pool to assist my ionizer nor am I sup Hi chem geek, I'm wondering if you think that hydrogen peroxide would be a good addition to this system (http://www.carefreeclearwater.com/products.html#model1200) as an oxidizer and supplemental disinfectant? I've seen so much...

Thanks for the response! The house we recently purchased is on a well which we are thrilled about. We had installed filters on the showers in our previous home and used a filter for drinking water. So although bathing in municipal tap water isn't the end of the world, we had been going to...

Hi, I've been doing extensive research on alternative sanitizing methods and the only method that seems somewhat viable to me is the combination of UV and hydrogen peroxide. I understand hydrogen peroxide on its own is not a sanitizer, but it seems like the UV system changes the chemical...