An fun observation......

[jokael]

The weekend, the youngest had a load of his friends over for a "pool party" (they're 11 years old), so I had bumped the FC up to 10-ish.
Later that day, a relative came with her 3-year-old to swim.
Her comment: "Oh, it's just so nice to swim in a pool without chlorine - everyone I know loads it up so it stinks like a public swimmingpool. Yours is much healthier for the little one".........

I didn't tell her that I probably had 8-10 times as much chlorine in our pool than those she refers to (the ones who go by "1-3 ppm max" and only uses pucks)

 

[Pauls234]

It is truly amazing what buffered chlorine feels like compared to what most are used to/grew up with, right?

 

[jokael]

It is truly amazing what buffered chlorine feels like compared to what most are used to/grew up with, right?

Exactly. I didn’t want to go into a discusson about “only used chlorine smells bad” - then she would probably never visit a public pool again
And yes, I actually like the smell of chlorine from the bottle, but that’s not chloramine-smell
Like we say in my house when cooking fish: “Fish should never smell like fish”. And a chlorine pool should never smell like chlorine.

 

[duraleigh]

Nice post, jokael. Very perceptive. How do you test your pool water in Denmark? What kit?

 

[Getitrite]

"Living under EU-regulations so FAS-DPD kits are not possible to get. I use a DPD-photometer instead." However... TFP works - WORLDWIDE !

 

[JupiterFL]

EU-regulations so FAS-DPD kits are not possible to get

What is the reasoning for this?

 

[jokael]

What is the reasoning for this?

Some of the reagents are not allowed for private use.
Exactly like working weed killers and ditto mosquito repellent.
And not being a pool-country, we don’t have a tradition for testing with anything other than dpd.

 

[jokael]

Nice post, jokael. Very perceptive. How do you test your pool water in Denmark? What kit?

Just a dpd digital photometer. Most use strips or the tablets in a shaker with colour indications.