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What levels of cyanuric acid are toxic?
I prefer my customers pools to be below 70 ppm. Anything above is excessive and unnecessary.
How do you maintain a pool?
Pools are maintained by weekly testing the levels of Chlorine, pH, Total Alkalinity, Calcium Hardness, Cyanuric Acid, and Phosphates. Pools also needed to be cleaned by scrubbing pool walls with brushes and vacuuming any dirt or debris on the surface or in the pool water.
How do you raise cyanuric acid levels in a spa?
Cyanuric acid is generally called chlorine stabilizer and it is used to prevent the suns UV rays from eating up the chlorine in outdoor pools. Because most spa's are covered when not in use this is generally not a concern for spa or hot tub owners. If you do however have an outdoor uncovered spa and you wish to raise the CYA level you would simply visit your local pool supply store and purchase some chlorine stabilizer, just ask for cyanuric acid and they will know what to get you.
What is a stablizer to raise cyanuric acid?
Cyanuric acid is a stabiliser that stabilises chlorine and stops it from being burned of by the sun. Cyanuric acid and stabiliser are both the same product.
Is Cyanuric acid same as muriatic acid?
Cyanuric acid is not the same as muriatic acid. Cyanuric acid is odorless and white in color. It is used as a component of disinfectants, bleaches, and herbicides. Muriatic acid is clear solution of hydrogen chloride in water.
Can swimming pools be brominated?
Indoor swimming pools can use bromine. You can't use bromine on outdoor pools because there is no cyanuric acid in bromine. In other words, bromine molecules would have a very short life, almost worthless, in an outdoor pool.
Do you have to put chemicals in a above ground pool?
Chlorine stabilizer or conditioner (cyanuric acid) is used, in outdoor chlorine-maintained swimming pools. Thanks for using Answers.com!
What is the chemical formula of cyanuric acid?
C3H3N3O3
How often should the water be changed in 3700-gallon above-ground pool?
Assuming no other complaints you would only need to change water to lower the total dissolved solids level or cyanuric acid level. TDS should be below 500ppm and cyanuric acid ~50 ppm.
Why add hydrochloric acid to a pool?
Hydrochloric acid is most commonly known as muriatic acid and is used to lower pH in pools
What product to use to raise cyanuric acid?
stabilzer
What is the common name for HCl when used to lower pH in swimming pools?
Muriatic acid
