- [Narrator] Is there any alternatives
to using chlorine in my pool,
so if chlorine is a bother,
you just don't wanna use chlorine in your pool.
Here's a four different options.
Check it out.
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One you can use bromine.
Bromine is common in indoor pools.
And the reason it's common
because it doesn't give off
that quote unquote chlorine smell.
Even though bromine and chlorine are part
of the same halogen family, they're cousins.
bromine works very similar to chlorine,
but it just doesn't have that chlorine smell.
Another chemical we can use is called PHMB or Baquacil.
And that's the brand name.
There's also a brand called soft swim made by bio guard.
Both of these are a like peroxide based sanitizer,
and it's completely liquid.
So unlike chlorine and bromine,
which come in powder or tablet form,
Baquacil on soft swim and these brands
come in all liquid form.
And they have their own special shock.
They have their own special sanitizer,
and they even sell their own special algaecides
and clarifiers specifically to use with that system.
But once you go through that system,
you're kind of locked into it,
you can't switch back and forth to chlorine
and Baquacil kind of locked into that.
And it definitely is more expensive.
But the reason why it's called soft swim for
that particular product is because it's softer on the skin.
Softer water just feels better to swim in,
and you're not using chlorine.
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The third option is using an Ozonator.
And this process inserts ozone gas into the pool
and this gas then reacts with any impurities
that comes in contact with your pool.
And this reaction then cleans the pool
and makes it water perfectly safe for swimming.
Now there's two different types of ozonators you can get,
you can get as corona discharge,
which uses an electrical arc
to create ozone inside the generator
to kill the pathogens inside the filter system itself.
Or you can use UV light,
which are special lamps installed on the water return lines
that kill all the nastiness that comes in your water
before returning to the pool.
This can be a little bit costly,
because you have to actually install products
on your filter system real hardware.
And they're not chemical based.
I'm about to mention mineral sanitizers
and I'm not gonna mention salt water because technically,
a salt water pool is chlorine
is not an alternative to chlorine.
It's just an alternative way to add chlorine to your pool.
So in case you're wondering, salt is not a part of this.
But number four is mineral sanitizers.
And I kept this one for last
because it's not really an alternative.
It's sort of a supplement.
So mineral sanitizers add you know minerals
like silver and copper to your water
which can actually kill bacteria.
The only problem is is that it may not kill all the bacteria
may not kill all the pathogens living in your pool.
This does require a little bit of chlorine
but in a normal chlorine pool,
you wanna keep your chlorine level
at around three Parts Per Million,
which doesn't sound like that much, but it is pretty high.
But if you're using a mineral sanitizer
to mainly sanitize the pool,
you still have to add a little bit of chlorine
as a backup system.
But you only have to keep 0.5 Parts Per Million
so the chlorine is so, so much lower,
but just like a ozonator it does require hardware
and it does require mineral cartridges
that need to be replaced every single year.
So those are the 4 alternatives that we recommend
here at university.
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