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Rick's Remedies: Chlorine...The Good, The Bad, and The Way to Deal with It! Cleaning up after a fun July 4th pool party can be a rather unpleasant chore. How do you clean what you can't see?! Of course, we are talking about CC or Combined Chlorine...they don't call us Chemical Geeks for nothin'!
When caring for a pool or spa, keep in mind there are three forms of chlorine for which you will be testing...
An easier way to think about it is FREE (FC) is good chlorine and COMBINED (CC) is bad chlorine. CC is formed when FC hooks up with wastes that are introduced to the pool via swimmers or from the environment around the pool. Ideally, CC levels should be maintained as low as possible (ideally at 0ppm). When CC is too high, it reduces the efficiency of the FC. This can lead to A LOT of water quality issues. So, after your "major rager" of a July 4th party with half the neighborhood in the pool, you wil
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