Total Alkalinity? The measure of the ability of water to resist pH change. To break it down for you, it helps your pH level remain balanced instead of it fluctuating so frequently.
The pH bodyguard, that’s one way to think of it. The pH balance of your swimming pool is very unstable, in fact many things can cause it to move up and down including: - Everyday Swimming - Rain water - adding any type of pool chemical
Your pH is now protected from rising and falling so much with alkalinity. Throughout the season you should keep your alkalinity at about 125 to 150 parts per million.
How to Add Alkalinity to your swimming pool The good thing about this product is that it can be added to your swimming pool directly because it dissolves quickly. Alkalinity is Sodium Bicarbonate.
So you want to add baking soda to your pool to increase the alkalinity. Sure you can but remember that it may take more baking soda than regular pool alkalinity, plus it can make your pool cloudy. I always say that baking soda is for baking. If it were for pools it would be called Pool soda.
Also by adding Alkalinity to your swimming pool you are also raising your pH too. So if your pH and Alkalinity are low, just adding alkalinity should do the trick.
That being said if your pH is high and alkalinity is low, bring down your pH first before adding alkalinity or then your pH will go too high. If you want to decrease both pH and alkalinity you can use just pH minus or decreaser.
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