Hey everyone welcome to swimuniversity.com. My name is matt chivinisi and today i'm going to show you how to test your swimming pool. It's very simple. All you need is some test strips and a test kit and away.

We go, you'll need a bottle of test strips and a clean, empty cup. Take a sample of water with your cup away from any return. Jets or skimmers hold the cup upside down dip. It elbow length deep turn the cup over and take your sample, then take out one test strip and dip it in the water sample, wait about 15 seconds and compare the color tabs to the back of the bottle to make sure that your pool chemicals are in Check all you need is a test kit that checks for ph and chlorine levels take a sample of your order with the testing container away from any return.

Jets or skimmers hold the container upside down dip. It elbow length deep turn the container right side up and take your sample. Add four drops of oto liquid in the yellow side of the container. This checks, the chlorine level, then add four drops of phenol red in the red side of the container.

This will check the ph level cover the opening and give it a good quick shake to mix it in the solution. You can now see the color difference compared to the side of the container. It looks like our chlorine is high, but our ph is low. All you need is a clean, empty water bottle, take a sample of your water with the bottle away from any return.

Jets or skimmers hold the bottle upside down dip. It elbow length deep turn: the bottle right side up and take your sample make sure you fill the entire bottle about 12 or 16. Ounces should do then take your sample to your local pool, store to have it test it. So that's it! You can test the pool yourself using a test kit or some test strips or you can take a sample of your water to your local pool dealer and get it fully checked for everything you want to make sure that you check specifically for chlorine or the type Of sanitizer you use ph alkalinity, calcium, harness and cyanoarc acid, or what they call chlorine stabilizer, which protects the sun from damaging the chlorine in your pool, and you can just visit our website swimuniversity.com and thanks for watching that was weird foreign.