Chlorine Tablets Info

There are a wide range of online stores specializing in the sale of chlorine tablets for cleaning your swimming pool. Some of them are listed below.

Doheny’s Water Warehouse offers free next day delivery on selected swimming pool chemicals and boasts savings of up to 50% when compared to retail prices. They have a very wide selection of pool chemicals available and the website is well designed, pleasing to the eye and easy to navigate. Their top selling products are; Super Shock, Concentrated Algaecide, 3 Inch Chlorine Tablets and the Swimming Pool Chemicals Start-Up Value Kit.

Swimming Pool and Hot Tub Supply has a more text based website layout when compared to Doheny’s traditional e-commerce product based layout. The design is clean and conforms to the smaller 800×600 screen regulations as opposed to the previous website’s 1024 x 768. This online store also offers free shipping and has a clearance corner for any bargain hunters.

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Best Buy Pool Supply has a very basic rather old-fashioned text based layout, however, it does have a Macafee secure badge for the online shoppers peace of mind as well as offering live customer assistance. Best Buy Pool Supply also offers free premium warranty support on most products.

In the Swim claims to be America’s number one source for pool supplies and also offers $10 instant savings when using a home page promotional code on purchases over $50.

Tri-State Wastewater Equipment has a large selection of items available and the website has a traditional e-commerce layout with lots of products on display. The website assures users they can shop with confidence and displays a number of authorized secure certificates for the online shopper.

In summary, there is an abundance of online stores to buy your chlorine tablets and swimming pool maintenance supplies from. It’s really just a matter of shopping around and finding a site where the price is right for you and you are happy with delivery rates and speeds. As with most online stores, you will probably find a favourite and stick to that. Don’t forget, customer service should also be taken into consideration, especially when ordering more expensive items. The discerning online shopper can also use an online shopping comparison website such as Kelkoo, NexTag or BizRate to compare prices, but be aware that these sites are not necessarily displaying the best prices on the web. They are only displaying prices from stores who have paid to be on their site. As well as this, preference is sometimes given to merchants who pay more money. Having said that, shopping comparison sites may be a good starting point for your swimming pool shopping.

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In recent years, there have been numerous scare stories linking the use of chlorine and chlorine tablets in swimming pools to a long list of ailments including asthma, bladder cancer, miscarriages and stillbirths. This raises the question, should swimming pool owners take a serious look at the chlorine alternatives available?

With the use of chlorine so prevalent and entrenched in the industry, any alternative would have to seriously prove itself as being much more beneficial to people’s health. It would also have to be economically viable and proven to be as effective in de-sanitising water as chlorine.

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Personally speaking, this author uses a filtering system for drinking water at home and can genuinely tell a marked difference between filtered and non-filtered tap water. The non-filtered water has a distinct chlorine smell to it whereas the filtered water is completely odourless, and hence more pleasant to drink. The question is, is it more beneficial to my health to drink the filtered water. I certainly prefer to drink the filtered water and on gut feeling, I ‘m sure that it’s much better for me and my family to drink filtered water.

With reference to the dangers of chlorine in swimming pools, I distinctly remember returning from swim club on a Thursday night with my eyes stinging for a couple of hours after a swim. Whatever it was they did, I can only presume that either the system wasn’t working properly at that time, they had got their chlorine levels wrong, or there was a dangerous imbalance in the pool’s ph levels at this time. Anyway, my eyes were fine the next morning and it didn’t bother me again. This example does raise the question however, what would this sort of exposure to someone who was say, a professional swimmer spending hours on end in the swimming pool?

The most credible alternative to chlorine is ozone. The current unpopularity of ozone use in swimming pools in the US is manly due to the unsuccessful early applications of the technique ten to fifteen years ago. American pools, having been geared to using the chlorine system of disinfecting, were not suited to the ozone system and therefore, the practice proved not only ineffective, but also very expensive. There is no doubt that ozone is a cleaner, safer and more environmentally friendly method, but engineers, architects and swimming pool owners will need to crack their heads together and develop a method for delivering this solution.

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