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If you are like a lot of people, just the word “chemicals” doesn’t sound good. Sure you need them for your pool but are they at all dangerous to handle? What if they are spilled or mishandled? Can they be harmful? The fact, is that most of the pool chemicals that you will be using to treat your pool can be harmful if mishandled. However; with some common sense rules, they can be perfectly safe to handle and store.

As a general household rule, all chemicals that come onto your property should be kept in a secure location with a solid lock on the cabinet or pool house door. This rule should apply to all chemicals, including bleach, ammonia and any pesticides or herbicides as well.

The real risk is not in them being mishandled by adults but rather curious children getting into them. Pool chemicals are a necessity and without them your pool would very quickly turn green and become covered with a layer of algae.

It is the air in the atmosphere that surrounds you and the sun in the sky above you that is constantly at work to degrade the chemicals in your pool, so regular testing is a must. However; todays pool chemicals are packaged in such a way that they are easy and safe to use if you follow the directions carefully.

Once you understand the rate at which the chemicals in your pool are degraded, you will quite easily develop your own routine for adding pool chemicals to your pool. One thing that you don’t want to do however, is add too much of any one chemical to the water in the pool or it can become uncomfortable to swim in.

Todays pool chemicals come packaged in any number of forms. If you are comfortable handling them, you can buy them in bulk containers and measure them out yourself. Or if you are like many pool owners, you may prefer easy to handle pre measured individual packages and tablets.