Pool test strips for vacation rental

[SC Maintenance]

Were renting a place next week with a private pool (there is also a community pool). I thought maybe I should get some test strips and check it out before I jump in? Suggestions? Would need to be something I can buy locally or get shipped fairly quickly - were leaving next week.

Doesn't say if its saltwater or regular. Its a newish place in Florida so I am guessing saltwater - if that matters.

Lowes has Clorox and HTH test strips here. Are they really as easy as it seems - hold them under the water - compare colors?

 

[Egg_Head]

Ignorance is bliss. I'd be more concerned with testing for fecal matter.

 

[skyactiv]

From the CDC:

https://www.cdc.gov/healthy-swimmin...y points,water should be removed immediately.

 

[KGMtech]

I'm never going in a pool again, thanks BITOG !!

 

[vavavroom]

Were renting a place next week with a private pool (there is also a community pool). I thought maybe I should get some test strips and check it out before I jump in? Suggestions? Would need to be something I can buy locally or get shipped fairly quickly - were leaving next week.

Doesn't say if its saltwater or regular. Its a newish place in Florida so I am guessing saltwater - if that matters.

Lowes has Clorox and HTH test strips here. Are they really as easy as it seems - hold them under the water - compare colors?

When people urinate in the pool the urine reacts with the chlorine and forms the irritant trichloramine. I say this as a former pool boy and authority on disgusting human behavior in swimming pools. Spitting, blowing noses, peeing, and going into the pool unshowered are just some of the nasty things I have witnessed. There's more, Much, much more. What I am saying is, find a way to DIY-test pool water for urine and you will make a fortune!

 

[Egg_Head]

 

[Brian123]

Were renting a place next week with a private pool (there is also a community pool). I thought maybe I should get some test strips and check it out before I jump in? Suggestions? Would need to be something I can buy locally or get shipped fairly quickly - were leaving next week.

Doesn't say if its saltwater or regular. Its a newish place in Florida so I am guessing saltwater - if that matters.

Lowes has Clorox and HTH test strips here. Are they really as easy as it seems - hold them under the water - compare colors?

Community Pool!

 

[vavavroom]

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How'd y'all do it?

 

[Aredeeem]

Ugh. I live in a 55 and over. There isn’t enough chlorine or test strips in the world that could entice me to jump into our watering hole. The clubhouse is adjacent to the pool and as I sat at poolside I could count on one hand the number of folks who got out, toweled off, and disappeared into the clubhouse to use the facilities over a 3 hour period. When you see an old timer doing that power walk across the pool don’t follow in his wake!

 

[Hall]

I thought maybe I should get some test strips

And do what ? Treat it with chlorine, adjust the pH with acid, add algaecide ? Then wait a day to test it again and make sure it's okay ?

 

[SC Maintenance]

And do what ? Treat it with chlorine, adjust the pH with acid, add algaecide ? Then wait a day to test it again and make sure it's okay ?

If its not acceptable contact the owner and ask him to send @vavavroom over.

Were there for a week.

 

[Gyro Gearloose]

The drop style test kit for pH and chlorine is more accurate than the strips. About $10 from Wal Mart or Amazon.

 

[#18FAN]

The drop style test kit for pH and chlorine is more accurate than the strips. About $10 from Wal Mart or Amazon.

I’d never trust a strip test.

 

[mk378]

Pools get tested at least once every day. Find out who maintains the pool and ask them for the test results. At public pools they are usually posted on a wall. There is a contingent of swimmers who will complain that there must be too much chlorine and it is irritating their eyes and skin.

 

[atikovi]

Community Pool!

But then you can't swim or sunbath au natural. And I assume the rental has a weekly pool service, so you do have that, unless they are totally incompetent. If the water looks clean, I wouldn't worry about. You're not drinking it.

 

[Brian123]

But then you can't swim or sunbath au natural. And I assume the rental has a weekly pool service, so you do have that, unless they are totally incompetent. If the water looks clean, I wouldn't worry about. You're not drinking it.

The words Assume, Incompetent, and the phrase I wouldn't worry about it, makes me realize, let's just jump in this Pool at the Rental Place. The you're not Drinking it comment, is the Icing on the Cake. LOL

 

[atikovi]

I have a weekly pool service at my FL place and have no qualms about going in the water, but then, I'm not a germaphobe.