Bob has been following my column for years.
He always has great alternative ideas and methods and has sent me the following about keeping your swimming sparkling clean: Some years ago I found the ultimate chemical that solved the problem for a large natural stone pool I had just built at Llandudno.
I was visiting a client and saw the biggest home-built swimming pool I’d ever seen. It was, in fact, a lake, complete with an island and a palm tree. The owners had just retired from a Karoo farm and so missed their dam on the farm that they built this enormous pool.
At first they were tossing in two large tubs of HTH a day. Their daughter, a chemical engineer in Joburg, researched the problem and sent them a drum of highly concentrated weed killer.
I was given a wine bottle of the chemical. Only a few drops were needed a week and my pool was crystal clear for years.
If anyone has a contact with a chemical engineer, they could locate the name of this chemical as it certainly works.
I would be very interested to hear from anyone who has heard about this method because we all need to find all the possible cost savings we can.
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