Description
Pool Acid, also known as hydrochloric or muriatic acid, is an essential pool water balancing chemical used to lower excessively high pH and total alkalinity levels in swimming pool water. Maintaining the correct pH range is critical to effective pool care — water that is too alkaline reduces the effectiveness of chlorine sanitisers, causes scale to form on pool surfaces and equipment, leads to cloudy water, and results in eye and skin irritation for swimmers. Pool acid corrects these imbalances quickly and effectively, restoring pH to the ideal range and ensuring chlorine can perform at its maximum sanitising efficiency. It is also used to remove stubborn calcium scale deposits from pool surfaces, tiles, and equipment, and to clean and descale filter systems and salt chlorinator cells. A fundamental and versatile pool maintenance chemical, pool acid should always be handled with appropriate protective equipment and added carefully to pool water in small, controlled doses to avoid over-correction and damage to pool surfaces and equipment.
