Swimming Pool Shock
Americas Best pool chemicals and chlorine pool shock treatments are concentrated, strong and fast acting! They will keep your pool clear and algae-free!
Our swimming pool shock is more powerful because it is a full strength pool shock and not blended with other ingredients. Proper pool shocking is the secret to a successful pool season at the lowest cost. Many mass merchants sell a blended pool shock treatment which contains a low amount of available chlorine. This form of pool shock also contains chemicals like clarifiers, flocculents and water balancers. This swimming pool shock treatment may initially seem to be priced less per pound. Don't be fooled! You must use over twice as much of this to get the same result you expect using full strength chlorine pool shock. So where is their low cost?
Pool shocking will keep the most common water problems away and clear cloudy pool water. Swim bather load, rainfall, heat and sunlight will all deplete the pool sanitizer. This makes it difficult to maintain safe and clear water. Super-chlorination "burns off" or oxidizes contaminates and restores the power of the primary pool sanitizer. We recommend using a chlorine or non chlorine pool shock for pool water treatment at least once every seven to ten days and more frequent after periods of heavy rain and large swim bather loads.
Our pool shock for swimming pools is available in calcium hypochlorite (Cal-Hypo), dichlor and lithium pool shock. We also feature a non-chlorine pool shock treatment that is great for shocking and swimming right away after treatment.
What happens when a chlorine pool shock treatment is added to the water? The chlorine reacts with the water to form hypochlorous acid. This is the actual disinfectant that kills bacteria and other pathogens in the water. Chlorine performs this by attacking the lipids in their cell walls, then it destroys the enzymes and structures inside the cell through an oxidation reaction. Some treatments will produce more disinfectant compared to others. Check the percentage of available chlorine when you make your choice. The higher the precentage, the stronger the super chlorination. We recommend that you avoid blended treatments because the chemicals that are added reduce the strength of the product.
