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ABOVE: This project by The Other Swimart has designed a series of visual Side made the family aids for its Landscapes Australasianhas franchise network, size spa an attractive described as apool foolproof system mosaic to help tiled feature of the landscape. franchise partners explain pool chemicals and water chemistry to their customers, with nine LEFT: The AIS Water Pixie icons to enable pool care professionals to use chlorinator is specially designed everyday language when discussing topics for smaller pool and spas like algaecides, oxidisers and sanitisers.
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more than the 25mpa concrete used for pools built in“The Aussie tradition of having family and friends situ,”for sheasays. over barbeque and lots of fun in the pool She says this enables customers to create a unique still requires chlorination to remove bacteria and feature in their yard that not such only looks but is importantly organic matter as dirtamazing and dust, also functional andoils adds without breaking thecan bank. sunscreens, body andvalue other nasty things kids do in “Compact a pool.” pools require less maintenance, they are easy to While clean and after which provides customers with it’s look important to have a residual disinfectant more time tosafe, enjoy the pool instead of says looking to maintain quality water, Milne thatafter it. Many also choose to add a heater tobe their pool toand allow residual doesn’t necessarily need to chlorine the for year-round swimming as it is not cost prohibitive to associated chemicals to maintain chlorine levels. heat a smaller through cooler like months.” “The Nakedpool system uses athe residual the ancient Greeks and Romans used for their drinking water, Investing in and lower which is copper silvercosts opposed to chlorine and Australia’s first Climate Care Certified installation these are actually more efficient than chlorine itself was by Brisbane Prestige Plunge Pools. without the required chemicals,” he says. The money Adrian Volders and Annie BarclayVolders savedthe by opting a plunge pool was spent Reducing needforfor chlorine improvingChemicals the efficiency of the overall – Lo-Chlor managing directorproject Paul Simons something they mayis not afforded hadnew theymethods opted agrees that residual stillhave required but that for grander can areduce thedesign. level of chlorine needed in a pool. The couple chosetouting an eco-friendly He says thesays newthey products to be thepool next to best minimise theirand carbon footprint without compromising thing in pool spa disinfection are typically based on their lifestyle. traditional sanitation models. “As an new environmental scientist, amnothing aware that “Most systems coming out Iare new as small changes at the household cansays translate to a far as their ability to sanitise the level water,” Simons. big“Instead, impact,”they’re says Volder. “Theorcombination Daisy’s revamps upgrades ofofcurrent thermal pool blanket Waterco’s MultiCyclone ideas whether they beand mineral pools, ionisation or filter and advanced Hydrostorm pool pump has salt chlorinators.