Pool Season Chemicals

How the Pool Season line fits together

Sanitize, shock, balance, protect. Sanitizer is the only chemical that runs continuously. Everything else exists because sanitizer alone cannot hold a pool: shock deals with what the chlorine cannot burn off, balancers keep the chlorine effective, and the protect step, algaecide, phosphate control, enzyme and clarifier, makes the pool a hard place for algae to start and clears what is left in suspension.

Two shocks, on purpose. Non-Chlorine Shock is the weekly oxidizer for a pool that gets used: no chlorine added, no stabilizer added, swim again in 15 minutes. Di-Chlor is chlorine shock that dissolves fast and will not bleach a liner, for the week the water needs chlorine as well as oxygen, and it is the shock for vinyl and above-ground pools. For cal hypo, the lowest cost per dose, and how the four kinds compare, read the pool shock guide.

Buying one brand across the whole set is not marketing. Stabilizer, pH drift and calcium hardness interact, and a line formulated together gives you dose charts that assume each other. Mixing brands mid-season is where most water chemistry goes sideways.

Everything on this page ships from stock. Sizes run from a 1 lb bag to a 50 lb bucket, and the price per pound is on every card so the jump to the bigger container is a decision you can actually make.