Hydrogen Peroxide Treatment

Hydrogen peroxide is more commonly known as “oxygenated water”…. It is a liquid form of active oxygen. And it is not only used to bleach hair! It is a powerful oxidant widely used to rid the pool of impurities and algae and it can be used as a regular treatment or as a shock treatment.

In a 35% concentrated liquid solution (food grade), it releases 130 liters of active oxygen per liter.

The dosage of your hydrogen peroxide treatment and its effectiveness depends on many factors, such as the concentration of the product, the pH, the temperature of your water, and the amount of algae and impurities you want to combat.

Hydrogen peroxide treatment has many benefits:

• First, it is compatible with chlorine and bromine and can be used as a complementary treatment on existing algae. It is a miracle product for fixing a green swimming pool.
• It offers an effective alternative to chlorine shock treatments. You can swim again quickly after a shock treatment (on average 4 hours). The problem with shock chlorine is that it will add stabilizer to your pool water, with all the problems that this entails. If necessary, it is therefore more recommended to do an active oxygen treatment. Which is much easier to dose.
• Its effect on microorganisms and algae spores is immediate.
• It is compatible with all pool coatings. Its significant oxidizing action is also suitable for pools with reinforced polyester coatings when it is necessary to act on marbled stains, a common phenomenon of micro-organisms having, by osmosis, penetrated into the mass of the polyester.
• Hydrogen peroxide can be used for dechlorination, in other words to remove residual chlorine in your pool.

Main disadvantages of hydrogen peroxide:

• It has low persistence: its effectiveness is significant and immediate, but its disinfection power then declines quite quickly.
• Hydrogen peroxide disrupts the reading of the "chlorine" reagents for a few days (or even longer depending on the product). But this remains a negligible disadvantage compared to the major disadvantage of the accumulation of stabilizer in the pool.
• Food grade hydrogen peroxide for use in swimming pools and spas is still very difficult to obtain in Quebec and very few retailers carry it in stores.

Here is a distributor in Quebec: http://www.safiadistribution.com/fr/piscine/