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To those of you who pay to have a swimming pool looked after,please beware that some people who are looking after pools

are using copper sulphate in pools that they are looking after.

Some are also using empty zerochlor bottles and putting copper sulphate in zerochlor bottles and letting the customer think that they are

using zerochlor in the pools. If your pool man does use zerochlor in your pool please make sure you see him open the bottle

if you are around and make sure when the top is taken off the bottle that there is a white paper with foil back sealing the bottle under the cap.

Is copper sulphate dangerous to use in your pool,well i would not like to pay a pool cleaner to maintain my pool with zerochlor and then he uses copper sulphate !

Check out the link below

http://www.disabled-world.com/medical/a ... estone.php


Copper sulfate is an irritant. The usual routes by which humans can receive toxic exposure to copper sulfate are through eye or skin contact, as well as by inhaling powders and dusts. Skin contact may result in itching or eczema. Eye contact with copper sulfate can cause conjunctivitis, inflammation of the eyelid lining, ulceration, and clouding of the cornea.

Please make sure that your poolman is not using this copper sulphate in your pools,if your pool is starting to look unusually very blue recently that could be a sign ,even if your not paying him to use zerochlor,do not allow copper sulphate to be put into your pool.

At the moment i have not got the proof i need that certain pool cleaners are doing this with zerochlor bottles and this is why i am asking you to be vigilant ,a pool cleaner

has no reason to take away an empty zerochlor bottle from your home after he has used it in your pool,he can put it in your garbage bin,why take away an empty plastic bottle when he could drop it in your bin !

Hi bargainboozeandwines,
Most of the Zerochlor bottles I've bought,
the white seal is broken when I open it!!!
Off the shelf.
Navek

Navek, please can you tell us where you are buying your Zerochlor from?

If the white seal is broken, what is under the white plastic cap when you remove it and what colour is the liquid inside?

Looking forward to your reply.

Thank you

Navek wrote:Hi bargainboozeandwines,
Most of the Zerochlor bottles I've bought,
the white seal is broken when I open it!!!
Off the shelf.
Navek

Hi Navek

All ZC bottles are sealed at the neck of the bottle and under the cap the opening of the bottle is also sealed.

Where do you buy your ZC navek

Hi the last bottle İ purchased was from pool care on the main coast road opposite credit west in Catalkoy.The bottle was sealed at the neck it also had a white seal which had not been tampered with and the colour of the liquid was blue.

interceptor wrote:Hi the last bottle İ purchased was from pool care on the main coast road opposite credit west in Catalkoy.The bottle was sealed at the neck it also had a white seal which had not been tampered with and the colour of the liquid was blue.

Cheers interceptor

That is just how the bottles should be .

People who have their pool maintained should be vigilant as copper sulphate is definitely being used to make

the pool water look beautiful.

If you're paying for chlorine you want chlorine to be used and if paying for ZC you want ZC to be used,copper sulphate is very cheap

to buy and is used by some gardeners .

Hi bargainboozeandwines,

You're the one warning customers to check their seals...

"If your pool man does use zerochlor in your pool please make sure you see him open the bottle
if you are around and make sure when the top is taken off the bottle that there is a white paper with foil back sealing the bottle under the cap."

"To those of you who pay to have a swimming pool looked after,please beware that some people who are looking after pools are using copper sulphate in pools that they are looking after."

"All ZC bottles are sealed at the neck of the bottle and under the cap the opening of the bottle is also sealed."

I'm just stating what I've experienced lately.

By the way, there has not, or ever have been any problems with the contents of any Zerochlor bottles I have purchased.

Jo Ethan
"Navek, please can you tell us where you are buying your Zerochlor from?"
"Looking forward to your reply."
WHY?

Navek

Navek, it sounds to me like these people are trying to help you as you may have been ripped off. Why are you being so hostile?

Hi frontalman,
I have bought from the Importer from day 1.
Never been ripped off.
Been buying lately from a pool shop in Catalkoy.
No problems.
Only stating some facts, not problems
Navek

My pool cleaner, who I trust implicitly, said "I wonder if the people who use ZC, realise just how much Copper Sulphate it has in it"
Having read as much as I could understand on the subject I am one of the people who believe that Chlorine is the only true way to control a pool. With the caveat that the cleaner really has to know what he is doing. Sadly a large proportion of them don't and equally sadly many pool owners don't know the good from the bad. Why should they, I doubt that many Brits and other ex-pats had pools in their back yards.

Navek wrote:Hi bargainboozeandwines,

You're the one warning customers to check their seals...

"If your pool man does use zerochlor in your pool please make sure you see him open the bottle
if you are around and make sure when the top is taken off the bottle that there is a white paper with foil back sealing the bottle under the cap."

"To those of you who pay to have a swimming pool looked after,please beware that some people who are looking after pools are using copper sulphate in pools that they are looking after."

"All ZC bottles are sealed at the neck of the bottle and under the cap the opening of the bottle is also sealed."

I'm just stating what I've experienced lately.

By the way, there has not, or ever have been any problems with the contents of any Zerochlor bottles I have purchased.

Jo Ethan
"Navek, please can you tell us where you are buying your Zerochlor from?"
"Looking forward to your reply."
WHY?

Navek

Here we go again,try to warn people that there could be something untoward and people get hostile.

Navek, yes you used to buy it from the brand owner importer and now you buy it from the distributor in cyprus, Navek my original question was to those who pay to have their pools looked after,it seems YOU look after your own pool so i do not know why you responded to this post ,or maybe i do !

Sophie,sadly your pool cleaner knows nothing about ZC or its structure,there is no copper sulfate in ZC . natural mineral ions copper, silver, zinc, aluminium and gold mean it is a natural biocide which destroys bacteria and algae within your pool or spa without the need for chemicals.

What i am trying to do is let people know that there are some pool cleaners out there who are ripping off their customers who are paying for a service and not getting the service they are paying for,that's the reason for this post,ZC has been here in the market now for almost 5 years and is still the best way to sanitize a pool if you wish to go the non chlorine route,or virtually non chlorine route.

sophie wrote:My pool cleaner, who I trust implicitly, said "I wonder if the people who use ZC, realise just how much Copper Sulphate it has in it"
Having read as much as I could understand on the subject I am one of the people who believe that Chlorine is the only true way to control a pool. With the caveat that the cleaner really has to know what he is doing. Sadly a large proportion of them don't and equally sadly many pool owners don't know the good from the bad. Why should they, I doubt that many Brits and other ex-pats had pools in their back yards.

sophie

Let me know what your pool cleaner has to say about this product,and i might let you into a little secret


https://www.dolphinpools.co.uk/pool-and ... -treatment

"At the moment i have not got the proof i need that certain pool cleaners are doing this with zerochlor bottles.

So you could be mistaken?

Why not wait until you have proof?


"Here we go again,try to warn people that there could be something untoward and people get hostile."

More annoyed, posting without any proof.

Navek wrote:"At the moment i have not got the proof i need that certain pool cleaners are doing this with zerochlor bottles.

So you could be mistaken?

Why not wait until you have proof?


"Here we go again,try to warn people that there could be something untoward and people get hostile."

More annoyed, posting without any proof.

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bargainboozeandwines wrote:

Navek wrote:"At the moment i have not got the proof i need that certain pool cleaners are doing this with zerochlor bottles.

So you could be mistaken?

Why not wait until you have proof?


"Here we go again,try to warn people that there could be something untoward and people get hostile."

More annoyed, posting without any proof.

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No value added to the thread... why?

I think this is a fantastic post,how many of us actually trust our pool cleaning company/guy how long should someone spend actually cleaning the pool 30mins or what I know companies who think its normal for a guy to test the water and walk away after 3mins or some who do not even turn up all for £700 per year rip off or what?

Leither wrote:I think this is a fantastic post,how many of us actually trust our pool cleaning company/guy how long should someone spend actually cleaning the pool 30mins or what I know companies who think its normal for a guy to test the water and walk away after 3mins or some who do not even turn up all for £700 per year rip off or what?

Easy solution - do it yourself!

Groucho wrote:

Leither wrote:I think this is a fantastic post,how many of us actually trust our pool cleaning company/guy how long should someone spend actually cleaning the pool 30mins or what I know companies who think its normal for a guy to test the water and walk away after 3mins or some who do not even turn up all for £700 per year rip off or what?

Easy solution - do it yourself!

And your answer to those who can't or don't live in NC permanently?

If you know they only spend 3 mins then I guess you are watching them at work... so take them to task. If you pay for a service it's a bit mental to let them not provide it.

Always used a floatron. No problems

Darzee wrote:Always used a floatron. No problems

Hello Darzee, you mention Floatron, how often would you need to vacuum the pool for filter clean and back wash with this Floatron. Can you buy this in NC and how often would you need to replace ?

Darzee wrote:Always used a floatron. No problems

Or an Aligator
http://www.aligator.co.uk

geroff wrote:

Darzee wrote:Always used a floatron. No problems

Hello Darzee, you mention Floatron, how often would you need to vacuum the pool for filter clean and back wash with this Floatron. Can you buy this in NC and how often would you need to replace ?

I just spent ages typing a bit about floatron and this system went into check mode so lost it all.

Floatron is a solar powered ioniser. I.e. it filter your water and you use less chemicals so , in the long run, it works out cheaper. The initial unit is quite expensive which is made in the USA but we got ours from an agent in the U.K.

pOOL CLEAN AS NORMAL BUT WITH LESS CHEMICALS .

Feel free to PM me.

After all we are here to help each other right???

geroff wrote: Hello Darzee, you mention Floatron, .......... Can you buy this in NC .......

Don't know, but might find details here?

Thank you jofra for posting that link for me.