🤿 In-ground Pool owners - Question?

[Father Kit Cool Gun Garth]

Before I go out and buy a piece of copper pipe, has anyone heard of this method, and if so, does it work?

 

[Cheyenne Ranger, 48747L]

google is your friend

 

https://www.swimmingpoolsteve.com/pages/copper-pipe.html

one more

 

https://www.solarponics.com/can-a-copper-pipe-eliminate-swimming-pool-algae/#:~:text=This has made copper pipes,algae elsewhere in the pool.

[Alpo]

I don't know. I don't have a pool. But --- it says a 3-inch piece of pipe.

 

One would assume it specifies a 3 inch because it needs x amount of copper in the water. So is that a 3-inch piece of 3/8 tubing, or half inch tubing? 3/4 inch, maybe? 1 inch?

 

At what point does it quit being tubing and become pipe?

 

But if you need x amount of copper, then it seems like the instructions would say something like "3-inch piece of inch and a half copper pipe".

 

 

[Father Kit Cool Gun Garth]

3 minutes ago, Cheyenne Ranger, 48747L said:

google is your friend

 

https://www.swimmingpoolsteve.com/pages/copper-pipe.html

one more

 

https://www.solarponics.com/can-a-copper-pipe-eliminate-swimming-pool-algae/#:~:text=This has made copper pipes,algae elsewhere in the pool.

 

Thanks for the references.

I did the research online; however, as we all know you cannot trust the Internet on all issues.

Therefore, the reason I was inquiring as to whether one of the Pards had an in-ground pool and if they tried this method, whether it saved them from having to constantly clean algae. 

[Pat Riot]

There is a cure. Copper plate your entire pool. Simple. 

[J-BAR #18287]

From my daughter who has a pool:

 

Yes….BUT copper can also contribute to greening of hair. So we avoid adding products with copper. At least that was the advice of the pool forum I follow! 

[Marshal Dan Troop 70448]

3 hours ago, Alpo said:

 

 

At what point does it quit being tubing and become pipe?

 

 

 

 

 

[bgavin]

I saw that post title and immediately thought, "As seen in J.C. Whitney"

[Father Kit Cool Gun Garth]

Like what Steve had to say....

"May as well just put the pennies right into the skimmer themselves and cut out the middleman altogether!"

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

8 minutes ago, Father Kit Cool Gun Garth said:

Like what Steve had to say....

"May as well just put the pennies right into the skimmer themselves and cut out the middleman altogether!"

If they have enough copper.

[Rip Snorter]

Pennies have been copper plated zinc since 1982.  They haven't been pure copper since the 1850's.