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What Is The Hamilton Index For Pool And Hot Tub Water?

Make adjusting your water chemistry a breeze using the Hamilton Index! And no, you don’t need any new chemicals either!

The Hamilton Index is a better way to adjust the chemicals in the water of swimming pools and hot tubs. It re-thinks all the old ways of testing and adjusting chemicals in order to give you better balanced water with much less cost and effort.

Here’s The History - In the mid 1990's a California chemical research group was looking for a way to improve the chemical sanitization of swimming pools and hot tub spas. What they developed was named the Hamilton Index. It involves rethinking the ways people have always been taught to handle pool and hot tub water chemistry.

Most of the pool and hot tub industry uses what is called the Langelier Saturation Index (LSI) for water balancing recommendations. The LSI was developed in the 1930’s for municipal water systems, and was required to be heavily modified to work for pools and spas. However it turns out that using LSI is not the best way to handle the water of pools and spas. The Hamilton Index was developed from the ground up to work specifically for the...