How-To: Know the Size of Your Swimming Pool
To maintain the health of your pool, there are two main areas to be considered: Chemical Mechanical For the chemical part, you always need to estimate the size of pool first. For example, if you need to add chlorine shock, Leslie's Swimming Pool Supplies always ask your pool size in gallons before they decide how much chlorine powder you need for your pool. If your pool has regular shapes such as rectangles or circles, it's relatively easy to come up the pool size. For example, for a rectangular pool, its size can be estimated by: Average depth * width * length If you measure your three dimension in feet, you will come up total cubic feet of your pool size. Converting Cubic Feet to Gallons To convert cubic feet to gallons, you can use the following formula: 1 ft 3 * 7.48 gallon/ft 3 = 7.48 gallons To simplify, you may use 7.5 instead of 7.48 in you calculation. If you have an irregular shape, say, kidney shape as shown below, it takes a bit ...