Pee in pool

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To be horrified.

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DD2 has just informed me that the chlorine smell at the pool is in fact pee. Is it really true?

Ah whatever it is, it's a bloody lovely smell

No. It isn't

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It's the smell of reacted chlorine isn't it, so once its reacted with urine that's the smell you smell I think

It's not urine directly that you smell, it's what you get from the reaction between chlorine and urine / sweat etc.

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Do you know what smells of chlorine? Chlorine. Hope that helps.

The chlorine granules I add to our temporary pool before anyone has gone in it smell very much of chlorine. As does the water the following morning before anyone has gone in it.

You have been reading too many copy paste and pass on to all your friends on FaceBook.

Our local 25 metre pool holds 1,237 tons of water. You would need a lot of people peeing in it to make that smell.

The Chlorine 'smell' that you associate with pools is Chloramines, which are indeed when sweat, pee and other Nitrogen based waste are combined with Chlorine.

People often think this is too much Chlorine in the pool, but standard practice is to add more chlorine to fully remove the Nitrogen compounds as gas.

A pool with lots of free chlorine doesn't smell.

when I fill my pool with fresh water and dissolve chlorine in it, why does it smell of a swimming pool then? pre-kid invasion so no urine or sweat.

No, it's not. I've cleaned with chlorine (a long time ago), it smells of chlorine. I assure you I didn't pee in it.

My hot tub smells like chlorine when I tip in chlorine granules after using it. I promise you we don’t pee in it!

I used to swim in a hospital pool that used saline instead of chlorine, it was very odd!

There is a well known story here where I live that Mums tell their kids when they go to the pool - there is something in the water that, if the kid pees, the water will change colour and leave a trail behind.

Why does it smell exactly like the chlorine tablets I use for our pool then? They haven't been peed on.

It's a learning opportunity! Tell DD2 to show some initiative and research things rather than believing every piece of nonsense just because it's on the Internet.

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There is a well known story here where I live that Mums tell their kids when they go to the pool - there is something in the water that, if the kid pees, the water will change colour and leave a trail behind.

Haha, yes i was told it was a green trail if you did a wee.

Seriously, tik tok? You're believing a tik tok? Ffs

I don't know about the smell but chlorine combined with urine is the reason your eyes and nose are sore and itchy after swimming in a pool where someone has been an unhygienic arsehole.

This is just one reason I don't swim any more.

No, it's not. I've cleaned with chlorine (a long time ago), it smells of chlorine. I assure you I didn't pee in it.

This is what I was going to say; I use chlorine bleach in my white laundry, and it smells like a swimming pool. To my knowledge, no one has peed, sweat, or anything else in it.

We have a pool, use chlorine twice weekly. It does not smell of anything at all.

Chlorine has a light smell anyway, however, if you mix it with urine or sweat it creates
chloramines which cause the strong smell and stop chlorine from being able to it’s job properly. Chlorine doesn’t just zap urine and sweat out of the water! This is why some pools ask you to shower before entering. Apparently some deodorants conflating chemicals that have a similar effect and I’m wondering how much sun cream also effects this... anyway if you smell a sharp chlorine smell it definitely has sweat, urine, deodorant and other nitrates in it - which means the chlorine isn’t working well, which means you could get sick.

Our tap water sometimes smells of chlorine. Has someone been sweating in my taps?