Does wearing shorts and shirt in the pool affect the "health" of the pool?

Question

*The clothes are mostly cotton
*What about spas/hot tubs?
*In an apartment situation is it legal for one of the employ to kick you out of the pool just because you are not wearing a bathing suit?

Answer 1

The chemicals used to clear your clothes might leave some residue in the pool which could change the chemistry very slightly. You're more likely to see any change in a hot tub because there's less water. In a pool, the difference would be hard to notice.

Answer 2

Yes it does effect the health of the pool. You need to wear bathing suit material in the pool. They hold onto less lint and dirt. also with cotton clothing, the colors always bleed out even though you may not actually see it with the naked eye. This is how you explain the color of clothes fading over time. The dyes that bleed out will cause the chemical testing of a pool to fail and possibly be shut down. also what seems like a little bit of lint will clog the filter of a pool disabling the filter from cleaning the water. In an apartment situation the emplyee has every right to kick you out for not wearing proper attire into the pool. The apartment complex has hired that employee to uphold the rules. How would you feel if the pool was closed because people wouldn't wear what they were supposed to. The reprecussions could result in the apartment complex giving you a lease violation, charging YOU with the fine the apartment complex will have to pay when the health department fines them, or even an eviction. Dont forget, you signed a lease when you moved into the complex, part of that lease stated that YOU agree to abide ALL RULES set forth by the complex. You cant just choose which rules you want to obey.

Answer 3

Health of the pool? No, cotton should not present any problems that I'm aware of, but I don't know everything. However, some alternative bathing suits such as cutoffs tend to shed threads that could clog the pool's filter system, making such clothing undesirable from a maintenance point of view.

As for the kicking you out of the pool question ... you weren't naked, were you? That could be a matter of law, as in Indecent Exposure. However, pool use rules are not a matter of law, as it's a private pool which is part of the apartment complex and subject to the owner's rules. If they say you have to wear a bathing suit that conforms to their idea of what a bathing suit should be, then you do it or get out.

Basic bathing suits are fairly cheap, so if you're not - go buy one.

Answer 4

Yes, it does affect the chemical balance and filter system of any pool and spa. Why do you think they don't make cotton and wool swim wear?? Specific fabrics are manufactured to withstand chlorine (and other pool chemicals) without absorbing or breaking down when immersed in pool water. Wear your swimsuit!

As far as the apartments go, yes they can ask you to leave if you are not properly attired. In most cases it does need to be a written or posted rule (check for pool rules signs and check your lease), but as long as it is applied to EVERYONE, its legal.

Sorry!

Answer 5

As a rule, non-pool-specific clothing is harmful to the health of the pool. Fibers and extra dirt can work to clog the filters, and make the pumps work harder. dyes and other things in the clothing can also affect the pH levels of the pool, which is not good.

It Is legal for them to kick you out of the pool if there are posted signs (which there usually are) that restrict clothing in the pool, or if that rule is in your lease (sometimes). anyway, use of the pool is a privilege, NOT a right.

Answer 6

Well to begin with, the water in the pools contain chlorine which acts as a bleach and also as a disinfectant. The clothes that a swimmer wears can affect the health of the pool by contaminating as there may be other chemicals in the clothes that may have a reaction to chlorine.

Answer 7

Yes - a pool requires a balance of chemicals and wearing clothes in a pool with throw off the balance. So, yes - they can kick you out for not wearing proper attire.

Answer 8

Yes cloths can harm a pools filtering system. Bathing suits are made not to shed extra fibers. I was at a resort that didn't allow any one in the pool unless they were naked.

Answer 9

Yes, cotton absorbes the chlorine, which means more maintenance and cost to measure and add more to keep the levels correct.

Yes, they can kick you out of the pool just like they can tell you to turn your music down and not to light bon fires in the common areas. It's all in your lease agreement.

Answer 10

I don' t know if this is true or not, but when I was a kid, we were told that your clothing...(because it isn't spandex/nylon like bathing suits or swim trunks)...tends to absorb the chlorine in the pool, and not enough chlorine would allow germs that would usually die...to survive.