Taylor's Residential Series is designed for spa and pool owners who have low bather loads and test their water between visits from a service technician or trips to their pool supplies store. This series uses the same quality reagents as Taylor's kits for professional analysts. Buyers have a choice of three progressively more sophisticated models: the Basic, the Trouble-Shooter, and the i-CARE, as described below.

 

Every kit in the Residential Series is available in Taylor's classic case—the solid blue, injection-molded plastic kit which is so durable it can be refilled season after season. Select kits are also available in a see-through, thermoformed plastic case Taylor's dubbed "the clamshell." This packaging allows retail shoppers to see all its contents without opening the kit … and leaving a messy shelf behind. Clamshell cases will last through a swim season. Tabs on every case make them easy to hang from hooks, and Basic and Trouble- Shooter kits in the classic case can be displayed on the counter in their colorful shipping/display carton.

 

Residential Series features include .75 oz. reagents color-coded to instructions; sanitizer values for both chlorine and bromine testing (calibrated to work with Taylor pH reagents R-0014, R-0015, and R-0016); five sets of printed-color standards encased in plastic for longevity; and molded fill lines to ensure the correct sample size.

All reagents have a shelf life, whether they are liquids, powders, crystals, tablets, or test-strip pads. If kept dry, powders and crystals are very stable; acids are also long lived. Date of manufacture is not the controlling factor when it comes to shelf life—storage conditions are more important. As with all perishables, reagents are sensitive to environmental influences and will last longer under controlled conditions.

 

Recommendations:

Taylor formulates its reagents to remain effective for at least one year, with only very few exceptions (molybdenum indicator in liquid form is one; after four months old it should be tested against a standard periodically). As a general precaution, replace all reagents more than one year old, or at the beginning of a new testing season.