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Calif Bill wrote:
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Calif Bill wrote:
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10-4 on that Bass. Keep it simple and don't buy everything the kid
at
the pool store sells.
I use enough tri-chlor to maintain a reasonable stabylizer level
(that
10-20 you spealk of) and bleach to maintain the chlorine level. I
end
up with a shot of acid now and then to hold the pH. That keeps my
pool
sparkling.

I hear tell of people having to use acid to hold pH. Here in GA, my
water is just the opposite, you need to raise pH. Instead of using
pH
Up, use 20 mule team borax, right out of the grocery store for about
10% of the price!. Raise alkalinity with baking soda, the same exact
thing the pool store sells you for three times as much. I use plain
old
bleach to both keep my chlorine level up to the range specified by
the
amount of stabilizer, and to shock. Here is a website that has that
information, you'll like it, this guy is a pool brain!

http://www.poolsolutions.com

and here is a forum of people who use his methods:
http://www.poolforum.com

If you go in the forums, someone has even written a small program
called bleach calc, you just plug in the capacity of your pool in
gallons, if you are using 5% or 6% (ultra) bleach, and it will tell
you
the amount of bleach to add to get to x ppm. It also has calcs for
adjusting pH, Alk, and stabilizer. I only use pucks if I go on
vacation
or something, so I have to add stabilizer once in awhile.
This guy also debunks a lot of pool store myths. I laugh at the
beginning of the season when I go to the pool store to watch those
guys
load everybody up with a couple hundred bucks worth of pretty much
worthless crap, and I get to smallest package of pucks I can get!
Anyway, check these guys out!


Swimming pool chlorine and household bleach are both Sodium
Hypochlorite.
Just calculate which is cheaper to buy. The pool chlorine is 2-3
times
the
strength of normal bleach. And Ultra Clorox is about 1/3 stronger
than
standard bleach.

You can't understand a damned thing, can you, Bill? Most chlorine you
buy for swimming pools is either Tri-chlor or Di-chlor and have
stabilizer added. You keep adding stabilizer, and the chlorine demand
goes up. It's a catch 22. Those who listen to the pool store people are
getting duped. You go the pool store and by your Alkalinity Up from
them at five times the cost of baking soda bought at the store. They
are the EXACT same thing. Then go to the pool store and let them sell
you PH UP, and five times the price of Borax, which is the EXACT same
thing. Then let them sell you tri-chlor pucks that raise your
stabilizer levels to the point where you have to keep your chlorine
levels so high that everything bleaches out in a matter of minutes just
to keep algae from forming.


Buy liquid chlorine from the pool supply store and it is Sodium
Hypochlorite.
f'n idiot. Said nothing about the pucks. Which I use and buy from
Costco
and seems to work well on a gunite pool. So you get the water tested
yearly
and dump some water of the stabilizer gets to high. For the liquid, you
go
to the pool store and buy the liquid which is Sodium Hypochlorite.

Damn, those pool store people must LOVE you! You only test your water
once a year, and just keep adding chlorine? And it isn't just the
pucks, dumb ass. Granular has stabilizer in the form of CYA in it,
also. So you buy your bleach at the pool store and pay about four times
per PPM as you would if you use bleach, and that makes you brilliant??
I suppose you also let them sell you baking soda (Alkalinity UP) for
$1.50 a pound when you can get it in the grocery store for $0.25 a
pound? How about PH UP? Do you let the pool store sell that to you at 5
times the cost of Borax from the grocery? Do you let them talk you into
algaecides at $30 or so a pop?



You get dumber every post. I never have to add soda ash. I have a gunite
pool. So acid gets added. I test the chlorine /ph levels lots of times.
But I take a sample to the pool store and get it tested for everything at
least once a year. I shock with liquid, and chlorinate with pucks. Works
for me you dumbass. Using pucks is very handy when we travel for extended
periods during the summer and the people next door can use the pool and add
some pucks to the floater. My pool looks really fine all the time. I also
use a Polaris to keep it clean. You make the wife vacuum the leaves?