1 lb bag of shock is only 12 ounces??? are we getting ripped off?????

[Gretzky99]

or do you measure granular differently. Does it go by weight?
I dumped the leslies power powder plus into a measuring cup to use a half bag and it's supposed to be 8 oz as per their instructions. They said to use 1 lb 8 oz of their shock. Well it came out only 12 oz for the whole bag!...unless my dollar store measuring cup is wrong haha..

I await customer service's response.

Any input on this??

[CarlD]

You are confusing volume/liquid measure, with measure by weight. 1 lb bags of Di-chlor or Cal-hypo granules should WEIGH 1 lb=16 ounces. The volume measure is irrelevant. The instructions refer to weight. 1 lb of Dichlor powder will add about 6.6 ppm of chlorine to a 10,000 gallon pool, or 3.3 ppm to a 20,000 gallon pool.

If the label says it's 1 lb then it should weigh 1 lb, regardless of volume.

(There is no such thing as "shock" when it comes it comes to chlorinating your pool. "Shock" is a verb, not a noun. What you have is either Di-chlor or Cal-Hypo)

[Gretzky99]

thanks for the reply!

[BigDave]

An ounce of water does weigh one ounce. A pint's a pound the world around.

From the title of this thread, I expected to see small shock bags - A "pound" of coffe's now about 11oz.

[CarlD]

I never heard that! But a liter of water weighs 1 kilo.

[BigDave]

Right, and 1 cubic centimeter of water has 1 gram mass.