Forum: Using Chlorine and Chlorinating Chemicals

Well they finished acid washing by 10:30 am and by 5PM I had 12,300 gallons of water in my pool! Less than I had expected. Using the irrigation line...

I am having to refill my pool due to a leak. How much bleach and backing soda should I start with? I assume I will need stabilizer as well. What...

I have no chlorine reading my pool is cloudy and cant see the bottom. I took a sample to the local pool store and was told that i need 33lbs of...

When I bought my house the pool was set up with a bromine feeder and I inhereted a 50lb container of bromine so I continued to go with bromine. My...

My son's birthday is this weekend I've read all the articles on the site and learned alot thanks to everyones helpful info. my pool is an inground...

I've looked and can't find it. Is the old pool calculator around here anywhere? Not the online version, but the downloadable one from years ago? I...

For god sakes can we please agree to just call this stuff by the IUPAC and go with hydrochloric acid??? It would stop me from having the word...

So, you mean to tell me that everybody around here just uses regular bleach in their pool? Isn't that gonna bleach out my liner? Won't it fade my...

I just accidentally poured splashless bleach in my pool. It foamed! What is this stuff? The label doesn't list ingrediants and now I am angry and...

I bought Clorox regular bleach at Costco. I just refilled my entire pool and was starting to add the bleach when I felt the bleach with my fingers...

I have a vinyl pool, and have been told i should never use muriatic acid to decrease the ph, only dry acid. Does anyone on this forum use muriatic...

This is a 10 year old vinyl IG pool that I have been maintaining using bleach borax for 7 years. This year for the first time on opening (NJ) , after...

A few weeks ago, we finally started getting the larger jugs of WalMart bleach in stock, but all the labels are newly redesigned. Just wanted to call...

I've spent hundreds in chlorine just so far this year and I'm at my wit's end. My pool looks beautiful - it's clear straight to the bottom (30K...

11,000 VL inground pool- CYA 40 FC now 0..... pool is clear. i ran out of my taylor drops but recived them today. 1.42 gallons of 6% will add ?...

Hello, this is my first post. I have recently opened my pool a few weeks ago. I noticed a lot of algae at the time. I did the normal pool opening...

I finally got away from the pucks this year and I'm using bleach and calcium hypochlorite. What is the best way to put this into the pool...just...

I really want to start off using the BBB method. I experimented with it last year and saw that I did save a lot of money by not listening to the guy...

5 days ago I needed to raise my calcium level up with 35 lbs. Does anyone know how long it takes to completely dissolve or absorb? My water is...

Hi, About 2 weeks ago I had what I assume was an algae bloom -- cloudy white pool. After trying to cure this with granular pool shock from...

Does anyone know of a good source for cheap bleach. The price seems to be going up all the time. The cheapest I can find is about $1.30 for a 96 oz....

We've been fighting cloudy water since opening and disappearing chlorine. I have been reading that the cloudiness is algae trying to come through...

hi all, i've been trying to wrap my mind around a question about maintaining FC, and i just can't decide which side to take. let's say there are...

solid cover inground about 12,000 gallons vinyl lined. DE filter. pool oped with slimy walls and a tad green.leaves and sticks on the bollom. ...

A couple of months ago I went to WalMart and bought a dozen of the large jugs of bleach. The guy stocking the area threw me the usual "you're crazy"...

I think I did something dumb. I didn't read that the stabilizer should be added to the skimmer. I poured about a cup or two directly into the...

18K IG ---------- Ben's Kit : FC 0 PH 7.4 ALK 70 CALC 180 CYA 20 just added 4llbs Stabalizer today , but I don't think that's the issue....

Hi, This is my third pool season and the first season that I follow the BBB program. I’ve been using bleach for almost three months now and I’m...