Alternatives to chlorine. How to use PHMB (Baquacil). How to recover from using it
___________________________________________ All the Chlorine Alternatives (that I've heard about) ( currently, this is just a reminder to me of...
______________________________________________ FAQs & Guides: Chlorine Alternatives ______________________________________________ Chlorine...
I am going to throw a slowball at you all. Since I just went from being (in my mind) the smartest pool guy, based off of a week of research and...
Hello, Just purchased a pool and the salesman talked about Prestine Blue. I liked what he had to say and they read online that is when i foudn...
I've never had a pool before. I don't know how long the previous owners used Baquacil. I went to the same pool store they used and opened the pool...
I have seen a number of threads/posts discussing conversion of a Baquacil pool to chlorine. I know I could read though all of them, but I've got my...
I've just started the switch over from Baquacil to Chlorine today around 6 PM. My Shock and Baquacil levels where normal, not low, and I still had...
We used Baquacil for 15 years. The first 12 were great but the last 3 were nightmares. Last year we barely swam at all. We spent a fortune on...
Like so many others I’m used Baquacil (for 2 seasons at our house here in middle TN) and I’m ready to switch to chlorine – as part of ‘pool start-up’...
Hi pool forum - I have a 10,000 gal above ground pool with vinyl liner that has used baqaucil since it was built approximately 9-10 years ago. the...
Second post, different subject. I've got a vinyl liner, 25,000 gal, Bacquacil. Solar heated temp is about 85. Pool was slightly cloudy. ...
I've found 2 different procedures to perform this conversion. One suggests starting with non-chlorine shock (pool store recommended, too). The...
Hi everyone. I haven't posted since I converted last year. So far things are going well. I must say that I'm somewhat surprised at the amount of...
I am totally lost. We recently moved a 27 ft pool from my in-laws house. I know nothing about this, and was talked into using baquacil. We filled...
Hi there, new to the forum. I am a bit embarassed to admit that I am a baquacil user, worked great the first year, nothing but problems so far this...
I just bought my first house in March of this year that has a 24' AG pool. I have never ever been around pools in my life so this is all new to me....
I just opened the pool today,(15x30 above ground) and topped it off with water. I started the conversion with 2.5 gallons of bleach. I know I need...
Hello all! I've been mainly a lurker here reading the trials and tribulations of everyone else, but I decided to make the switch to Chlorine from...
I have 24' above ground pool. Last year I closed it up and did not add any new Soft Swim (Baq) Chemical. I had some green algae on the bottom of the...
Hey all, I've been reading on how to convert from Baq to Cl, lots of good info. I have a few questions tho' so any help is GREATLY appreciated. ...
I plan on starting the Bacqua to BBB conversion tonight. I let the pool go at the end of last season so that I'd have less conversion headache and...
I'm sure that I'll have lots of folks telling me I'm wrong on this - but I chose to stick with Baquacil because I didn't want to manage it so...
ok baq conversion, as we can see Im convered added 2-gallons 12.% last night at 10pm at 9am cl reading was 10-15ppm so its holding over night..now...
I started the opening of my pool late this year and had do deal with some pretty significant amount of algae this year. I ended out super...
ok Ill try to make this simple, 28ft above ground sand filter, milw wi, took cover off not to bad i put 4gallons of 12,5% shock on thursday, water...
Hi all, I just wanted to let you know that I have completed my conversion process from Baquacil to Chlorine. All in all, the process wasn't as bad as...
Last year, I let all the Baquacil levels run out - then added chlorine to close. Now, I looked under the cover and the pool water is BLACK. Any...
Hi Folks, I am fairly new to this site but have been reading thru a host of posts on this forum and I can't seem to find all the right steps to...
For all you now using chlorine, how often are you having to add chemicals or do other types of maintenance and amount of time its taking? From what...
Since we only have the Walmart test kit it's hard to feel secure that we're finished with our conversion. Our water's been perfectly clear for two...
I preface this with thanks for the info on the conversion process. Mine took place late June and only went to a clear-green color before eliminating...
we just got done making that conversion this is the second day to hold our cl at 15 and our ph is 7.5 do we need to add some kind of stablizer or...
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