Forum: Chlorine Alternatives: UV, Ozone, Baquacil (PHMB), etc

Help! OK here is my story, bear with me. Just bought the house last summer, pool was already closed for us. Opened this May, found out it was a...

Hey all, Well after weeks of dealing with milky water, and reading every post on this forum and spending several hundreds of dollars of that Baqua...

After struggling for a six weeks this summer with cloudy water again, I found this forum and started dumping bleach in the pool yesterday around...

This is our fourth year with Baquacil. Year one was perfect. Year two we had slight problems at the end of the season. Last year, year three, perfect...

I am having cloudly water after 2 yrs on Baqucil Ultra. In-Ground Pool 16x38 Just found this site... What or where is the step-by-step procedure for...

This foum has convinced me to convert from Baquacil to the BBB system. We have a 15 foot round above ground pool with an expanded bottom that comes...

WELL! I am speeding down this Pool Road pretty fast it seems! One month ago I got an Intex Easy Set AG pool - 20'x12'x48"holding about 4,450...

Hi Everyone, I am very happy to have found this forum, albeit too late as I already tried to convert my pool from Baquacil to chlorine at the...

First of all let me say that I dont know anything about pools and I was really happy to stumble upon this website. I just purchased a 25 year old...

I am planning to change from Baquciil to the BBB system. I have ordered the test kit from Ben and will start the conversion when it arrives. Once...

Well I just discovered this site yesterday. I'm on my 3rd year with Bac and my water is milky and smelly...yuk! I've been running my filter...

Just installed a 15 x30 ABG at end of last summer. We live in South Texas and I now finding out that using the Baquacil system is not working. I am...

We are switching from Pristine Blue to BBB. From an earlier post I made: http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthread.php?t=3187 I was told not to...

Help ! When we run our filter there is a foam on the surface...we use bacquacil and a sand filter the sand has just been changed

I read Ben's post mentioning PB but want to make sure this will work: Mom's giving up on PB having seen the spectacular results of BBB in my own...

We are so excited to have found this site a few weeks ago! We, like most, had 2 good years with Baquacil and then have struggled ever since. When...

Wow.... This is my third year with our pool, and the first without Baquajunk and the first with sparkling, unbelievable water. I just wanted to...

Hi! Please bear with me. I bought a used portable hot tub. It is a couple years old, and supposedly only used for one year. The owner has...

I have read numerous posts on converting from baquacil to chlorine, what to do, how to do it, and what to use to do it. I am excited to learn that...

My 30000 gallon IG pool looked great using Baquacil the first year I moved in. Last year, I spent well over $1000 on Baquacil products and the...

Just curious, in this conversion process can you swim in the pool?

we went to the pool store with a sample and told them we wanted to convert. They told us to buy CLC ... what is clc and i hear everyone talk about...

I couldn't find this readily in the archives. We just bought a house with above ground pool. They used SoftSwim products. It has a sand filter. ...

Hi - newbie here and help would be much appreciated. We just bought a house in the Winter with a 20,000gal IG pool (fiberglass/vinal liner) and a...

Hey everyone, First let me say that it's great to have found this forum. I'm looking forward to learning from the expertise on this board! We...

ok Ill try to make this easy???? 28ft round above ground useing baqucil for the 4th year, sand filter, living in milwaukee wis, cant aford this stuff...

Feed up with SoftSwim . . . expensive and a pain. I've read much about conversions for pools with sand filters. What potential problems might I...

I have been fighting the evils of cloudy water in a Baquacil pool (24 ft. abg - 14,400 ga.) for three years and I have finally given in to attempting...

I just went to the pool store and was sold 2 bags of oxidizer, and was told to put them in the skimmer. On the other hand, my pool guy and everyone...

A general question to anyone that told the evil ones that started you on baquacil that you were switching to chlorine, were they at all surprised? ...