Excessive bleach consumption

I don't recall off the top of my head if this is a gunite or vinyl pool, but I do sorta remember a pool that Ben was messing with. He took the FC up to some insane number like 45 or so. Maybe it was even 75? I don't remember but it was some crazy big number. Of course, that's only safe to do in a gunite pool, but if you're getting tired of beating on this thing that may be a direction you want to try. I'd use the 12.5% stuff to do that so you don't have to buy out your local grocery store. :D

Michael

Unfortunately I have a vinyl pool, so blasting it at those levels isn't an option. I think I will become a part-time day trader and buy stock in Clorox...

Went and purchased more R-0013 and my CYA is 40. Should I bump it up any or leave it where it is since I am losing FC overnight and battling some wild alien life form in my pool?

BTW- I knew I would end up getting something in my local pool store that I just couldn't live without. Well, they had a Uniden cordless phone that is submersible and waterproof. It also floats. Needless to say, I now own one...How did I survive without one? LOL. I know women get the bad wrap for being compulsive shoppers, but I admit, I am in that category as well. I'm not allowed to go to Bass Pro Shops alone with my buddies again. :)

One other thing, the manager at Leslie's didn't know what DPD powder was. He had some rapid dissolve tablets but said they didn't have powder. I told him it was on their website for sale. I opened the chlorine extreme high and low kit and voila, there it was. I had to buy the whole kit to get the 10 gms of powder. He asked if I was running a commercial pool. I told him no, residential. He then advised me that my chlorine should never get that high and the normal kit was what I needed. I told him I am shocking to about 15 PPM so I needed it. He asked what I used and I told him bleach...the phrase deer in headlights applies here. Then the bleach is bad speech came. I told him I am fine with it and my pool looks fabulous. Long story short, come on Fed-Ex, USPS, or UPS, and get my new kit here so I can avoid this place!

VOL,

I can see it now. Adult beverages, an inadvertant tumble into that beautiful pool, and never losing a syllable because of the new phone!! :D

I see no reason to increase the CYA. It has no affect on the organics you're fighting.....and may actually make your Cl a little less effective.

Keep pouring the Clorox in there!

LOL! I knew other men would see why I had to have this phone...

Ben always warns folks to be circumspect around pool stores. If you say "Liquid Chlorine" they don't blink, but go into a hissy fit and have a cow if you say bleach. :eek:

But that's nothing--if they tell you to use the "slug" method to lower total alkalinity and you tell them the truth that it doesn't work and it damages the liner, they go BALLISTIC!:D

11 PM reading 5.5 PPM. I added 4 jugs of bleach, which should get me to about 15.5 PPM overnight. I expected a drop today due to 90+ heat and a heavy swimmer load. I'll check again tomorrow AM and see what I lose overnight.

At 12:20 AM I am still up so I decided to test again. The last time I tested an hour after I poured bleach in a jug raised my FC 2.5 PPM. My FC was at 5.5, and I added 4 jugs, assuming I would be around 15.5. However, I was only at 13.5, so I am pouring a jug through my skimmer to get around 15.5-16 PPM. The other test I did was with generic bleach when I got a rise of 2.5 PPM, and now I am using Clorox. They are both 6%.

At 9 AM I had 14 PPM FC, so I lost 2-2.5 PPM from midnight to 9. I added a jug of bleach through the skimmer since it will be 92 today and we will have a heavy swimmer load. I am going to have to make another bleach run today.

You seem to be making progress! Best of luck.