I would like to add another note. That other forum you mentioned seems to like to latch on to one method of doing things and stick to that.

I remember being told quite clearly NOT to recommend my Shot Glass method of OTO dilution because they didn't want owners to be encouraged to use anything by FAS-DPD for chlorine, since FAS-DPD is really the best way. OK. Their forum, their rules.

That's their style and chosen modus operandi. A simple path with simple steps you don't need to choose from. One way, and only one way to do things. That's fine for them. It works for their site. It's not necessarily wrong, either.

But it's not our style here at Pool Forum and has never been. We are much more of the mind-set that if it works, and isn't dangerous, and we list all the caveats, there's no reason to discourage its usage.

There are LOTS of reasons why a particular technique (like the sock) may be the best way, but also where it may not. It took over TWO WEEKS for about a pound of CYA to dissolve into my pool in an old stocking my wife donated. It was right over the low return, too. I was patient but annoyed. Now I'm thinking it should have been in the skimmer.

Yet when I had an Intex, I had to dissolve CYA in a five gallon bucket, pour off what dissolved, refill, stir, wait, pour off...took over a day, but I didn't have CYA on the bottom. There, a sock would have been MUCH easier.

We will always be proponents of multiple paths to get to the same goal. All of us, Ben, Lisa, Janet, Al and myself ALL realize that while there are many WRONG ways to do something, there is generally more than one RIGHT way to do it, too!

All of us will always be looking for effective alternative methods that fit unusual circumstances. Please don't worry that we are going to adopt that "Only one way, the best way" style. It's just not us.