Opening pool - going to try BBB/Best Guess method

[PoolDoc]

Hi nezzar;

Don't get your kit from Leslies -- they only sell the DPD tabs version (at least online). Use the Amazon links in my sig OR Google and order the Taylor K2006 or 2006C.

Do get a cheap OTO / phenol red kit from Walmart or where ever if you open before the Taylor unit arrives. Getting one is a good idea anyhow, for quick checks.

Do NOT assume you'll open algae free, or with stabilizer. Add 2 gallons of plain 6% bleach per 10,000 gallons IMMEDIATELY upon opening. If your chlorine is not high near sunset, repeat, and again in the AM if it's not high.

Don't put 8 gallons of bleach in small pool, until you know what your stabilizer is. That's 48 ppm dose, and would bleach the heck out of most liners and some paints. (If you have a plastered, but unpainted, concrete pool you can put whatever you like in.)

Good luck.

Ben

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Hi Ben, thanks for the fast response and the helpful tips.

I was actually looking at this kit from Leslies: http://www.lesliespool.com/Home/Pool...its/81329.html which looks to be exactly the same as the one on Amazon, just 20 bucks more for the impatient. I guess I could be wrong, though.

I already have a cheap kit that came with the house pool - should that be good enough if I were to wait for my new kit to arrive in the mail? Obviously if I could wait I'd prefer to throw you guys some help with your affiliate links.

My pool is about 30,000 gallons, which was why I was thinking 8 - that would work out to 16ppm, right? I figured I'd go for broke but if you think I could get by with 12 ppm (6 gallons of bleach), then OK. I have a concrete (unpainted) pool so I'm not worried about nuking anything with bleach in my pool, except, of course, all organic matter. Am I getting the math right on this? Should be 1 gal 6% household bleach = 2ppm in 10,000 gallons of pool water if I read your guides right.

Well, I will follow your advice when I open, since you didn't say either way I'm assuming the brushing/vaccuming/raking goes without saying. God knows what's under that cover.

BTW, thanks for your advice and for running this forum.

Hi nezzar;

Don't get your kit from Leslies -- they only sell the DPD tabs version (at least online). Use the Amazon links in my sig OR Google and order the Taylor K2006 or 2006C.

Do get a cheap OTO / phenol red kit from Walmart or where ever if you open before the Taylor unit arrives. Getting one is a good idea anyhow, for quick checks.

Do NOT assume you'll open algae free, or with stabilizer. Add 2 gallons of plain 6% bleach per 10,000 gallons IMMEDIATELY upon opening. If your chlorine is not high near sunset, repeat, and again in the AM if it's not high.

Don't put 8 gallons of bleach in small pool, until you know what your stabilizer is. That's 48 ppm dose, and would bleach the heck out of most liners and some paints. (If you have a plastered, but unpainted, concrete pool you can put whatever you like in.)

Good luck.

Ben

[PoolDoc]

Right kit; right calcs . . . and nothing to worry about if you have an unpainted concrete pool.

Go for it!

Ben

PS. Didn't know Leslie's had started selling the K2006.