Hi gang:

6% generic bleach is $0.016/ounch at Wal-Mart here in St. Louis. I was doubling the price for 6% because I always seem to need double the amount talked about on these forums compared to 12.5% from the pool store.

So, in every gallon of 6% bleach there is 120 ounces of water. What do you guys think the quality of that water is? What do you think the total disolved solids and calcium hardness is like?

The reason I ask about the water in bleach is to promote bleach use for people trying to lower the parameters you can only lower by adding good water such as CH (excluding rare high pH method), CYA and TDS.

I'll leave you with one more thought...

Shouldn't we be able to calculate define units of hydrochloric acid required to offset a given amount of bleach? Not talking about other things that would make your pH change - just the bleach - you should be able to say for every gallon of bleach add 4 ounches of acid, right? If you add two gallons of bleach then 8 ounces of acid. Make sense?

Thanks in advance!

-Bill
St. Louis, Missouri