Newbie with a swamp

[PoolDoc]

Your town is not close to anything, so I'm guessing you need to stock up to finish the job, BEFORE you start.

Trying to clean up a 20x40 swamp with 6% bleach is going to take a LOT of jugs of bleach. Can you get your hands on a 100lb drum of calcium hypochlorite? That might be the easiest solution.

But:

• DO complete the chart;
• DO get a K-2006 *and* an OTO test kit (see test kit info page in my sig)
• DO list what you have on hand, and what form of chlorine is most available to you

[AllenE]

Thanks AnnaK and PoolDoc. Yes I am located in the middle of nowhere. I do have some of the standard store bought chemicals on hand like stabilizer, PH up, PH down, calcium chloride, floculant, Trichlor tablets and 1# bags of Dichlor “shock”. I wish I would have found this forum several hundred dollars ago. Looks like the bleach may be my only option right now. I will be ordering the K-2006 test kit soon. Right now I am using a basic OTO drop test kit and HTH strips. When I get the CYA levels up should I add 30 gallons of bleach at once or a period of time?

[PoolDoc]

Had to look - you've got a vinyl pool, so you probably want to limit beach additions to 25 ppm equivalents at one time. Given a PF of 4, each gallon of bleach (abt 1/2 lb of chlorine gas equivalent) will add about 2 ppm, so you're talking 12 - 13 gallon doses at one time.

Do you have access to a Sams Club? Can you wait till AFTER you have the K2006 to start the process? I can give you a much better recipe, if you have the K2006, and run a bucket test BEFORE you start.

[AllenE]

I am ordering the K2006 today. Have had over 6" of rain in the past 36 hours and more expected today but I want to get started as soon as possible. Not sure what you mean by a bucket test. Also, no access to Sams Club....