I have been pool cursed for years. Unfortunately this year I am financially cursed as well. In the past I would spend hundreds of dollars on chemicals mostly chlorine to get pool open. This past winter for whatever reason I noticed the cover caved in and only about a foot of water in pool in Jan. Since I heard that an empty pool will shrink the liner and having no way to refill I decided to grab the discharge hose from my basement sump pump and stick it in the pool. A few days later we had a freakishly warm winter storm and within a few days pool was full. Cover torn and floating on top. Pool still full so liner was not leaking never really figured out where water went. Now its time to open pool. currently dark green with large frog population. Since I cant spend hundreds of dollars on 5 gallon jugs of chlorine is there anyway to use bleach to get started then switch back to normal chems once I get it going, and advice would be appreciated I only ask that if you advise please be it out of real life experience as opposed to " i had a friend who"
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