RVJames: Going on Vacation for a week how do I leave my pool?

[Watermom]

And, since the trichlor tabs are very acidic and drive your pH down, make sure your pH level is 7.8 or so before you leave to give some wiggle room there.

(By the way, when you return from vacation, I'd suggest that you stop using the pucks. You don't really want that CYA level to continue to climb. It's pretty high already, and those tabs have CYA in them.)

[Rvjames]

This is very helpful thank you. It is very disappointing that the pool shops rave about the pucks without telling you any details on the long term out come I just bought 60 LB of them is there any use at all?

[AnnaK]

Yes. Use them at the beginning of the season to build up your CYA. Your inground pool in Jersey probably doesn't freeze as our AGP does, and I don't really know whether the freezing has anything to do with it, but we lose all our CYA over winter, from 60 ppm at closing in October to 0 ppm when we open at the end of April. That's when I run trichlor pucks in my inline feeder exclusively. I switch to straight bleach when I've reached my goal CYA of 50 ppm.

We also use the pucks when we go on vacation because we don't have anyone to add bleach now and then. Our vacations are always toward the end of the season and I don't care that much by that time about adding more CYA since we close the pool soon after returning home anyway.

[aylad]

If you keep the bucket tightly closed, and stored in a dry place, they will keep until next season. Just don't let them get damp, and if you see the top of the bucket bowing outward, wear safetyglasses and don't breathe when you open the lid!!

Janet

[Rvjames]

Thank you All this is the most useful information I have got.