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    Default Re: Adding Borax to Make your Pool Resistant to Algae

    Quote Originally Posted by waterbear View Post
    To use sodium percarbonate on a badly fouled pool (in other words, a swamp with lots of stuff on the bottom!)
    If you do this, next spring, I'd be grateful if you'd do pictures and record doses and results.

    I've done something similar in the distant past, but we don't have enough info to know exactly when and how to recommend it.

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    Default Re: Adding Borax to Make your Pool Resistant to Algae

    My pool stays open year round and never turns green and I am not working on other people's pools these days.
    Retired pool store and commercial pool maintenance guy.

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    Default Re: Adding Borax to Make your Pool Resistant to Algae

    Yeah, that's sorta my problem, too.

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