Excessive bleach consumption

[mwsmith2]

I don't recall off the top of my head if this is a gunite or vinyl pool, but I do sorta remember a pool that Ben was messing with. He took the FC up to some insane number like 45 or so. Maybe it was even 75? I don't remember but it was some crazy big number. Of course, that's only safe to do in a gunite pool, but if you're getting tired of beating on this thing that may be a direction you want to try. I'd use the 12.5% stuff to do that so you don't have to buy out your local grocery store.

Michael

[VOLDADDY]

Unfortunately I have a vinyl pool, so blasting it at those levels isn't an option. I think I will become a part-time day trader and buy stock in Clorox...

[VOLDADDY]

Went and purchased more R-0013 and my CYA is 40. Should I bump it up any or leave it where it is since I am losing FC overnight and battling some wild alien life form in my pool?

BTW- I knew I would end up getting something in my local pool store that I just couldn't live without. Well, they had a Uniden cordless phone that is submersible and waterproof. It also floats. Needless to say, I now own one...How did I survive without one? LOL. I know women get the bad wrap for being compulsive shoppers, but I admit, I am in that category as well. I'm not allowed to go to Bass Pro Shops alone with my buddies again.

One other thing, the manager at Leslie's didn't know what DPD powder was. He had some rapid dissolve tablets but said they didn't have powder. I told him it was on their website for sale. I opened the chlorine extreme high and low kit and voila, there it was. I had to buy the whole kit to get the 10 gms of powder. He asked if I was running a commercial pool. I told him no, residential. He then advised me that my chlorine should never get that high and the normal kit was what I needed. I told him I am shocking to about 15 PPM so I needed it. He asked what I used and I told him bleach...the phrase deer in headlights applies here. Then the bleach is bad speech came. I told him I am fine with it and my pool looks fabulous. Long story short, come on Fed-Ex, USPS, or UPS, and get my new kit here so I can avoid this place!

[duraleigh]

VOL,

I can see it now. Adult beverages, an inadvertant tumble into that beautiful pool, and never losing a syllable because of the new phone!!

I see no reason to increase the CYA. It has no affect on the organics you're fighting.....and may actually make your Cl a little less effective.

Keep pouring the Clorox in there!

[VOLDADDY]

LOL! I knew other men would see why I had to have this phone...

[CarlD]

Ben always warns folks to be circumspect around pool stores. If you say "Liquid Chlorine" they don't blink, but go into a hissy fit and have a cow if you say bleach.

But that's nothing--if they tell you to use the "slug" method to lower total alkalinity and you tell them the truth that it doesn't work and it damages the liner, they go BALLISTIC!

[VOLDADDY]

11 PM reading 5.5 PPM. I added 4 jugs of bleach, which should get me to about 15.5 PPM overnight. I expected a drop today due to 90+ heat and a heavy swimmer load. I'll check again tomorrow AM and see what I lose overnight.

[VOLDADDY]

At 12:20 AM I am still up so I decided to test again. The last time I tested an hour after I poured bleach in a jug raised my FC 2.5 PPM. My FC was at 5.5, and I added 4 jugs, assuming I would be around 15.5. However, I was only at 13.5, so I am pouring a jug through my skimmer to get around 15.5-16 PPM. The other test I did was with generic bleach when I got a rise of 2.5 PPM, and now I am using Clorox. They are both 6%.

[VOLDADDY]

At 9 AM I had 14 PPM FC, so I lost 2-2.5 PPM from midnight to 9. I added a jug of bleach through the skimmer since it will be 92 today and we will have a heavy swimmer load. I am going to have to make another bleach run today.

[mbar]

You seem to be making progress! Best of luck.