Help! Too much bleach during conversion!

[poolgal13]

I just started doing a chlorine conversion and somehow, when I used the bleach calculator I screwed up and ended putting double the amount of bleach at one time. Have I ruined my vinyl pool?

[waterbear]

how many gallons is your pool, how much bleach did you put in, and what strenth is the bleach? What ppm chlorine where you shooting for. If there is no stabilizer in the pool, which I assume there isn't since you have just started the conversion, a FC over 15 ppm could bleach your liner. However, the baq will eat up the chlorine pretty fast so I don't think you have much to worry about.

[duraleigh]

Almost surely you have not hurt your liner. (Thought I'd be positive 'cause there's nothing anyone can do, anyway)

Seriously, I'll bet you're fine.

I think it would be very instructive to many of us if you could post your Cl reading tomorrow AM. Please let us know

[poolgal13]

Thanks for the encouragement--I feel like an idiot for first converting to Baquacil (the Pool Life magazine made it sound so great) and then accidently typing in the wrong # for the calculation. Right now I'm draining out some water so I replace it with new. Probably should have done that first.

I will post my readings in the morning. Very scared right now!

[poolgal13]

Almost forgot--and no laughing, please--my pool is just a pop-up, 3000 gallon. I used the 6% bleach and put in 174 ounces, should have put in 102 ounces. It's not quite double, but who's counting at this point! The pool is a murky, greenish blue with shiny stuff floating on top. My husband is such a sweetie, he said if the pool is ruined we'll just get another one.

[waterbear]

be sure to get a bunch of the disposable filters for it. You will need them as the conversion goos them up!