How do I convert from chlorine tablets to bleach?

[cleancloths]

Why convert? Why not use both!

I have found that using both is the easiest way to maintain the pool. Trichlor adss chlorine, CYA and lowers the pH. Bleach adds chlorine, and raises the pH. If you use both you tend not to have any need to adjust pH as they tend to balance each other out. If pH starts dropping use more bleach, if pH starts going up use more trichlor.

As for the CYA I find it also stays fairly constant using this method as you loose CYA over time from things like backwashing, splashing, etc... and also gain CYA-free water from rain dillution.

Don't mix trichlor and bleach together. I use trichlor in a feeder on the pump discharge and then manual add bleach as needed into the deep end of the pool.

[aquarium]

Why convert? Why not use both!

I have found that using both is the easiest way to maintain the pool. Trichlor adss chlorine, CYA and lowers the pH. Bleach adds chlorine, and raises the pH. If you use both you tend not to have any need to adjust pH as they tend to balance each other out. If pH starts dropping use more bleach, if pH starts going up use more trichlor.

This makes a lot of sense. I just drained and refilled our pool and used bleach to get the chlorine up right away, and now using the tablets in the chlorinator for maintenance level. I plan on using the bleach for fast needs, like after a pool party and a backwash, and the chlorinator, well, to be lazy the other time.

[Watermom]

Just keep an eye on your cya level. Those tabs are convenient, but they are the very thing that gets people in trouble with too high of a cya reading before you know it.