Quote Originally Posted by poolotter View Post
The CYA/stabilizer threw us because it's not a B in the BBB. We'll look for product today.
That's my least favorite thing about the "BBB" name. It's easy to remember (good!), and it reflects my original intent to use basic products (good!), but it tends to mislead people in to thinking that the method really is about "bleach, borax, and baking soda", when in fact those just happened to be the products that were available in 1997 when I wrote the first version of the pool chemicals at the grocery store page. (We DO often recommend both bleach and borax, for various reasons. Baking soda? Not so much -- it's not needed all that often.)

We've ALWAYS recommended stabilizer for chlorinated pools, whether you get it by adding it directly, or get it by using dichlor or trichlor. Actually using dichlor to chlorinate is the easiest way, since you get 9 ppm of CYA (cyanuric acid) for every 10 ppm of chlorine. If you have access to Sams Club, they usually have 24# boxes of bagged undiluted dichlor for a VERY good price.