New User with new liner

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A lot of pool stores and pool chemical companies are selling blended dichlor with unwanted ingredients in them. Sam's Club just happens to have one we know that is unblended. By the way, what are the ingredients and percentages of the Aqua-Chem stuff?

The start up recipe has steps to use bleach and borax for people who need a few days to get some good dichlor. But, once you have some good unblended dichlor, start right in with the directions and doses for using it.

You do have to test daily at first. A freshly filled pool has no CYA (cyanuric acid, also called stabilizer) in it. CYA is kind of like sunscreen for your chlorine. Outdoor pools with none or not enough will quickly lose all of their chlorine to the sun. The reason we tell people to use dichlor for the first few weeks is because it adds CYA and chlorine at the same time. It actually adds 9ppm of CYA for every 10ppm of chlorine that is added. So, after using dichlor for awhile, you build up enough CYA in the water so that it may be that you can go a day or so between testing. But, I will caution you that pools that are not tested regularly are the ones that get in trouble. I don't know about you but I'd rather spend 2-5 minutes per day keeping my pool clear than deal with days and days and lots of $$ cleaning up an algae bloom. (By the way, once your CYA builds up to around 50 or so, you want to quit using dichlor and begin just using bleach for your chlorine so that your CYA doesn't get too high. Another guide that would be useful for you to read explains the relationship between CYA and chlorine:> http://pool9.net/cl-cya/

Regarding "we were told by the pool supply company........... Stick around the forum for awhile. You'll soon hear a lot of things that pool stores tell people that are just flat out wrong. I've been a part of this forum for years. I told Ben (PoolDoc) just the other day that we should have been keeping lists of all the ridiculous advice that people have been given. We could have written a book!

Hope this helps. If you have more questions, we'll be here!