Clear, but no chlorine???

[FormerBromineUser]

Filters cartridges? You didn't clean them because they were new but maybe now?

[CarlD]

Since your FC went, during the day, only from 32 to 29, I'm not seeing the point in adding still more bleach to get the CC down, which has dropped. You just need a sunny day or 2, I think.

[mary jo]

CarlD- I envy your optimism!
I actually had a question about the cartridges. So far I have been adding bleach to my pool by pouring it around the perimeter (slowly). I've never added any chemicals to the skimmers -was told not to by pool installers- I think because of the inline chlorinator being full of tricolor pucks. But the chlorinator has been emptied and cleaned out- as has the Nature2 vessel. (I just wiped both down again and they are clean. Water also flows through the empty vessel but I turned the chlorinator off so it gets just a trickle).

Does adding chemicals directly to the skimmer offer any benefits (i.e. getting full strength CL to the filters)? btw: filter pressure started at 10 and is only 11 1/2 now and very strong pressure.

[CarlD]

Personally, my favorite way to add it is to the return stream. The ONLY reason I don't like adding it through the skimmer is that sometimes the chlorine splashes onto the deck material and discolors it.