Quote Originally Posted by Cammie895
Thanks. I'm trying to find directions to that kit online but I'm not having much luck. I bought that kit and all of the bottles are full, and I lost the sheet that tells me how many drops of each thing I need to test it. I guess I'll have to break down and buy a new kit.

As far as going back to basics, I only use chlorine, baking soda, and borax for maintenence, and then an algaecide when it turns colors on me. I've tried to use just extra chlorine to kill the algae but it doesn't work. My water bill was $70.00 last month and $225.00 this month. If I have to drain it again it's going to be so I can roll it to the road, lol.

you say that you are using the basics...but yet in your first post you say this:

tend to this pool daily and follow all of the instructions that came with the pool. I use Borax, baking soda, and walmart's 1" stabilized tablets and shock. I did try bleach when I first got it and I bleached the whole liner from bright blue to white...oops.


I would not use the tablets as your major souce of chlorine...and I would not use the "shock" from walmart either....just use clorox for both...and like car said...follow the "poolsolutions" way or the pool companyies way..but don't mix and match...I have a 25000 gallon pool and I spend about 24 bucks a month now...95% clorox 5% triclor when I see my PH climb. Go back to using the clorox...but know how much you are adding, and what your levels are and you will never harm your liner.

good luck..I know you can have a blue pool again (albeit with a white liner)