Pictures of Baquacil conversion

[VOLDADDY]

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The first 2 pictures are when I first added bleach and the pool looked like pea soup. I slept on the couch that night. The next 2 pictures are the next day, a lot clearer but still a little cloudy. The next 2 are 4 days into the conversion, crystal clear water, amazing. The last picture is of something I never knew I had, the bottom drain! This is what to expect if you decide to switch from Baquacil. Good Luck!

[mwsmith2]

Wooo. Baq conversion pics always make me shudder...but the payoff is great at the end!

Michael

[aylad]

Thanks for re-posting these--it'll take some of the shock away for others going through it, I hope!

Janet

[gwrace1]

We were lucky in that we found this forum before we purchased our 26K gallon AG pool. We also checked with other neighbors who had pools to find out what they were using and what they liked and disliked about their configuration.

We discovered pretty quickly from this forum and two of our neighbors that Baquacil was not the way to go. One neighbor is accumlutaing a very large sand pile. He discards the filter media from his sand filter every year because of the gunked up sand. The cost of the additional and frequent additives is only a benefit to the local pool stores that push this stuff.

We elected to keep it simple with an SWG and Pool Rover. We are very happy with our decision.