Help...(don't laugh) 12'x30" Intex Pool....first timer!

[CarlD]

I'm at work so i don't have the time to answer as I want to. Your questions are good questions, not dumb ones, and I appologize for short changing you.

Search the forum for the new way to add CYA. It's hilarious and WILL work extremely well (yes, lady's hose).

Bleach means bleach. Liquid Chorine in a jug, but sold in your supermarket as bleach. Plain, generic, unscented laundry bleach. Ultra is OK. Plain / Regular is 5.25% chlorine, Ultra is 6% Chlorine. Pool store "Liquid Chlorine" is usually 6% in gallons jugs so it's EXACTLY the same as ultra bleach. Sometimes it's 10% or 12.5% which is, of course, twice as strong, but very unstable an breaks down rapidly if you don't use up.

Granules (powder) is either di-chlor powder or cal-hypo powder. Sometimes tri-chlor powder. These are types, not brands. Go to the top of the pool testing forum and the chlorine forum and read the stickied threads there--they may help.

Wish I had time for more....

Carl

[kittyprrrs]

Carl D...

Many thanks...no need to apologize..I am grateful for any input and more information!

Have a great day at work....

[CarlD]

Not much chance of THAT but thanks!

Here's the thread you want: No joke! (but it's funny!)

http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthread.php?t=3254

[kittyprrrs]

omg! i saw that...i finally puched in "Intex" and laughed my butt off! I don't know but it looked a bit obscene and yet...hilariously funny.....

I now see what you all are talking about...this CYA dissolving issue. Now...I just got off the phone with Intex...they claim the 12R pump I just upgraded to can handle being used as a vaccum. "All you will need to do is hook it up to your skimmer". Eerrrr....anyone have suggestions for me on how to do this? I am trying not to BANKRUPT my poor husband as we are starting a new company and he just purchased a brand new 2006 Allison/Duramax GMC Dually with EXTRA CAB....can we all say OUCH to approx. 50K in a truck...>OUCH!

I work from home so, I am always busy one way or another....and I have to disperse my time! Oh...and I have PLENTY of distractions!

Thank goodness billing can wait! Hahahaha!

Thanks for the link.....