New Pool, should I go with chlorine

[CarlD]

Bacquacil is only good for one thing:

SENDING YOUR POOL STORE OWNER'S KIDS TO COLLEGE!

It is a very expensive trap. Expensive to use, expensive to maintain, expensive to get out of. It doesn't work very well, either.

Chlorine is easy, cheap, available at EVERY grocery store, and gets a bad rap because people (and pool stores) don't know how it works and what is and isn't irritating. I keep VERY high chlorine levels, but my pool doesn't smell of chlorine, nor does our skin get irritated, or our eyes sore.

Why? Because I know that Free Chlorine doesn't do these things--Combined Chloramines do, and I know how to keep CCs out of my pool.

So will you if you stick around!

There's no secret formula, secret handshake, or tinfoil hat needed. It's all just simple, straightforward common sense.

[brent.roberts]

Fortunately for me the makers of Baquacil never got approval from the Dept of Health in Canada. (Maybe they couldn't) In any case the search for a source that would ship it to me eventually found me stumbling on this forum. After reading under the section dealing with Baquacil I am greatly relieved that I did not find a way to import it directly.

Happy, long term users are few and far between. It costs many times what chlorine costs when things are going well. However when things get screwed up, which seems to happen frequently, you cannot solve the problem with $ 25 or $50 worth of bleach. They will get you for hundreds and hundreds of dollars, and in many cases never get it cleared up.

Wha's the expression ... don't walk, run from this one.

[waterbear]

There's no secret formula, secret handshake, or tinfoil hat needed. It's all just simple, straightforward common sense.

Very true, those are only needed to keep a BAQ pool running! (especially the tinfoil hat!)

Seriously, go with chlorine.....you won't regret it!

[medvampire]

I was clueless a few weeks ago and listened to the pool store. Found this forum and the sister web site, studdied it, and asked a few questions. I now have a pool with water like liquid glass. The installer came out a few days ago to fix a light and comented on the water. If I listened to the pool store I would be spending $40 on oxy-shock and $30 on regular shock not counting trichlor tabs each month. I spent $17.84 last month on chems. I spend 20 minutes a day and about a hour on the week ends keeping it up. The BBB system should be called the symplisity system is it so easy to keep up. When you get your pool up come on back and let the pors here who really know their stuff get you started. Dont let the pool store sell you a stuff you dont need.
Steve