help!! I need a reply quick

[Watermom]

Carl is right that is it usually best to wait a bit to add more than one thing. With that said, I have to confess, I add bleach and Borax and baking soda all at the same time and have never had a bit of trouble.

Ok, Carl - go ahead, scold me!

[CarlD]

Carl is right that is it usually best to wait a bit to add more than one thing. With that said, I have to confess, I add bleach and Borax and baking soda all at the same time and have never had a bit of trouble.

Ok, Carl - go ahead, scold me!

Bad, Bad Watermom! Such an example you are setting for the "children!"

'Mom knows that some chems don't usually interact and can be OK to add at the same time, but others don't play so nicely together. It's generally a bad habit to add different things at the same time.

[gaineycruzin]

Thanks guys!!! One more question and I think that I'm starting to understand all this stuff.

How do I maintain my chlorine level? My pool holds 5,000 gallons. I know that I need to keep testing but how high will 1 cup of bleach raise my level and so on?

[duraleigh]

search on the forum for "bleachcalc", download it and put it on your desktop. You'll use it all summer.

[CarlD]

Thanks guys!!! One more question and I think that I'm starting to understand all this stuff.

How do I maintain my chlorine level? My pool holds 5,000 gallons. I know that I need to keep testing but how high will 1 cup of bleach raise my level and so on?

1 gallon of regular (5.25%) bleach adds 5.25ppm to 10,000 gallons

1 gallon of Ultra (6%) bleach adds 6ppm to 10,000 gallons.

Each gallon will add double that to your pool. A cup is 1/16 of a gallon.

So one cup will add 1/16 of 10.5ppm using regular bleach and 1/16 of 12ppm using Ultra.