To Baquacil or not to Baquacil...that is the question.

[radialaced]

Well I just discovered this site yesterday.

I'm on my 3rd year with Bac and my water is milky and smelly...yuk!

I've been running my filter 24/7 for two months, (sometimes low speed and sometimes full speed). But I can't get rid of the milkyness or the smell.

I"m using the white sand instead of the yellow sand in my filter. I even added a cartridge filter after my sand filter. My chemicals test good. Basically THERE IS NO REASON FOR MY CRAPPY WATER!

So I'm draining it....to the bottom. I have city water with good pressure so I can fill it in less than a day.

So, what do I do now? Obviously I'm going to dump my white sand and replace it with new white sand since it is three years old. But do I restart my pool with the dreaded Bac so I can finish the season and my stockpile of Bac chemicals or convert to Chlorine now?

BTW, one more very, very important note. My daughter is having her 13th birthday party this Saturday haviing the pool clean and operational is my number one priority.

Thanks everyone
Rick

[prh129]

If you look around the forum you will see a whole lot of happy people using chlorine and very few happy people using Baquacil. I have not used Baquacil so I can't tell you if it's good or bad but you have been using Baquacil and obviously you have not been happy. I am extremely confident that if you start up with chlorine your pool will be ready to go by Saturday and you will be a happy camper from now on.

Besides, whatever savings you might get from using up your old chemicals would be lost by the additional chlorine you would have to buy to convert later on. You could always try to sell the old chemicals on ebay.

Make sure you get a drops based test kit and if you have any problems on startup, post your test numbers and someone will help you out right away.

Good luck!

Peter

[mariner09]

I moved into a my house a few months ago and found they had a bac pool. I decided to stay with it and haven't had any issues, other than cleaning the filter cartridges every couple of days to maintain good pressure.

I could see a bad spell costing a lot to fix as that's what usually happens with all the horror stories I've seen here.

[tundraSQ]

Heres my advice....take a pencil and paper and add up all the people you can find here who switched from chlorine to Baquacil....and then add up all the people who switched from baquacil to chlorine.....and which ever list is higher thats what i would go with.

Hint....i would not think you would find ANYONE switching from chlorine to Baquacil.

[pool newby]

My advice is to sell the Baquacil on ebay, somebody will scarf it up , and start the new water on BBB, or chlorine.

[dkdog68]

Hey Rick, i am by no means a master of Baq or chlorine. but one thing i have learned is with Baq, you should change you filter's sand every year. that even came straight from the pool store people too. i switched over to chlorine this year, and from day one haven't had any kind of problems. had all sorts of problems with the baq. and have saved a ton more money on chemicals.