Quote Originally Posted by cygnusecks
My bull***t alarm went off today in the pool store when I was buying some bleach. I asked a clerk if I should buy 1 or 2 of the jugs.. He said "well how big is your pool".. I told him.. he said "well usually a gallon of chlorine will 'treat' 10kgal of water.. but with your pucks you should only need to add a few quarts". I said "but I don't use pucks.." and so it begins.. he says "what? why not? If you don't use pucks your chlorine will disappear in a few hours".. to which I respond: "I don't want to build up stabilizer". He says "oh, you can't do that.. any existing stabilizer won't stabilize *this* chlorine," (points to bleach in jug). "this chlorine is liquid chlorine, so can't be stabilized. It's job is to get in there, do its thing, and get out. You need the stabilized pucks to maintain a certain level of cl on top of which you can add this shock when needed".

So, I'm no chemist, but I'm pretty sure that my CYA doesn't know the difference between the Cl in a puck vs. the Cl in a bottle of sodium hypo, right? My existing CYA will stabilize liquid chlorine, right? Is this guy just trying to sell me a bucket of pucks for $90+ ?
Yes, he is. And he probably honestly hasn't got a clue what he's talking about. You are logical and rational and you KNOW that when you smell manure that it's not strawberries and cream!--no matter WHAT anybody says.

Chico Marx had a great line in "Duck Soup":
"Well, Who you gonna believe-a? Me, or-a your own eyes?"

Chlorine is chlorine when it's in your water. Period. Keep that in mind and these guys will be powerless against you. Stabilizer(CYA) is stabilizer too, and once it's released into the water, it's there for all the chlorine, regardless of the source.

Trust your good sense! It's just kept you from being "Pool-Stored"!