For those of you using Bleach...

[sailork]

I just bought the house in March, (1st pool) and I'm still improving my routine but it looks like it will be 64oz of 6% per day or more and about a 1.5ppm loss per day. (I have a pretty high CYA at about 50 and am maintaining the chlorine as low as possible at 3ppm.)

I live in South Houston so I'm way south compared to 90% of you. We've been getting a great deal of rain recently as well so I've had some mustard algae. (yeah yeah, more bleach is the answer but how much?)

Maybe it's different since I'm so far south but I'd LOVE to know -when- people are adding their chlorine. I totally agree with Ben that adding it in the evening should let the chlorine get it's job done overnight before the sun starts to destroy it in the morning. It would be nice to have a chart of people's responses to look for trends in chlorine consumption.

Oh and, Thanks to everybody! I think I have almost as much fun running the pool as swimming in it!

[jereece]

19,000 gal AG pool, North Carolina, ~70% sun, light bather load, just a few leaves after a storm and a few bugs here and there, CYA 30, and 2-3ppm chlorine loss per day.