If you are having a burning sensation, bad taste, foaming, skin irritation, BAD throat irritation, then you are NOT having success with Bacquacil.

Something is very, VERY wrong with your water and I would strongly advise you not to swim in your pool until it is cleared up.

Your pH may be badly out of balance, or something is not being metabolized.

I just got chills thinking about you swimming in it.

Yeah, chlorine is easy. Once you have everything balanced, if you dump a gallon, more or less, depending on your pool, every other day.

When/if we go away, I find the EASIEST instructions I can give to anyone watching my pool is to dump in 1 gallon of bleach into the skimmer every other day. I come home to a perfect pool everytime, even after two weeks. How much easier can maintenance be than that?

(I DO tell them to turn on the hose if the water level is low, too. And I have an automatic overflow to keep it from getting too full.)