Personally...I can't understand how anyone could make a bad remark about using bleach when treating your pool. It IS pool chlorine at half concentration.

I've even run across people who are sold on liquid (pool) chlorine who swear bleach will ruin your linear and solar cover. ugh!

As for your TA. Follow the advice written in the stickies...and if your unsure of yourself...start your a current thread. I followed the advice, in the stickie threads, for lowering my TA and once I got my ph low enough...it started working like a charm. Just stick with it...be consistent and persistant...and have patience.

happy swimmin',
dan