HTH Non-stabilized chlorine tablets

[aylad]

If you're going to be gone for a few days, you can shock with bleach before you leave and when you get back, and all will probably be well. The only solution that I know of for time periods of a week or more is to get someone to come bleach it for you.

Janet

[cwstnsko]

I don't know how long you could make it last for, but I remember a story about a guy maintaining a semi commercial pool that compensated for a broken feeder by uncapping jugs of chlorine and droppping them into the deep end. The chlorine would gradually be released into the water. This probably only works well with continuous circualtion, otherwise chlorine might collect in places and do damage. It seems like the smaller the hole you made in the jug, the longer it'd take to release all the chlorine.

[jereece]

I simply punch one small hole on top and one to two small holes on the bottom of about 7 or 8 bleach bottles and string them across my pool. The bleach slowly leaches out adding chlorine to the pool. Last vacation I came home and have 2ppm free chlorine which is fine with my 30 CYA. Here's a couple pictures.

http://www.jreece.com/bleach1.jpg
http://www.jreece.com/bleach2.jpg

[KirstenHW]

Cool, jereece. It didn't bleach out your liner? We jsut replaced ours 2 years ago, so I am still antsy about it! Our first liner lasted from 1982 (install) to 2004.