Quote Originally Posted by Jaybird70
Thanks CarlD,

If I go the bleach route am I stuck using bleach from here on out or can I start using the store bought chlorine. Not sure why my hubby is opposed to pouring bleach in the pool but he is.

I ask this because I thought I read on one of the chlorine packages that you had to be careful mixing different chlorines or something. That is it will cause dangerous gases to come off the pool.

Maybe I'm confusing it with something else or possibly another chemical, I'll have to reread the package when I get home.
In the water, chlorine is chlorine. Besides, liquid chlorine and bleach are the same thing--some of the pool store stuff is 12.5%, but a lot of them sell 6%--and that is IDENTICAL to Ultra bleach. 6% sodium hypchlorite solution--and the other 94% is salt-water.

You don't pour liquid chlorine/bleach on pucks or powders, and you don't mix pucks and powders. All very dangerous. Once they are dissolved in the water they are fine together.

So use bleach, use liquid chlorine--it's all the same. I just suggest the carboys because of the CONVENIENCE of them. Show hubby a bottle of Liquid Chlorine 6% and a bottle of Ultra bleach 6% so he can see they are the same.