OK, I just happened along this website, now after $200.00 with the pool store and several stories about how I need to get rid of my baquacil so that I can convert to Chlorine.

I'm one frustrated person. This is my first full year with baquacil, we had it for a month last year, closed up the pool and it has not been clear since after spending hundreds of dollars on algecide, shock etc. For the conversion I was told first that I needed to drain my pool and refill, I called a few places and another place told me that I could use a Chlorine Free Shock to eat up the baquacil. We have now put in 25 lbs ($60.00) of shock over this week and after all this I was told yesterday that my baquacil level was 5ppm, went back today and they told me it was 10ppm, how can that be? They then informed that I needed to drain half my water, which is what the first pool store told me in the first place. Sigh!! So that would be a $75.00 water bill on top of the chemicals that I apparently didn't need.

I now have tons of shock, chlorine, tabs, stabilizer, you name it, so my question is I'm not sure I'm ready for the BBB method yet, my husband was not thrilled with the idea, but I'd like to take back all my unused stuff and just buy chlorine at Walmart, get a test kit and do this with the help of this group. Is it possible to do this with the Walmart Chlorine Bags?? Is my baquacil low enough to start conversion? Do I put stabilizer in first or wait until the conversion is over.

I am grateful for any help that can be offered. I'm going to get a test kit tonight and distilled water. Just need to figure out how much chlorine to put in to get the 15ppm and if I can use the Walmart brand.