Bleach in a church pool??

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Sumo, I salute your willingness to help out the church by taking over the pool! Please know that you'll always find people here to help you with any questions you may have.

If by using bleach, you mean use liquid chlorine - many,many commercial/ public pools use liquid chlorine as their primary sanitizer. On www.poolsolutions.com Ben speaks of it in Tip # 72. When I worked in Va. our company provided Lifeguard and caretaking service to 40+ commercial pools and all used sodium hypochlorite (liquid chlorine) with a peristalic feed pump. The pumps can be a real pain to get the feed 'just right', this thread has discussion on them http://www.poolforum.com/pf2/showthread.php?t=1549, which might be worth a read. The trouble, as I think you know, with using cal-hypo is the increased calcium level (some is good, but lots is bad) and the tri-chlor sends the cya through the roof and drops the pH.

When I worked for the co. in Va., we had bi-weekly deliveries of liquid chlorine to each pool (they all had 2 55gal plastic drums), though you can also look into the 5 gal 'carbouys'. I'd imagine that buying and transporting 'umteen' cases of bleach from Wal-mart would quickly loose it's thrill .

Pooldoc is probably your best resource for this question, but he's apparently having some trouble in his personal life (see the first topic here "Notes ..."), so I'm not sure that he's available to help right now (we can all pray that everything works out well for him!!)

As a last notew, Poconos uses all 3 types of chlorine durring a season, use the cal-hypo to get the CH where you want it and the pucks to raise the cya to where you want it and then switch to bleach for maintaining the cl, then just use the other types to 'tweek' the levels after heavy backwashing or refilling.

I hope that this is 'somewhat' helpful - if I can be of further help, all you have to do is ask! God Bless and good luck!

[EDIT] Go figure, no answers when I started my response, but 2 when I post (man I gotta get better at typing )