had pool for a few years

[airraid1999]

thanks and its around 12,000 gallons also i am going to get a test kit , plz for give my typing as dont work on pc for living nor daily any how i found this site by serching best way to hold down steps, what is OTO? the clorine has been haed to get where it needs to be i dont know why as it may be due to rainfall ? we have had lots! i didnt have this much trouble the last 4 years together???? just wonder what i am doing wrong then when i came across this site and read about pool places and read the BBB method it goes aginst what the pool place says not to use bleach not to use baking soda and ect but as i ahve read you guys have been at this a long time so? any way thats my story will be asking more questions as i go using the BBB AS IT LOOKS AS IF IT WORKS FINE BY THE WAY THE STORE I USE NAME IS POOL SOLUTIONS???? THATS FUNNY THANKS AGAIN

[PoolDoc]

BY THE WAY THE STORE I USE NAME IS POOL SOLUTIONS???? THATS FUNNY

Not all that funny, to me.

When I started PoolSolutions.com (1996) there weren't any such stores that I could find. I couldn't afford to trademark it, so that's what I get.
It's especially ironic that a store using my name (unless they started before 1996) would be opposing the BBB method. Ugh.

OTO is a chemical (orthotolidine) that turns yellow in the presence of chlorine, and is used to make cheap and reliable testkits. You can get an OTO / phenol red kit at Walmart, usually.

Please do so.

Ben

[CarlD]

Baking soda costs $.80/lb. "Total Alkalinity Raiser" is between $3 and $5/lb Why do you think they want you to use that instead? (they are both sodium bicarbonate)
Washing soda costs $.80/lb. "pH Up!" and "Balance Pak 200" cost between $3 and $5/lb....and they are all Sodium Carbonate. Guess what they want you to buy?
Ultra Bleach and "Liquid Chlorine 6% are both Sodium hypochlorite solution. Yup. Same story.
Phosphate Removers, Algaecides, clarifiers, flocculants do little if anything (if you're lucky). Usually they cause more trouble.

The B-B-B method means you won't spend hundreds at the pool store. Naturally they want to prevent that.

Everything we know is wrong...yet time after time our methods works and predictably so. My wife says the only swimming pool she can go into and not get sick is ours. Of course, she would have equal confidence in the pools of any of our long-time followers of the B-B-B method.

Before I found PF over a decade ago, I bought the standard book: Taming the Pool Monster. It is, IMHO, pure junk. Industry nonsense.

Carl

[airraid1999]

i do believe that you was established first any how i ordered new test kit will have more questions about BBB thanks.

[airraid1999]

funny not ha ha funny as in strange please dint be offended as i trust you guys as you all have been doing this for years for what i can tell and thanks for any and all help !