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Pool Forum?
Dr. Spa™ Ret.:
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Is that the place where the moderator insists on only using laundry bleach and won't allow discussions about anything else? :-?
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And that got me banned from the site *LOL*..
GoBlue:
I saw the bleach thread. So how does bleach compare to the different chlorine delivery sytems and forms?
Vinny:
Bleach is readily available; it is about 1/2 the potency of liquid pool chlorine but is easily destroyed by heat and sunlight.
There apparently is a bleach (or liquid pool chlorine) dispenser that you attach to your filter pump and it delivers chlorine that way.
Why Bleach? Well for a lot of people who go into pool stores - chlorine is expensive and some people will get ripped off. Adding bleach TO A POOL (we are not talking spa here for anyone reading this who thinks we may) adds nothing in the way of CYA, alkalinity or calcium. It will raise you PH and needs to be combatted with PH down.
I personally use bleach for pool openings - it works great. I also monitor all my pool levels and use a combination of bleach, trichlor and cal hypo to maintain the water in a balanced condition. I have not found chlorine to be too expensive but I buy my pool chlorine from Leslies pool supplies and get a 50 lb cal hypo pail for about $70 and that will last me about a year and 1/2. Trichlor is great for when I go on vacation (I use a pentair 320 auto feeder for trichlor pucks) or need to boost the CYA in the pool and when the levels are up in CYA and calcium - I go to bleach. I tend to not use bleach because it has a short shelf life and I don't want to go to the store and buy it 3x a week (I am over stating this to make a point).
I say try it but remember there are all the water's parameters that you need to worry about. I think if I had a choice and had a built in pool I just may go for the salt water generator as it seems that it is fairly consistent and is super easy to use once the proper amount of salt is in the pool.
BTW, I use borax to raise the PH in my pool. It sounds like it's nuts but honestly the stuff that I learned there does work. I don't follow it to the "T" as I don't think using bleach is as inexpensive (or not much difference) as using the other forms of chlorine.
I hope this helps.
tony:
In my pool I use a combination of liquid chlorine (double strength bleach) and trichlor. I do this to keep CYA levels in check.
A couple of the poolforum folks have infiltrated the poolspaforum. You can get a healthy dose of bleach talk there.
GoBlue:
All: Thanks again for all the info. In the last 15 yrs, I have never tested the CYA in the pool. I always heard that backwashing and partial fall draining would keep stabilizer where it needs to be.
Amazing what you can learn here.
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