Newbie to pools

[PoolDoc]

Yeah, that's a good price for bleach. I think it's cheaper in Florida, than in most other parts of the country.

A couple of cautions:

1. Bleach is corrosive, but commercial bleach (above 10%) is very, very corrosive. Make sure you do not get ANY on what ever you carry the bleach in. You can lose a truck bed to a drop of bleach here, and a drop there.

2. Bleach doesn't store well in warm weather. At 90 degrees (when the BLEACH is 90), it can lose a LOT of its strength in just a week. If the bleach has a little iron in it (it often does), you can turn 12% bleach into 6% bleach very quickly.

3. For the same reason, try to buy bleach within a few days (1 - 2) of your supplier's delivery and then -- ideally -- add it to the pool immediately.

4. If you need to store bleach, it will last much, much longer in a air conditioned room than it will in a hot garage or pump room. It doesn't fume (well, it gives off oxygen, when it deteriorates), so there's no odor and no chlorine gases. It's just the drips that are a problem.

[mthandt]

I've noticed that a lot of pool trucks have the beds completely rusting out on them. So it looks like I am gonna have to buy 2 1/2 gallons at a time and store half of it for a week.

But just thought of something. If I'm keeping the pool at about 3-5 ppm with the TC won't I only have to raise the chlorine about 10-12 ppm using liquid chlorine? So then I would only need a little more then a gallon of the of the 11.5% chlorine weekly? You think it would be ok to assume that I can use a little over a gallon for the first week and then just the rest of the chlorine the second week because it has degraded. I mean i would test it afterwards but I'm thinking it should be close, might not be enough though.

[PoolDoc]

Rusted out truck beds? Yeah, that's bleach.

Your plan sounds reasonable. How well it will work depends . . . on how pure the bleach is (low metals bleach lasts longer); on how cool your storage area is, and so on. But, it's a good place to start, so long as you use a K2006 to check how well it's working.

Keep in mind that -- even in Florida -- you can store bleach for a while, now. In July? Not so much, unless you keep the bleach in an AC'd place.