Grumpy AG Pool owner wants to share his misery.

[PoolDoc]

Almost everything posted here is based on "real life experience". I try to weed out the other stuff.

Regarding your problem: "less expensive", probably. Cheap: not so much -- cleaning swamps is neither cheap nor easy. If your pool is over 10,000 gallons, your chemical costs will probably be over $100, even using bleach, borax and muriatic acid.

If you want to proceed, the first thing to do is physically remove -- by skimming, leaf bagging, vacuuming, and filtering -- everything you can. Removing algae clumps and piles with chlorine uses a LOT of chlorine. Better to filter and vacuum.

With an AG pool, you can vacuum with a siphon, to remove the piles. With a IG pool and sand filter, you can usually vacuum to "waste".

Repost after you get that done.

Ben

[CarlD]

It's hard to find any chlorine source that's cheaper than 5 gallon carboys of 12.5% Liquid Chlorine. It's equal to 10 1/2 gallons of 6% Bleach. Carboys run $17, so it's like paying $1.65/gallon of Ultra Bleach. Doesn't get much cheaper than that for chlorine unless it's being given to you.

Carl