You can pour the bleach into the skimmer basket with the pump running, as long as there are no tabs or other chemicals in there, or you can just pour it slowly into the return stream where the water comes back from the pool from the pump. Either way, be careful not to splash it on you or the liner, and wear old clothes, no matter how careful you think you're being!

You can use pH minus to bring down your pH--but you don't list a pH reading--how high is it? You can use the stabilizer from WalMart--look at the dosing instructions on the label for your size pool, and shoot for 40 ppm or so. Add it either in the skimmer, slowly, pump running, to dissolve in the filter, or add it via old sock suspended in front of a return. It dissolves very slowly, so don't bother to add more or test for it for at least 4-5 days. And if you put it in through the filter, don't clean your filter for that period of time, because you'll just wash it all out and have to start over.

In 6000 gallons of water, each 1/2 gallon of 6% bleach you add will raise your FC by 5 ppm, so you can use that as a reference to figure out how much you need to add. Is the water depth of your pool actually 48", or is that the total height of the pool wall?


Janet