Baquacil usage?

[SLS]

I also used Baq for three years after I bought a house with a pool. I had never had a pool so I called the local pool store (only one in town) to help get mine up and running. They convinced me Baq was the way to go, much easier to maintain, easier on the eyes, etc. The first year went ok. The second year the water mold started and most of the year I was going crazy trying to clear it up. By the way, the only help the pool store could give me was to sell me more of this more of that to put in the pool. The whole third year I never seen the bottom in the deep end and spent over 1200 in 4 months trying to fix it. I stop counting after 1200 because it was driving me crazy. I was seriously considering selling my house or filling the pool in because the pool store told me this was the easiest way to maintain the pool.
Three years ago I came across this site and read all the complaints about Baq and how to get rid of it. I can say the best thing I ever did was to switch to chlorine!!!!! I never worry about my pool being clear even after a rain. You hardly ever smell the chlorine when you use the methods on the this site. If you keep the PH in range you will never have red eyes. I also think Ben's kit is worth every cent. I now spend $3-$8 a week ( maybe more if I have to use pucks when I am gone) on maintaining a 32,0000 gallon pool. I now enjoy my pool instead of wanting to fill it in.
BTW, I have never spent another dime in that pool store and never will. They knew exactly what they were doing and I believe their store will go out of business someday because they pushed baq so much there.

[bcb1]

Yep, PHMB is the fancy name for Baquacil, aka Baquacrap. Pleeeeeease think carefully before you decide to use Baquacil. The sales pitch sounds so good..."gentle water"...."easy, once-a-week maintenance"...."no harsh chemicals"....it all sounds so great. But I can tell you, it's crap. The clearest our water ever got with Baquacil was "kinda, sorta clear". Usually it was cloudy in the deep end. And the money we spent. Good grief, hundreds of dollars just in the few months we used the stuff. Total scam.

We switched to Chlorine about mid-summer of the year that we built our pool. It was the best thing we ever did, and I kick myself for not starting out with chlorine in the first place. Our water is always crystal clear now, and I spend maybe 2-3 minutes a day on our pool -- no kidding.

Chlorine is CHEAP too. I use 6% ultra bleach from Walmart (it's chlorine only, no stabilizers or other gunk in it). I use perhaps 1 jug of chlorine per week, and I keep a tablet or two of Trichlor pucks in the floater. Throw in the Aquabot once a week to clean the pool for a few hours, and that's it. Very easy and simple.