Bleach is no longer cost-effective???

[CarlD]

Great price! I pay nearly $20 for 5 gallons of 12%.

You can test the strength yourself. You just need to dilute the LC 10,000 times and measure it with a FAS-DPD measure just like your pool.

10,000 TIMES??????

Yeah. You add one CC (Milliliter) of LC to 10 liters of tap water--that's 5 soda-bottles full. You can usually get a marked eyedropper that has an ML marking on it--and 10 liters easily fits in a five gallon bucket.

You know, I oughta do a sticky post on testing liquid chlorine strength.

Oh, yeah--test the chlorine content of your tap water BEFORE you add the LC---you may well get a reading of 1-3ppm of FC.

[dmarsh70]

I actually did test my tap water - more so to get "used" to taking measures - after 2 or 3 days I feel like an old hand

My tap was about 1.5 FC

[AnnaK]

Another way to dilute chlorine for testing is using a syringe (without the needle). You need one which measures 10 ml (10 cc).

Put 10 ml chlorine into 1 liter of water, mix well. Put 10 ml of the mix into 1 liter of water, mix and then test that.