Ordered My Pool

[dcombs44]

I hope so!

Believe it or not, they actually had the pool in stock, so I took it home that day.

I'm just waiting now for a guy to come clear the sod and deliver our sand (masonry). We had a guy offer to clear the sod, deliver the sand, hall the sod away, and spread the sand for a couple hundred dollars, so we took the deal since it was almost that much for us to rent a bobcat.

So, the pool is waiting patiently in the garage. We've had all the utilities flagged, so we're set to dig.

I was reading the ingredients on the bags of shock and it appears that they have some descaling agents and clarifiers in them as well as the cal-hypo. I was going to use these up, but should I avoid these since they have the added "benefits"?

My stabilizer is 100% cyanuric acid, so I'm safe there. The Trichlor tabs should be ok to use as well until CYA is where it needs to be.

Thanks again for your help guys.

[Watermom]

Personally, I wouldn't use the shock with the extra stuff in it. Just my $.02. It is OK to use the trichlor as long, as you noted, that you monitor your CYA level. Also, remember that trichlor is very acidic and will drop your pH level a lot so you'll have to monitor that closely as well. What is your prediction for when the pool will be up and running? I hope not too far away so you'll get lots of time to use it this summer.