Well go figure.....while my daughter has swam in the pool a few times since the conversion was over, the first major party was my 5th grade nephew's birthday party. About 20 kids around 11 years old or so in the pool at any given time......or as we called them "un-desirables".

It was dang nice however to be able to shock the snot out of the pool afterwards and only be out $9 for three jugs of bleach. Started with an FC of 7 just before they showed up, was down to a 3 by the time they were done. Darn kids!! Stay out if my clean pool!!

Still looking good?

About 7 jugs of bleach.....that's it since we finished the swap. I'm going to hate using chlorine next year. I always used "working on the pool" as an excuse to get out of work around the house. Not going to be able to do that next year. We had a TON of rain this last week and it put leaves, leaves, and more leaves into the pool. Cleaned those out and never once had the FC drop below 3.

ps...it's alot clearer than the photo shows. You can pass my "quarter test" where you toss a quarter into the deep end and tell if it's heads or tails with ease.

Cool!

Pulled out some test strips we had left over....just for ships and giggles. Guess what. Still have a reading. Tested with the TF-100 and have readings I'll live with nooooo problem.

FC 4
CC 0
PH 7.6
TA 120
CH 170
CYA 35

Added 4 cups of 10% chlorine......tossed in the vacuum..... and laughed again at the fact we used to use that garbage! Opening this year cost a total of $48 from a green mess to a sparkling blue pool. Thanks once again to everybody who has helped with this swap. It's been a HUGE help keeping the pool running without being there for several hours every day messing with stuff.

Hahaha. Thats great.

It will be time to open mine in a week or two.

Rick

Leebo, do you know how accurate strips are for baqua? They might be as bad for baqua as they tend to be for FC, cya, etc.? Hard for me to believe you still have baqua remnants after the conversion and running the rest of last season on chlorine. Are you getting any measurable CC?

Just the opposite linen....I've read 0 CC's after the swap the entire time. I pulled the strips out for a project I'm working on and got a few giggles when I saw any reading. There's 0% chance ANY baqua is left....yet as you stated these awesome strips are still reading it. Not worrying at all about baqua....just laughing how amazing these strips are.

I shouldn't post that late at night, since my brain doesn't work well enough even when I am wide awake...I get the joke now

These strips are comical. I just finished my conversion and happened to find a container of these and I too decided to see what they would read. First strip, no Baqua detected. Great! Lets try a second strip, this one (test in a different location) said low Baqua. Who knows how long these strips have been sitting but I can't see these as being accurate.

I still have a bottle of strips too ... I guess I'll have to do some comparative testing just for ha-ha's.

One store salesman told me it would be more economical to use strips ... I think I'll conduct a "litmus test" tonight.

More economical for who?? You or them??