This. If I have to look like Darth Vader when taking care of my pool, I will go back to traditional methods of pool care...
Adding Acid - DON'T DO WHAT I DID! - Now I Am Off to the Doctor
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This. If I have to look like Darth Vader when taking care of my pool, I will go back to traditional methods of pool care...
Safety glasses will prevent splashing of acid into the eye but won't prevent fumes. If one didn't have a mask, then one could smell the fumes and pull away, but of course it would be better to be able to pour in a way that didn't fume and that means pouring directly into the pool and not into a bucket first.
Good advice here. Acid doesn't frighten me in the least. I have added it to my pool for nine years with never a close call. I am comfortable adding it with my good clothes on.
I HANDLE IT AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE!!. I remove the cap and then, not standing over it and not downwind, I simply lower the jug into the water and tip it. The splashless stream of acid goes directly in front of a return. The distance from the bottle to the water level is about an inch, depending on the fullness of the jug.
If ANYTHING were to cause a spill, I am about 1/2 a second away from submersing myself in the pool where any contact with the acid would be harmlessly diluted.
I do not intend to criticize any one else's method of handling it but I am incredibly comfortable doing what I do and have thought it through very carefully. I have an advantage with my large pool in that an overshoot or undershoot with pouring directly from the jug means almost no thin. In a small pool, you may have to be more precise but I still would not remove it from it's original container
I do about the exact same thing as Dave, except I measure into a measuring cup (kinda hard to appoximate 8 oz). I use the full strength acid, 31.45%.
I bring my acid bucket to the poolside, and only then do I take the acid jug and measuring cup out. Nobody comes near me when I handle it, and all of my movements are careful and deliberate. For PPE I wear safety glasses. Once I measure the acid dose, the jug is capped and placed into the bucket immediately. Once I pour the acid and rinse the cup, it goes into the bucket and the lid replaced.
I recognize that this stuff is dangerous, and I handle it very carefully. Storing it safely is just as important too. I keep only one gallon at a time, and it lives inside a 5 gallon bucket with a lid, which functions as secondary fume containment and overpack in case of leaks. I also put hazmat placards on my bucket that look like my avatar, except it says 1789 (hydrochloric acid) instead of 1791 (sodium hypochlorite). That may be a little much but it's nice to know that what is inside is hazardous, no matter who moves the bucket.
Stay safe everyone.
I bring my acid bucket to the poolside, and only then do I take the acid jug and measuring cup out. Nobody comes near me when I handle it, and all of my movements are careful and deliberate. For PPE I wear safety glasses. Once I measure the acid dose, the jug is capped and placed into the bucket immediately. Once I pour the acid and rinse the cup, it goes into the bucket and the lid replaced.
I recognize that this stuff is dangerous, and I handle it very carefully. Storing it safely is just as important too. I keep only one gallon at a time, and it lives inside a 5 gallon bucket with a lid, which functions as secondary fume containment and overpack in case of leaks. I also put hazmat placards on my bucket that look like my avatar, except it says 1789 (hydrochloric acid) instead of 1791 (sodium hypochlorite). That may be a little much but it's nice to know that what is inside is hazardous, no matter who moves the bucket.
Stay safe everyone.