Hurricane Gio said:
I know chlorine is chlorine, but with a SWG i get know clorox smell, green hair, bleaching of clothes or having that belch feeling in the eyes.
Even is a preface balanced pool with bleach, I can feel it in my eyes and what not.
I know it DOES wear on your clothes and will mess with dyed hair.
So I defiantly should add bleach? If I use clorox, what % is that compared to Pool store bleach? This way I can use the Pool cal.
As noted, the smell is from cloramines not FC- you can get the same smell from a SW pool if you contaminate and have CC!
The green hair issue (not dyed, but hair turning green) is usually from copper, not FC/bleach
FC can affect clothes and hair- at extremely high levels- whether it came from bleach, or SWCG the effect would be the same (so if CYA at 70, and FC at 40 or something, you might start seeing effects)
Finally, the eye issue- CC can irritate eyes, but so can pH and crystal pure water!
The inside of your eye is pH 7.5 I think- anything different can cause irritation; the more different, the more irritation!
Also, the inside of your eye is like 9000 ppm TDS- pure water causes osmosis through your eyeball, causing massive irritation!
That's the biggest reason why SW pools are less irritating- the TDS is closer, and the osmosis effect is greatly diminished!
The point being the the bleach doesn't cause any of these effects by itself- the pool is balanced to
A- kill germs/algae
B- look appealing
C- feel appealing