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I would strongly recommend against using liquid chlorine. Handling liquid chlorine is always a big concern from a safety point of view.
Aside from perhaps getting some bleach spots on your clothes, wear a standard pair of safety glasses and there's no problems. Tens of thousands of TFPers use bleach/LC everyday without issue
Liquid chlorine has a very high PH and makes balancing the water more difficult. Liquid chlorine is “non-stabilized” and has lots of “waste”.
All bleach/LC has both excess lye (sodium hydroxide) and salt in it. However, you are using, at most, a few cups at a time and so the dilution into tens of thousands of gallons of water makes little or no difference to the pH. Since you are in the New England, your average annual rain fall along with backwashing, etc, will more than help keep the salt levels under control.
There is no "waste" in bleach/LC, so that statement is nothing more than a scare tactic. Stabilized chlorine is either dichlor powder or trichlor tablets. They both add CYA (cyanuric acid) to your water. Long term use of those chemicals without significant water exchanges leads to excess CYA in your water, over stabilization and then algae blooms.
We do sell these on commercial pools, but would never recommend on a residential pool. They are also fairly expensive. You are correct that you would need a separate chlorine pump and also a crock to hold the chlorine. This starts to take up a lot of space as well. If you decide to go this direction, I will get you pricing but again, this is not something I would recommend.
Thousands of TFPers have installed DIY Stenner LC pumps for less than a $1000 and, in many cases, under $500. They are not expensive and, if you have even modest DIY skills, then you can easily install one after the PB is done.
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