As a southern pool owner (TX) I pulled the trigger a number of years ago on a switch from pucks to LC. Just got tired of fighting high CYA and decided I'd rather be surprised by a 6 month CYA crash and pay more to run LC than deal with toggling back and forth (pucks to LC to pucks) to keep CYA below 100ppm. I'm largely satisfied, but I keep wondering if there isn't a better way to source pool LC?
My current source is 3-6 gallon boxes from HD or Lowes. The former is usually a little cheaper, but one or the other is constantly out of LC, so I go with whoever has it in stock. The price typically hovers around $4 / gal, currently $4.28. That isn't terrible, but it's obviously more expensive than buying a tub of pucks that'll last me a year. Side note, I have trees around my pool, so a gallon typically lasts about 2.5 days.
When I've price checked alternative sources they're all more expensive than HD/Lowes, probably because no one has the scale to ship heavy liquids at low prices. I know that commercial outfits source their LC commercially from chemical companies, often by the hundreds of gallons. Is there nothing in between? Is there some source I'm missing for 5+ gallon buckets of the stuff you could buy and use with a pump at the pad?
Interested in any thoughts.
Thanks,
rt
My current source is 3-6 gallon boxes from HD or Lowes. The former is usually a little cheaper, but one or the other is constantly out of LC, so I go with whoever has it in stock. The price typically hovers around $4 / gal, currently $4.28. That isn't terrible, but it's obviously more expensive than buying a tub of pucks that'll last me a year. Side note, I have trees around my pool, so a gallon typically lasts about 2.5 days.
When I've price checked alternative sources they're all more expensive than HD/Lowes, probably because no one has the scale to ship heavy liquids at low prices. I know that commercial outfits source their LC commercially from chemical companies, often by the hundreds of gallons. Is there nothing in between? Is there some source I'm missing for 5+ gallon buckets of the stuff you could buy and use with a pump at the pad?
Interested in any thoughts.
Thanks,
rt