Better than topsoil. Orange NC Clay. Freshly ground backfill clay. Had just finished backfilling a retaining wall that was 90% complete. I was waiting on another load of brick to finish the wall. I no sooner got out of the Bobcat when a gully washer came and washed all my backfill right in the pool. Talk about a mess. No stains but lots of vac to waste, fill over and over again. It took me days to get it clean. I just wish I had pictues

I can top it all with one word that will send fear into the heart of even the stoutest of you if you have any sense. Baquacil

Now I am going to have nightmares

Sorry to ruin the fun. Come on back and play.

Just kidding! I'm a big boy and can sleep most nights without a night light anymore

That's good. Hate to think someone wouldn't be able to sleep nights because of me!

No need for a sequestrant - it would already be in one big clump. Of course, getting it out would take one big, honkin' vacuum, and you'd have to vacuum to waste while you're at it. It would probably be tough to get it to go down the sewer or storm drain, so you'd then have it sitting in the yard. Probably not too much better. Forget I mentioned it.

"Honkin"-that's a funny word that I haven't heard in a long time Always good to start your day with a laugh!

I am not going to create a new thread for another one of my stupid don't-try-this-at-home questions, but what would it be like to drink a tall glass of pool water on ice? How would it taste? Would it make you sick?

It would taste like bottled water if you drank mine ('cuz that's what it is)!

We drink our customers pool water all the time! Freaks 'em out

I'm thinking the worst thing you could add to a pool is something that would be hard to figure out what the problem might be.

How about 100 pds of sugar through the strainer, wonder if Taylor makes a test kit for that?

No, but I bet Betty Crocker could lend you something.

That cat litter that clumps up when it gets wet?

Had a Webber loaded with steaks veggies potatoes oil etc- and 2-3 days of ashes in the bottom.

Kids- yard apes, over at my crib - running with the hose hooked the grill dragged it in - food ashes everything it was like slow motion hearings the coals steam out and hiss then - nothing as the batch of them hot the water then--- watching the ashes and grease spread out over the surface instantly.

Not the worst thing in the world but crappy timing for sure.

Needless to say the bbq and pool party both ended right there and then.

Uncle Dave

polyacrylamide copolymer gel

Clorox bleach actually has a small amount of sodium polyacrylate in it used mostly as a metal sequestrant that prevents minerals (mostly iron and manganese) from reacting with bleach and yellowing clothes in the washer. The amount is low enough not to cause problems, but I could imagine a large amount of polyacrylamide copolymer gel thrown into a pool becoming a very large sticky mess!