Hi everyone! I’m new here to TFP, and very grateful to have found this amazing resource! It’s crazy what I have learned just reading this site for about a week. Here’s my story/question/concerns:
We bought a new house in August 2017 that had a partially inground Fox pool, 22,500 gallons, using bacquacil. I had an above ground pool using chlorine growing up, but it has been many years since I had to deal with any of this. For the past summer-and-a-half that we have used the pool at our new home, I just couldn’t understand the bacquacil - - and the cost was staggering, not to mention constant trips to the pool store to have the water analyzed. This season I made the decision to move to chlorine. Finding out about the BBB method sounds even more appealing to me, since I can really do it myself!
I have already purchased the Taylor 2006 test kit with the powder chlorine test, and have verified that the pH is good. I’ve checked through other posts about what happens when you add the bleach to the bacquacil pools - but just to verify, it’s gonna get messy, right? My water is clear right now, so it’s a little weird to intentionally ‘muck it up,’ but I understand that it’s part of this process to get rid of the bacquacil. Some other questions:
-After adding the bleach, does the filter run normally? I thought I saw that someone said to run it on ‘recirculate’
-When I start to vacuum the pool during this process, do I set it to waste?
-my sand was changed before the pool was opened this season (no bacquacil added) - will I have to change it out again after this process?
Thanks to everyone for sharing their experience and knowledge!
-Mike
We bought a new house in August 2017 that had a partially inground Fox pool, 22,500 gallons, using bacquacil. I had an above ground pool using chlorine growing up, but it has been many years since I had to deal with any of this. For the past summer-and-a-half that we have used the pool at our new home, I just couldn’t understand the bacquacil - - and the cost was staggering, not to mention constant trips to the pool store to have the water analyzed. This season I made the decision to move to chlorine. Finding out about the BBB method sounds even more appealing to me, since I can really do it myself!
I have already purchased the Taylor 2006 test kit with the powder chlorine test, and have verified that the pH is good. I’ve checked through other posts about what happens when you add the bleach to the bacquacil pools - but just to verify, it’s gonna get messy, right? My water is clear right now, so it’s a little weird to intentionally ‘muck it up,’ but I understand that it’s part of this process to get rid of the bacquacil. Some other questions:
-After adding the bleach, does the filter run normally? I thought I saw that someone said to run it on ‘recirculate’
-When I start to vacuum the pool during this process, do I set it to waste?
-my sand was changed before the pool was opened this season (no bacquacil added) - will I have to change it out again after this process?
Thanks to everyone for sharing their experience and knowledge!
-Mike