Recent content by BobKat

OK, a little more digging revealed that this does NOT make the equivalent of 60 gallons of bleach (despite what the label clearly states.) It makes 60 gallons of "bleach cleaning solution," or TWO gallons of bleach. As I said in my OP, sounded too good to be true. Sorry for the waste of a post.

Has anyone used this instead of liquid bleach? The description says one bottle of this concentrate makes 60 gallons of Bleach. Sounds too good to be true for under 18 bucks...

$6000 for this project sounds unbelievably low to me!!! I'm doing a similar thing (changing a 9ft deep pool to 4.5 ft), and my quote is over $50K. It includes new tile around the edge, installation of a Baja ledge, shallowing the pool, and new gunite everywhere. I had another quote for $125K...

Thanks! What you said about depth makes a lot of sense. My husband and pool builder were both leaning toward 6 ft (at the deepest end, not for most of the pool) so I was compromising at 5 or 5 1/2'. But after reading your reply, and thinking about it more, even 5' is too deep to hold my...

The house we moved into a couple years ago has a 20ish year old gunite pool, 20x40, 9 feet at deep end. We been getting quotes to make the pool shallower (water depth of 5 or 5 1/2 feet at the deepest), add a Baja ledge, and new coating and tile. The PB we are leaning toward has a lot of...

So, regarding my high calcium (1000), do you think it would be worth trying a calcium reducer (some brand of sodium hexametaphosphate, or even Calgon laundry additive) before draining and refilling? I got a quote of $850 for draining/refilling, which I thought was really high, then I found out...

My controller is a CAT 2000, and if I'm looking at the right thing, it's going to cost $400 to replace these 2 probes! Does that sound right? Also, JasonLion, you suggested I not even use the ORP sensor, but, if I'm understanding my system correctly, I then could not use the automatic chemical...

I've been reading on this site for several days, and I have noticed that ORP meters do not seem to be thought of highly here. Why is that? I mentioned this to my husband (mech. engineer and Director of Operations for an oil corp), and he said refineries always use ORP to monitor chlorine, and...

We moved to Texas 2 weeks ago. The house we bought has a pool (built in 2010) that is supposedly very easy to maintain. It monitors the water and adds chemicals as needed, has a Polaris 3900 cleaner. Water and pool surfaces look clean. This is our first experience owning a pool, so we don't...