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Bleach is in very short supply in our area (KY); any suggestions on which chemicals to use instead??????????

With the Covid 19 pandemic, bleach has become an elusive purchase. I have been using trouble free pool past seven years and have had excellent results with bleach. However, I am no longer able to find enough bleach to work my pool. My first option would be to use Sams Club chemicals. Two...

What happened to the pool calculator??? I bookmarked it and used it last year (2018). Now when I go to it, I'm asked to log in and when I do I'm told that I may have been deleted. The website I have bookmarked is Home - Pool Calculator. I don't know if this is associated with Trouble Free...

I'm back. I'm fixing to open my pool and I'd like a little refresher...bought all new test chemicals last month and am ready to go. I assume I initially shock the pool to 15 ppm and hold it there until I meet the three main criteria: 1)You lose 1ppm or less FC overnight, & 2)You have .5ppm...

I have been using pool store to close my pool. Have read "Pool Closing" info on TFP& plan on closing in 2-3 wks. I plan on following TFP plan; however havebroken my wrist (cast-6 more wks.) Pool people have usually put chlorine tabs in when closing. Have ordered Polyquat and, if I follow TFP...

Thanks to everyone for all the excellent advice in my battle to take control of my pool. I'm on my second week and everything in the pool looks great. If I hadn't squandered my first 50-60 gallons of bleach, I'd be waaaaay under what I spent last year on pool store and Walmart chemicals. As it...

I'm having difficulty starting a new topic; so I'll just ask in this one: After a rain that brings water up above skimmer top, is is better to backwash and rinse the extra water out, or just to use the drain feature on the filter?

Thanks to all for the advice. Finished shocking my pool six days ago and have had to add only minimal amt. of bleach since.....took me more than 100 gallons to get where I am, but, as someone told me earlier in this forum, I was just "throwing away" my bleach in my earlier attempts. Now that I...

I've kept the FC reading between 15 and 20 (closer to 20) for the past seven days. However, overnight my FC readings have dropped the following: Sun -5.5, Mon -5.5, Tue -5.5, Wed -5.5, Thu -5.5, Fri -8.5, Sat -3.5. I have also checked pH daily and it wants to drift up to 8.2 or higher. I've...

I have steps & brush them. I pressure washed rungs of steps before installing them.

I'll bump up to 20; pool is crystal clear all the time Yes, brushing every day I don't know how to post a picture; I can if you can tell me how I kinda rotate between KMart, Walmart, & Kroger's looking for the best deal.

This is 4th straight morning FC has dropped more than 2.0 ppm overnight. I'm testing around 10pm and 5am; other readings: pH 7.6, CC 0-0.5, TA 150, CH 240, and CYA 50. I've been adding bleach to run FC up to 15-18 every 3-4 hrs. but I still can't get the FC to drop less than 1ppm overnight...

I am still working on the shock process. Day before yesterday at last nightly reading CC was .5 and FC was 18.5. It dropped to 8 yesterday AM before sunrise. I added 3 gals bleach yesterday at 6 readings throughout the day accd'g to Pool Calculator. FC rdg was 18.5 at last nightly reading...

FC Levels Yesterday: 11:25-8, 3:15-12, 4:30-15.5, 7:30-18.5, 10:10-15.5. Back down to 8 this AM, I'm getting there but another bad accident w/underwear yesterday, so going to get more bleach!

Thanks, I didn't think that was much of a problem. Here's where I am: Last night when I stopped checking (11:25) my FC had dropped to8.5; I added a couple of gallons of bleach; this morning it was well over 20; (6:20AM), it dropped to 8 by 11:25 and I added bleach (a little more than PC rec'd)...