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Good point. I imagine it's something to do with either the resellers making money off the chemicals, or less sceptically, the fact there's more risk of overdosing with bleach or the lack of CYA on bleach. Cheers!

Ok thanks. And I'm correct in thinking CYA up using the stabilized chlorine I have, and then switch to bleach, right? thanks Dennis - I'll check that out too! Update: just googled sodiam hypochlorite and found this link...

Thank you for the suggestions. I might wait until the test kit arrives and see if I can get away with just using dilochlor and trilachlor. I know they aren't spelt right haha - I'm being lazy! I'm sure you know what I mean though. My worry with that is the CYA levels getting too high. But...

thank you. I've read up all the articles on here but appreciate the link :-)

Hi Tried searching but having problems getting the UK part of the search phrase to register. Does anyone from the UK have a type of bleach they use as chlorine? Where do you buy it? I've got a Taylor 2006c pool test kit on order and am getting everything together. This is for a 1855litre hot...

Ok thanks to you both. Appreciate it.

Hi I just received my order of muriatic acid and its labelled as hydrochloric acid. I know they are essentially the same thing, with muriatic having high baume rating due to impurities, but can I safely use hydrochloric in my hot tub to lower ph/ta? My ta is very high hence why I ordered the...

Thanks for the info. I went ahead and ordered the one you linked too! Cheers.

Hi I've spent hours and hours reading up on how to best maintain my new HotTub. Thank you for all the info here. It's amazingly helpful! So now I'm after a decent test kit but I live in the U.K. I've searched high and low and can't find any of the recommend kits available in this country...