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A friend of mine has not opened his in-ground vinyl pool in about five years, and has decided to get it cleaned out this year. I believe it has a Hayward sand filter if I recall correctly. Needless to say it is currently a swamp. Since he was running Baquacil I'm going to recommend it be...

In my conversion thread last year (yet-another-baquacil-conversion-thread-t24136.html), my parents' pool had been on Baquacil for over 10 years, and had a high level of sanitizer when we started (40-50 ppm). The conversion was pretty painless, though; the water cleared in two days and the...

11:00 pm: FC: 14.5 CC: 1.0 5:30 am: FC: 13.0 CC: 1.0

12:30 am: FC: 0.0 CC: 1.0 pH: 7.5 add 28 oz muriatic acid 1:00 am: FC: 0.0 CC: 1.0 pH: 7.2 TA: 110-120 add 2 gallons bleach 1:30 am: FC: 15.5 CC: 1.5 6:30 am: FC: 12.0 CC: 1.0 Argh, where is it going? Oh, maybe to the dead bird in the skimmer basket? Sigh... (Anybody know how much FC a...

11:15 pm: FC: 0.0 CC: 1.5 pH: 7.4 12:00 am: FC: 18.0 CC: 2.0 6:15 am: FC: 14.0 CC: 2.0 Still cooking I see...

Thanks. Do you have any idea how much dilution is required to avoid noticeably bleaching toys with fabric if you're going to do it outside of the pool, yet still clean up the Baqua pretty well?

And they are! 6:00 PM: FC: 0 CC: 3.5 add ~2.3 gallons 10% bleach 6:30 PM: FC: 16.5 CC: 3.5 11:00 PM: FC: 14.5 CC: 3.5 We'll see what happens tonight. What should we do about cleaning other Baqua-infested stuff? I was figuring that we could wash the ladders with something like a 1:10 bleach...

Readings by my dad: Jun 30 10:30 PM: FC: 22.5 CC: 8.5 Jul 1 6:45 AM: FC: ~20 CC: ~10 (These measurements were done with 15ml of water by mistake, and returned 30 and 15 respectively.) I stopped by on the way to work to check things out. Did it ever clear up overnight! It's not perfectly...

So yeah, test strips suck. Got a call from my dad late afternoon. He had been adding bleach at what should have been the right amounts for what the crappy strips were showing. The interesting thing is that after adding one time the water changed almost immediately - whatever was milking it up...