What chemicals do you keep in storage?

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MattMoore

MattMoore

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May 11, 2022
25
Kingston, On, Canada
Pool Size
65000
Surface
Vinyl
Chlorine
Liquid Chlorine
Feel free to add yours, Im wondering how keeping it simple some people do it...


for me:
Liquid chlorine -12%
CalHypo 53%
3" chlorine pucks (for CYA, leftovers from pre TFP days)

Sodium Busulfate (BioGuard Lo-n-Slo) marketed as PH-
Sodium hydrogen Carbonate (Bioguard balance pak100) marketed as Alkalinity+
Calcium (never used it, pool store sold me it...vinyl pool)


Lets hear what you keep in your sheds...
 
In my ventilated pool shed, I have two gallons of muriatic acid, up five gallons bulk chlorine, twenty five pounds of DE bag, a plastic pail with a mixing stick. Borax and Baking Soda in the laundry room
 
Andy49 said:
In my ventilated pool shed, I have two gallons of muriatic acid, up five gallons bulk chlorine, twenty five pounds of DE bag, a plastic pail with a mixing stick. Borax and Baking Soda in the laundry room
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Ventilated or not, storing muriatic acid and any chlorine product in the same space is not a good idea. MA should be stored away from other chemicals and from any metal. MA and liquid chlorine jugs have vented caps. Mixing of MA and chlorine can cause a chlorine gas incident.

Chlorine stored outdoors or in a garage/shed (in a non air conditioned space) will cause the chlorine to break down much quicker. It gets hot in Houston, any way you can store your liquid chlorine in the laundry room?
 
The laundry room has no additional storage. There is Costco size baking soda, Borax and laundry bleach. I cam put the case (2 bottles) of muriatic acid in a plastic container outside the shed. I guess I have been lucky sofar not to have any problems so far. But it only takes once.
 
Garage has liquid chlorine, granulated CYA, DE, and some borax (almost never used the borax). If I need baking soda I get it from the kitchen. If I need washing soda I get it from the laundry room.

MA is typically stored in a resin deck box near the pool, where I also keep some plastic measuring cups, a couple of large wood paint stir sticks, and a broken mesh laundry bag (zipper doesn't work) that I use to add the CYA to the pool when needed.
 
I keep 5 rotating 2.5gal jugs of 10-12.5% liquid chlorine in the air conditioned laundry room.

Muriatic acid is in kept in a box outside.

CYA in the shed.

I have an enormous bag of baking soda in the shed too, but I've never needed it. I bought it before I understood where my chemistry is at. Thanks to my high pH water I'm certain I'll never need it.
 
Just read this and realized storing my chlorine and Muriatic acid in same shed bad idea. I can move the chlorine inside to laundry room easily enough, but is MA ok in shed with other dry chemicals? Or in garage?
 
pgershon said:
Just read this and realized storing my chlorine and Muriatic acid in same shed bad idea. I can move the chlorine inside to laundry room easily enough, but is MA ok in shed with other dry chemicals? Or in garage?
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If there’s metal near it, it will rust.
 

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pgershon said:
Even though acid is in sealed jugs? How best to store?
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Likely those "sealed" jugs actually have "vented" caps.
How much MA do you keep on hand? Maybe find a plastic trash can or other plastic only storage solution. Store outside and away from anything metal. Be sure it's in a secure place where kids and animals can't access it.
 
I just put in a 5 gallon trash container with a lid outside the shed. 4 one gallon containers, one is open already. Trouble is I am going through very high acid use for my new Diamond Brite. Hopefully it lessens soon. Will add boric acid shortly and that should help too. Unless or until my wife screams, the trash container is a good solution.
 
I had 12.5% chlorine, 32% muriatic acid (not stored together), some dry CYA, and...that's it. In nearly all cases, that's all you need for a TFP clear pool:
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Okay, for plaster pools and very soft fill water you may also need some calcium, but I had a vinyl pool which doesn't need any calcium and very hard water to boot, so even if I had a plaster pool I wouldn't be needing to add any calcium.

The only other stuff I ever used was baking soda and once or twice washing soda. But this was only ever for my hot tub, when I got a little too enthusiastic about the acid/aeration process to lower TA in a hot tub and tanked my pH. Unless you accidentally add way too much acid in one go to your pool, or unless you have fill water with a TA of like 60 or less, I can't see ever needing them for a pool. Didn't need them for my hot tub either once I slowed down and took my time. :D
 
I'm new to the game, but so far we are keeping liquid chlorine in jugs in our basement, along with granular CYA and some other chemicals that are holdovers from pre-TFPC (e.g. soda ash, but under the expensive BioGuard names). I keep borax & baking soda with my K2006C test kit in our pantry. Haven't picked up muriatic acid yet, but I plan on keeping it in an upright plastic cabinet/shed near the pool that used to hold the last owner's chemicals and test kit.
 
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