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Re: Water slightly cloudy, plan to shock; but how high to go Just a quick note to confirm two things that I believe to be true about measuring FC based on this old thread converting-from-bromine-to-chlorine-pucks-any-advice-t37885.html: 1. Because my pool was first a bromine pool, with...

Re: Water slightly cloudy, plan to shock; but how high to go Aaaaargh! Why didn't I think of that? Grrrr. But then, would the airline have allowed it in checked luggage? When I tried to buy, the seller told me that USPS will no longer mail the kits internationally. TSA might have had kittens...

Hi all, Thanks to you fine people, we are BBB users now - started this year. I buy little plastic bubbles of 9.6% sodium hypoclorite at the supermarket for 40 cents, and we use only one a day in season. When I went to buy more test strips, the pool store people said they thought we had moved...

That's just what I was thinking when I reading the previous posts. We have a very big pine near our pool, only a few meters away, and not so much pine needles in our pool. Oh yes, a few here and there, but not so bad as to write any letters of injury. :hammer: That self-pruning aspect is one...

We need a visual screen for our neighbors, but I don't want to cause trouble with there pool. They have a nice pretty suburban house, whilst ours is rather more rustic, with firewood logs getting cut up, tractors, etc. :blah: Their pool is about 9m (60') from the fenceline where I'll plant...

Hello friends, Romans, and countrymen. We used bromine pucks for years, but are now switching to BBB (via a few other threads - search if your interested). Years passed, I would just load up a few floaters in late Fall with $50 of bromine pucks, then double cover the pool. In the late Spring...

Fortunately you cough up lots of krap every hour just to clean out your lungs. I saw some countryman of mine smoking today and boy I just had to tell him how dumb it is. We are born with pink lungs then we go down hill from there, non? :hammer: :rant: I been working all day weed pulling and...

After 5 years of getting pool-stored and using bromine pucks, I'm slowly switching to chlorine. But now the garage where I stored a bucket of pucks has a strong chlorine smell. I remember seeing the damage done by chlorine gas to a metal shed under the community pool. The steel was eaten away...

I found out the easy way that the fantastic test kit from this forum cannot be shiped or mailed to France. I got a lead here for Palintest but strike out with french distributor: "We've never heard of that kit. How do you spell Palintest?" they said. This is so often what life in France is like...

Hi friends, I will try to synthesyse what I am hearing here. I have put numbers on these ideas so we can say for example "oh, number n is wrong/right" and thusly disabigueate these things clearly in our postings. 1. The chlorine pucks might be dangereus and make heat in with my bromine pucks...

No I canot say with sureness that I know that issue. Is an "issue" like explosion?

Help some expert please! I am allmost out of bromine pucks! My brominator is allmost empty now. We are going round and round here with us who are not experts but are trying with all our hearts to help me with a honest question. :hammer: Are them experts all on vacation? Please is their some...

Dave I want a "like button" for you post! :mrgreen:

It's OK we French yell a lot, all the time, when I go to American Im amazed how polite they are.

Hi Jason, would you please look at this new thread I start where now they say if I mix chlorine pucks with bromine it could EXPLODE. http://www.troublefreepool.com/post310327.html#p310327

OK you got my attention, yelling works. I yell at my kids, my papa yelled at me, are we not all really just big kids sometimes? I am waiting now for further instructions. But look here and see the Jason Lion guy did not warn me of explosion...

Hi american friends and other worldly too, Well here I did get some very usefull advise about those nosty expensive bromine pucks as you call them. You guys told me that I can use chlorine pucks instead, so I bought some the other day. They cost only 30% as much as the turdly bromine pucks! And...

Hah! I like that! One more question please: :hammer: If I do go that path, will I still need to multiply the chlorine test result displayed on our tester by 2.25 to get the true bromine equivalency? I suppose that the answer will be YES because we will still have bromine in there, not chlorine.

I guess I don't understand that answer, I am sorry. Throwing away the water will cost me $100 to refill it. So I would like to avoid that. You say I can switch to chlorine anytime, but to truly switch is not the same thing? Colour me confused please!

Hi friends, :) Like you can see in this old post http://www.troublefreepool.com/ok-i-guess-i-am-offensive-french-but-i-need-bromine-info-t26548.html I am using bromine because, well, because some people told me it is better then chlorine. :hammer: Now on this list, I am not so sure I was...

Strike One with french distributor: "We've never heard of that kit. How do you spell Palintest?" they said. This is so often what life in France is like when you try to find the good stuff except food and wine. :hammer: You folks in the America are lucky I understand. My brother in LA says you...

Yes then well maybe that you are right now. They say it will rain finaly today, we have now 2 month with allmost no rain!

One full day later FAC is down to 4ppm, Ph is 6.9, and dissolved alkalines is 80. The kids helped clean the bottom. Life is good. :mrgreen:

You'd need to examine the housing of your pump closely and look for a threaded boss. That's a flat spot of metal with a threaded hole in it that would match the male threads on your gauge. There may or may not be a boss on your pump. It would be on the output side of the pump. If you have none...

Well my friend I did try to buy that tester kit, but it can not be shiped outside of the America. :(

Now here, you see where I get such bad advise in France. They say, with no laugh face, that I must shock every few days! Of course they want me to buy there shock product too! :hammer:

Re: not sure where to put this, sore lil boy parts after poo Those poor little boys!

Thank you, I did just send some email to them in the UK to see if they sell kits in France too.

Oh if only tech support clients were all so nice as are you about all this! :hammer:

You know I do not understand why my countrypeople say americans are not polite. I find you are some most polite people with the kind words allways. Well, maybe there is enough described of your kit for me to make some like it here?