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All finished with the conversion! Changed the sand out yesterday and added the CYA. Used a total of 42 bottles of 8.25% bleach. Here's a picture of the pool with the used bleach bottles put to good use ;) I also just added the borax tonight to get the borates up to 50 ppm. Looking forward...

Pool is looking good. Going to perform an OCLT tonight and see where I'm at. Here's a picture of it today:

Up to 32 jugs of bleach now. The pool is looking better every day. Here is a picture of it yesterday. You can see the bottom and the water is relatively clear. Has kind of a radioactive green color to it. :mrgreen: Here is a picture of the pool today. Less green than yesterday.

As of this morning I've used 19 jugs of bleach. I am just going to be dosing once in the morning and a few times in the evening since the sun will not be shining on the pool during these times. I tested the water this morning and had an overnight FC loss of 3. Here is a picture of the pool...

Good deal. Tomorrow is supposed to be mostly cloudy so good day to hit it hard. My FC hasnt decreased much after the first test. I added enough bleach to get to 15 ppm each time each hour. The first test showed FC 1, the next showed FC 12, and the next showed FC 13. I was expecting a much...

Thanks for the info! How long did your sister's take to complete? How often were you adding bleach?

Well, I've added bleach two more times an hour apart to raise FC back to 15 ppm. Here is a picture of the pool now:

I tested the pH when I got home and it was 7.2. So, let the process begin! I added 4 bottles of bleach to the pool. This is a picture right before I added the bleach: These are some pictures right after I added the bleach (Pretty Colors! :mrgreen:):

My test kit came in today. Tested the pH and TA. pH was 7.8 and TA was 110. I ran to Lowes and picked up a gallon of muriatic acid and added about half a gallon to get the ph down to 7.2 using the pool calculator. I'll check the ph again tomorrow before I start adding bleach. Looking forward to...

Hello everyone! I've been reading a lot about the Baquacil to chlorine conversion on this forum. I can't wait to have a much less troublesome pool after it's all said and done. I ordered the TF-100 XL test kit on Tuesday. Looks like it will be here tomorrow! It looks like I'll be starting the...