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  1. PoolFool.

    Best Places to Buy Liquid Chlorine

    Just checked my Rural King bleach strength. It was 141 days old, but still tested at 9.6% with JasonLion 10,000 to 1 dilution. Commercial bleach: testing concentration They must be doing something right on shipping and storing. My store had it stored on a pallet inside the store. With the...
  2. PoolFool.

    Best Places to Buy Liquid Chlorine

    I had not checked at ALDI's before because they had the pondersome 1/ gallon jugs. Now it's a gallon jug of 6% for $2.59 at my store anyway. Maybe chem geek can crunch the numbers and tell us how much more plastic is used in bottling and hauling around half gallon containers (PITA) over gallon...
  3. PoolFool.

    HELP! Thought things were going well....

    Welcome to the forum. Until you get a SWCG or other automatic system installed you will likely need a good liquid chlorine / bleach supply. A lot of pool owners in your area seem to like Ocean State Job Lot for bleach / chlorine / shock (used somewhat interchangeably, my store had no idea...
  4. PoolFool.

    Best Places to Buy Liquid Chlorine

    I think what happened is it used to be cheap and economical to buy non scented 8.25% bleach at a lot of stores, including wally's. Now the have increased water and decreased the bleach content all for the same price. So really a huge price hike has sent everyone scrambling for some good and...
  5. PoolFool.

    Pump and sand filter questions......

    Glycerin gauge +++ had 3 cheapie ones that just flat out died with no movement inside 2 years at my inherited swamp. I didn't bother to look locally, too hard to find specialty items, most retailers would rather carry the cheap and inaccurate stuff you can buy from them again and again. Mine...