BTW. I got in a big argument with a guy at work today. I told him about BBB last week, and today he told me that he asked the pool store about it and they said it will "destroy your pool." He believes them of course. And this is the same guy who a month ago told me he was fed up with getting his water tested and having the pool store tell him he needed to buy $50 worth of chemicals.
This is the standard pool store line....Liquid chlorine IS bleach! same chemical--sodium hypochlorite!
He said using bleach will destroy the liner. Funny thing is, my liner is bleached badly, but not from bottled bleach. It's from the POWDER! I've been using that for three years and THAT'S what bleached the bottom of my pool. Doesn't liquid bleach fade the liner around the water line? I haven't seen any fading there at all. But I've only been doing BBB for about a month.
He also said borax WAS laundry soap. I told him it was a "booster" not soap, but to no avail. I am a little skeptical now though since I have that soapy/slippery feeling in my pool and bubbles. But worst case is I start buying PH adder at walmart. I'm definitely going to keep using bleach though.