JohnT said:Most of those strips require you to quickly dip it in the water and pull it out for the chlorine test, then to put it back in for 30 seconds or so for the pH and TA. After a few seconds, the chlorine test will be bleached out and useless. May be different than the ones I used.
Buggsw said:JohnT - I've never seen strips that instruct you to do it that way - I'm curious what brand would that be?
Wampa - Some strips are just awful - only a few brands are marginally ok.
Can you not get a drop test kit, anywhere?
The Mermaid Queen said:I did not see the first pic before... love the floating 'bar'!
Since you will be draining your pool at the end of the season, I would just hit it with bleach every evening, and not worry too much about the stabilizer/CYA. You might use a tad more bleach, but you have a small pool, so it probably won't be that much different. I would use the Jasons calculator (see my sig) and figure how much bleach you need to get to 3ppm. Then just pour that in every evening.
Glad you still have your skin
divnkd101 said:Does this help your search. It is simple disinfecting bleach... I am not sure how potent. You can read the label. I found this in the cleaning section of the website (ASDA).
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