kal2002 said:
Now I want to try BBB and the TF-100 is on its way. But if it requires that much bleach every day, I just might stick with the tablets and supplement it with bleach when necessary. Will that work?
It all depend on where your CYA is, and also how expensive it will be for you to dump water and rebalance. If you have water restrictions, I noticed California location, it may not be possible for you to dump half your pool and add water when you'd need to if you did primarily tablets and CYA got too high.
Before you go that route, you might try to locate an RO service and get that price on the table to figure it in your analysis. they can filter the water so that you avoid replacement, though you may still have to add a lot of chemicals to get it rebalanced.
You might need to get a good test of your tap water and determine how much it would cost to get it from tap water levels to recommended levels on a refill. I just put $28 worth of calcium increaser in my pool to get CH up about 75 ppm due to rain. If you had to lower TA a lot or raise CH a lot that could be expensive.
I suspect you might get a lot of rain in the winter, so that could help dilute the CYA that builds up. We do here and so this year I started with low CYA and low CH. For now I am using tablets and bleach, but pretty soon I will go to bleach alone, when CYA gets to the top of the allowable range.
The first order of business is to determine what the levels in the pool are right now. Then you can look at your options. There are also things that can slow the loss of chlorine, like a pool cover or shade cover. You may add SWG for automatic chlorination. There are options.