The Top 10 uses for your old pool chemicals

[SeanB]

Sorry, I got a late start this month. We don't have as much time, so be sure to get your entry in.

It's okay to admit it... before finding TFP, I know some of you bought the pool store sales pitch and took home some unecessary chemicals, products, or other snake oil.

Now that you are in control of your water, what creative uses can you think of for that stuff?

The top 10 will be used in the August edition of the newsletter.

 

[Molson]

I now have the cleanest, most balanced pool house toilet in town.

 

[jinnbaker1]

My toilet is sparkling too!!! :lol: I use my old pucks in the toilet. The idea came to me one day when I was dropping one of the bleach toilet cleaners into the tank and had a light bulb moment--I had a ton of unused chlorine pucks in the garage and sure wasn't going to use them for the pool!!

 

[SeanB]

You all crack me up. I was mostly looking for Letterman style Top 10 (jokes), but you are finding real uses too. :lol:

 

[Northcountry]

Use the 3" chlorine pucks as a hockey puck to practice your wrist shot.

 

[mrafal]

They make my "pool shelf" look impressive and pool care seem complicated (to the uninformed). No one really needs to know that the sparkling water takes almost no work and most of the various bottles of goo are just keeping my stock of bleach company.

Maybe I'll go dust off those extra bottles so they don't look so ignored :lol:

 

[AnnaK]

The pH Up got sprinkled in the dog poop bucket for odor management.
The pH down was turned into poison ivy killer.
I'm keeping the trichlor for vacation use.

I gave the hardness increaser to a friend who couldn't afford the prescription

 

[mrafal]

I gave the hardness increaser to a friend who couldn't afford the prescription

ROFL :compress:

 

[pooladdict]

I to enjoy having it all stock piled in the pool house, much like that Commercial on TV where the mom is making Rice Krispie Square, where she keeps the kids in the kitchen, to which they are yelling..."READY YET?" and she says not yet, then takes flour, covers her face in it, then walks out with finished tray. Then when you finally tell the truth, about how simple it is to keep a pool sparkling clean, they almost cant believe you. For that, I have sealed most of the containers PB brought upon set up and dated them. :-D

 

[haybird]

Top up the in-laws drinks when they come over.

 

[Northcountry]

Top up the in-laws drinks when they come over.

That's bad...but funny, I like it

 

[tnthudson]

Haybird, that was a good one

OK let me try a few, this is fun
- Put them on my Net Worth report, watch my value triple.
- Open up a stand across the street from my PB and sell them at half price; take his offer for full partnership when he realizes what's going on.
- Mix them with bleach and let my kid win the Science Fair for once.

 

[Craig]

For the Vinyl liner Owners.....Calcium builds strong bones and teeth

 

[Crzyfrlss1]

The pH down was turned into poison ivy killer.

Did that really work

 

[waste]

Sell them on E-Bay to a nearby Federal prison, neglect to report that income on your 1040 and end up in selfsame prison for tax evasion (just remember not to use the pool - they don't properly maintain it!)



Amaze your friends and neighbors by sinking spiders in the pool by pouring the linear quat on them


Watch your pool go from crystal clear to milky by actually using them

 

[AnnaK]

The pH down was turned into poison ivy killer.

Did that really work

It has so far. We had a vine of it twisted around a tree. We cut a 6" section out of the vine with secaturs - the long handles allowed us to keep at a respectful distance. We mixed what pH Down we had left, about 1/2 of a small pail, with water, put it in a sprayer, and unloaded it on the vine and leaves at ground level.

That was back in mid-May this year. The leaves have died back and the vine looks pretty dessicated. no new growth in the vicinity.

Several of our neighbours use bleach to kill PO/PI, same method: spray it directly on the leaves.

Mods, please feel free to move this post elsewhere. I'm not wanting to hijack this very amusing thread.

 

[Soda_fountain]

I gave mine to my parents to use in their small yard foutain......

My dad thinks the foam adds 'character' !!!

 

[h2ctpdjl]

I USED to have a mole problem in my yard. Not anymore! Open the top of an active tunnel and drop in ANY of the chemicals. If it will drive a mole away, why were we swimming in the stuff?

 

[MikeInTN]

Secretly dumping them in a neighbor's pool and then watching him go crazy trying to figure out why his levels keep going up and down

or

using them to create a special mind-control serum to take control of the population on my way to taking over control of the world!! MUWAHHHHAHHHAHHHHHH!!!!!