I've been a liquid chlorine user from day one of our pool commissioning about three years ago whether it be from Home Depot, Walmart, my pool contractor or a local pool cleaner guy who sold from his supply on the side. This time of year up here in the upper Mojave Desert it takes about 1/2 - 1 gallon of 10% per day to keep my chlorine above 2 PPM by the time I check it the next day, depending on how long the retractable pool cover was open for, what time of day and how many people were enjoying it. Recently all supplies of 10%+ liquid chlorine have gone dry (I'm not ready to use 6% or less bleach as I've found it to generally be weaker than advertised and very expensive in recent years) so I've had to resort to what I could find to keep my pool up and running which has been cal hypo for the past few days and I went ahead and purchased a bucket of trichlor today just to have something available.
I generally keep about 30-40 PPM of CYA in my pool (it disappears over the course of a few months and I have to add it a few times per year) so I'd like to switch to trichlor tablets for the time being but I'm trying to think of a good way to dispense of the trichlor without having to leave my pool cover off or install some sort of inline chlorine dispenser since this is hopefully only a temporary situation. Possible solution would be to anchor a floating chlorine dispenser on a rope from the bottom of the pool so the dispenser wouldn't be right up against the pool cover fabric but then I've got to shorten up the hose on my Hayward Goby pool vacuum so it doesn't get tangled up with my rig. I could use something like this to handle chlorination while gone on vacation even after liquid chlorine supplies (hopefully) return to normal.
Any thoughts?
I generally keep about 30-40 PPM of CYA in my pool (it disappears over the course of a few months and I have to add it a few times per year) so I'd like to switch to trichlor tablets for the time being but I'm trying to think of a good way to dispense of the trichlor without having to leave my pool cover off or install some sort of inline chlorine dispenser since this is hopefully only a temporary situation. Possible solution would be to anchor a floating chlorine dispenser on a rope from the bottom of the pool so the dispenser wouldn't be right up against the pool cover fabric but then I've got to shorten up the hose on my Hayward Goby pool vacuum so it doesn't get tangled up with my rig. I could use something like this to handle chlorination while gone on vacation even after liquid chlorine supplies (hopefully) return to normal.
Any thoughts?