Going on vacation first thing tomorrow morning and no one to help with pool, so using pucks while away. Will be gone for 10 days. Just opened a chlorine floater I ordered online only to find out that it is the wrong size -- it looks like it is made for the tiny 1" tablets. No pool stores near me are open right now! Now what? Can I put a couple pucks in a sock and hang in front of the return jet like I would for granular CYA?
Chlorine pucks with no dispenser?
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derekm
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I could but won't that make them dissolve too quickly? I need this to last for 10 days.
shwn2405
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- Jun 7, 2021
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- Pool Size
- 17200
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-9)
Killer95Stang
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Try lowes, HD, or a 24 hour Walmart which all have floaters. I recently went on trip for 14 days. I turned my swg down to 20% and put three 3" tabs in a floater and it was 95% desolved when I got back. I lowered the swg and used tabs to help keep the ph level in check, since I couldn't manually add acid while was gone.
shwn2405
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- Jun 7, 2021
- 57
- Pool Size
- 17200
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-9)
Killer95Stang
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You could be right.... I remember it being 24 hours near me and the one visit after 11pm was enough for me. Since it was the only 24 hour store around, it brought in a lot of interesting people from the surrounding areas.
shwn2405
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- Jun 7, 2021
- 57
- Pool Size
- 17200
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-9)
shwn2405
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- Jun 7, 2021
- 57
- Pool Size
- 17200
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-9)
@rocker93 try bringing your fc up to slam level of what your cya is right now. Do you have a solar cover? that would help from the sun burning off the fc. I would bring it up to slam levels and then try to get that floater. Walmart has tons of LC in my area. Figured they would in your area too.
Correct, I do not have a SWG, just use LC (until now anyway). Walmart is a great idea, hadn't thought of that -- thanks!!
- Jun 1, 2018
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- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
I know its late & I also don’t have a picture but in the past my tab floater was a large plastic applesauce jar with lots of holes drilled in it. I also drilled holes in the screw on top, ran fishing line through that & tied it to a duck decoy so it would float. It worked very well for many years. Any large plastic jar / container with a plastic screw on lid would work so long as u have something bouyant enough to keep it afloat tied to it.
- Jun 1, 2018
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- Pool Size
- 26000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
derekm
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A combo of bringing the liquid chlorine up to SLAM level and the floater with the slots turned to low would likely get you through.
Also an empty chlorine gallon bottle works, cut it open on three sides and add the pucks in and tape it back shut. Then stab a few holes in the top near the cap and put it in the pool upside down. The air will hold it up so it floats.
Put tablets in a pool net. Then attach a pole to the net. Put the pole and net across the pool supported by the edges of the pool. Tablets are immersed in the water.