Coming chlorine shortage? - It is Here!

[Sephiroth66]

How much is cocaine going for on Amazon?

Like Bezos would share his stash...psh!!

On a more related note- I just had to get out of this mess so I'm really hoping LC stays in supply a bit longer. Maybe the crazies and their hoarding won't get to my precious bleach aisle for a few more months.

 

[markayash]

How much is cocaine going for on Amazon?

Somebody should make a skit like this for Chlorine

 

[CubbiesFan]

Trying to open my above ground pool. When I took the cover off the water looked good (not cloudy, green, etc). However, I'm not hold chlorine for some reason. So maybe there is algae in there I cannot see. So I need to SLAM my pool to 17. I had bought several gallons of Wal-Mart Liquid Chlorine a few weeks ago thinking I wouldn't need that much and there was a buying limit because of the chlorine shortage. Today at 2pm my FC was 6.5, CC was 0.5 and TC was 7. Just 4 hours later my CC hasn't budged and my FC is 1. At 2pm I added what was recommended on TFP Pool Math to get to slam level but still lost chlorine. My worry now is there is no liquid chlorine left in my town. I've checked both Wal-Mart's, Leslie's and pool stores. The pool dept is at both Wal-Marts are nearly completely empty. No liquid chlorine and no granules. What are you all using if you can't get any liquid chlorine. I desperately don't want to go to the pool store to use their 1 lb. packets. Thanks!

Latest #s
FC 1
CC 0.5
TC 1.5
Ph 7.2
TA 80
CYA 42

 

[ajw22]

You try:

• Industrial chlorine suppliers will sell refillable jugs of chlorine
• Farm & feed stores, Dollar General, cleaning supply warehouses all have some form of liquid chlorine.

Unable to Find Bleach - Further Reading

www.troublefreepool.com

Liquid Chlorine - Further Reading

www.troublefreepool.com

 

[AndyTN]

I went into Walmart this morning to stock up on sunscreen. Right as you walk into the store, they had a shelf with probably 100 gallons of liquid chlorine along with the 13-lb bags of baking soda. I bought 15 gallons to go with the 20 gallons I bought from HD last week. If you live in a metro area with several big box stores close to you, just stop in from time to time to see what they have in stock for bleach/chlorine. Since my local pool store is currently selling 11-lb buckets of trichlor for $70, I will not be using trichlor as supplemental to bleach this year. I have about 10 lbs left from last year which I will only use when I am on vacation.

 

[reggiehammond]

My local Leslie's was out of LC. Manager told me it was not due a chlorine shortage, but that plastic gallon jugs were in short supply and wooden palettes had soared in price.

This is sadly all true.

Wooden pallets are up 4x for us due to lumber prices and supply shortages.

During the Texas freeze in Feb, the large plastic resin plants were shut down. Major implications for cost and availability in all manners of plastics with the polyethylene market not suggested to recover until late 2022.

 

[jimim]

It’s funny pallets is mentioned. I live next to a massive pallet factory. They have millions of them. I also live next to the Azek plant. You should see the material they have. Finally my buddy lives next to 2 lumbar mills. Tons of wood tons. I’m really believing it’s deliveryvtha5 is the issues with a lot of this. From what I hear from a lot of supply houses is you just can’t get material to where it needs to go. A lot less truck drivers and trains running. when I drive by azek everyday I literally laugh at the material. They have machines there right now ripping out woods and grass area to level it out to stack material cause it’s literally falling over how they havecit Piled everywhere.

 

[jmikeb]

my sister in law is starting a slam but only found last years 10% chlorine so far.
anybody have any leads on chlorine availability in atlanta area

mike

 

[21 footer]

doing BBB, i go through quite a bit at open usually in PA. i usually start the season with 10 boxes (40 gal), and that is before covid/shortages. Ollies here limited me to 10 gals (thats where i'd usually stock up at). Pool city limited to 8 gallons.

I think the situation was worse last year when everyone was hording chlorine and toilet paper. You really don't want to buy a whole summer's worth at once anyway, just pick up few jugs when you see a good price.

 

[Sunnydaze]

I guess I'm lucky so far. I haven't had any trouble getting liquid chlorine yet. A couple times, i noticed walmart was out but another WalMart had plenty. Home depot still has full pallets.

 

[Dave1096]

I guess I'm lucky so far. I haven't had any trouble getting liquid chlorine yet. A couple times, i noticed walmart was out but another WalMart had plenty. Home depot still has full pallets.

It must just be a PA thing for some reason. As of yesterday, still no liquid chlorine at HD or Lowes. Didn't check Walmart, but they'd been out for several weeks the last time I looked. Pool store had 12.5% though.

 

[markayash]

I was in a Walmart in SC and noticed they had some but a sign limiting you to 2.

 

[Katodude]

Just go buy one of these. They have models that will produce up to 1000lbs of chlorine gas a day. Keep your pool at SLAM level forever.

Electrochemical Chlorine Generator - Electrochlorination from brine (salt)

Electrochemical Chlorine Generator, Electrochlorination system for production of chlorine and sodium hypochlorite from sodium chloride (salt) on-site

www.dioxide.com

 

[Mdragger88]

Just go buy one of these. They have models that will produce up to 1000lbs of chlorine gas a day. Keep your pool at SLAM level forever.

Electrochemical Chlorine Generator - Electrochlorination from brine (salt)

Electrochemical Chlorine Generator, Electrochlorination system for production of chlorine and sodium hypochlorite from sodium chloride (salt) on-site

www.dioxide.com

I tried to get a quote but all the selections were a little over my head... Its probably one of those things that if you have to ask you can’t afford it

 

[Newdude]

Its probably one of those things that if you have to ask you can’t afford it

No joke when I met my PB last time, he said he could build any pool. This is *exactly* how it went down.

PB: I can build you any pool.
Me : Can I afford a gunite pool ?
PB: No.
Me: Vinyl sounds lovely.

 

[markayash]

I tried to get a quote but all the selections were a little over my head... Its probably one of those things that if you have to ask you can’t afford it

I tried to get a quote but all the selections were a little over my head... Its probably one of those things that if you have to ask you can’t afford it

make sure you get the 480V model

 

[Mdragger88]

I will keep that in mind if i ever upgrade my service to 3 phase

 

[Solidassassin47]

Finally, I got hit with this and purchased about 12 gallons about 2 weeks ago at my local Walmart in NC. Now there is no chlorine at all every bottle is gone no pucks. This mass panic buying is sheer madness if people would stop giving in to all these shortage agendas there would be plenty for everyone. thinks of toilet paper horror stories.

 

[markayash]

Finally, I got hit with this and purchased about 12 gallons about 2 weeks ago at my local Walmart in NC. Now there is no chlorine at all every bottle is gone no pucks. This mass panic buying is sheer madness if people would stop giving in to all these shortage agendas there would be plenty for everyone. thinks of toilet paper horror stories.

Hey I may need these 450 rolls of toilet paper and the 300 gallon jugs of chlorine one day.
Still trying I store the 4500 gallons of gas I bought a few weeks back..

 

[ErniesPool]

I am seeing some outrageous prices on the Internet for liquid chlorine in the DFW area. Some store seem still sold out. Leslie's wants over $6/gallon for theirs. The last I found was 6 months old at Lowe's but I was desperate and bought a few gallons. Does anyone have any suggestions for a stable source of liquid chlorine at the time of major supply chain issues??