Just Liquid Chlorine

[Chemchallenge]

Are some of you just using liquid chlorine (no powdered shock). Is there a benefit to just liquid and no hyper chlorite or powdered shock?

 

[PoolStored]

Are some of you just using liquid chlorine (no powdered shock). Is there a benefit to just liquid and no hyper chlorite or powdered shock?

The majority of member use just liquid chlorine or a Salt Water Chlorine generator.

There are two types of "shock" dichlor/tri-chlor (which has CYA) and cal-hypo (which has calcium). Depending on the type of pool and your needs, they are viable tools. But adding CYA and/or CH can raise their respective test results. The only way to remove them, if your CYA or CH gets too high, is to drain/replace water. Certainly not troublefree.

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[JJ_Tex]

Yep, liquid chlorine is preferred since it only has chlorine in it.

Cal Hypo (usually a powder) contains calcium which can build up in your water and lead to white scale on your tile
Trichlor (usually pucks) contain CYA which can build up in your water and skyrocket your chlorine demand

Both CYA and Calcium are needed in pools, but people tend to just blindly use those products which leads to issues down the road requiring water exchanges/draining to fix. Save the powders and pucks for times like vacations when you cannot add liquid chlorine on a regular basis.

 

[V___25]

Yup, liquid chlorine only. I don't have a SWG so lugging jugs it is!