I fired my pool guy about 6 months ago as he had allowed CYA levels to get too high and the pool was turning green.
I drained the pool and started again and its going quite well (pool water is clear and nice to swim in). I've been using household bleach for chlorination and just add more every time the level gets to 2.5 or so. I have 2 concerns about using bleach. 1) I live in SoCal where the temperatures are in mid-nineties most days (at the moment) and so I get thru a lot of bleach and find buying it from the store and storing it in the house is a bit of a pain and 2) It is very hard to know the strength of the bleach you are buying. Most bleaches don't show their Sodium hypochlorite levels and even when they do you don't the age and storage history of the product. Sometimes I get the feeling I am adding a lot of bleach and its not shifting the Chlorine level much.
For these reasons I have been considering switching to Power Powder Plus/Pro which looks like it would avoid these issues. In addition as you can get 50LBs delivered for $199 my back-of the-envelope calculations indicate its probably cheaper than household bleach.
My concern is about Calcium Hardness levels. Leslie's site says that this product will increase it. I just measured my CH and it came out at about 320. Given that this is at the high end of normal should I avoid Power Powder Plus/Pro and stick with bleach ? Are there any other options ?
Any help appreciated!
I drained the pool and started again and its going quite well (pool water is clear and nice to swim in). I've been using household bleach for chlorination and just add more every time the level gets to 2.5 or so. I have 2 concerns about using bleach. 1) I live in SoCal where the temperatures are in mid-nineties most days (at the moment) and so I get thru a lot of bleach and find buying it from the store and storing it in the house is a bit of a pain and 2) It is very hard to know the strength of the bleach you are buying. Most bleaches don't show their Sodium hypochlorite levels and even when they do you don't the age and storage history of the product. Sometimes I get the feeling I am adding a lot of bleach and its not shifting the Chlorine level much.
For these reasons I have been considering switching to Power Powder Plus/Pro which looks like it would avoid these issues. In addition as you can get 50LBs delivered for $199 my back-of the-envelope calculations indicate its probably cheaper than household bleach.
My concern is about Calcium Hardness levels. Leslie's site says that this product will increase it. I just measured my CH and it came out at about 320. Given that this is at the high end of normal should I avoid Power Powder Plus/Pro and stick with bleach ? Are there any other options ?
Any help appreciated!