Can anyone tell me if it is OK to leave pool shock, chlorine tablets, baking soda, and a bag of powdered stabilizer in a deck box outside for the winter in NY? Will that be OK with the cold and can they all be stored in the same deck box?
Storage of pool chemicals for the winter
- Thread starter ChrissyRa
- Start date
- Jun 1, 2018
- 14,041
- Pool Size
- 26000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
What actual product is the “pool shock”?
Is it powdered cal hypo, trichlor or dichlor or is it liquid chlorine?
Is it powdered cal hypo, trichlor or dichlor or is it liquid chlorine?
- Jun 1, 2018
- 14,041
- Pool Size
- 26000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
- Jun 1, 2018
- 14,041
- Pool Size
- 26000
- Surface
- Vinyl
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
You should store different chlorine types separately because if they mix accidentally (even in their dry form) it can cause a violent explosion.
The stabilizer & baking soda are fine. I keep my stabilizer in my deck box year round. I keep baking soda in the house cause I never need it for the pool.
Perhaps place the two different chlorine types inside of their own sealed supplemental containers if you want to keep them in the same deck box. Never store acid (dry or Muriatic) in the same enclosed space as any type of chlorine.