Almost done
Jul 11th, 2008 by Jason
Conversion of pool from $Baquagoo$ to BBB.
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Are you really supposed to use normal bleach in a pool? Just what were you doing with that much bleach?
Yeah, regular bleach is pretty much the same as “pool chlorine”, just not as strong (or as expensive).
Check out this flickr slideshow of a guy that finished the conversion of his pool. He had the same problem I did — regardless of how much $$$ in Baquacil products you spent, that stupid green algae starts in a corner and quickly consumes your pool.
http://flickr.com/photos/7860529@N05/sets/72157606063444699/show/
Anyhow, the process initially takes a lot of bleach to shock out the Baquagoo chemicals. After that, maintenance doses to keep everything balance are pretty small.
I read about this on a pretty cool forum called http://www.troublefreepools.com
Basically, you can manage your pool chemicals with pretty much only bleach, borax, and baking soda.
I thought bleach had way more dissolved solids in it, but maybe that is only a problem for spas, where you have way less water. I think you still need to add CYA if your pool gets any sun exposure. I still say a ZN System by Znergy Systems is the best thing to have when you are going with chlorine. But their web site has been non-extistant for a couple years now, and I don’t know of anyone that sells them other than Tsunami Spas. (It’s like the Nature2, http://www.nature2.com/, product but way less expensive in the long run.)
I just assumed you wore a sh$t-ton of white clothes…
Michael — after I recoup some of the money I lost in Baquagoo chemicals, I’ll def. take a look at those systems that help out.
Wolf, .. now, but I now have a shit-ton of work polos that have the occasional small bleach spot (from splatter) on them now. Ugh. I am sofa king.
So far nobody’s died from the switch, and the water is literally 10x more clear (which actually sucks in a way because now I can more easily see debris on the bottom, which means I’m vacuuming more than before .. grrrrr). Scott was sure that his puppy was going to dissolve the first time she jumped in, but all is well.
What Michael isn’t telling you is that our spa (a 550 gallon spa) sat *UNATTENDED* for at least two years, with a collapsing cover, plants growing *out of the cover* at the old house - after we moved. It had water added occassionally, but not a drop of chemicals. It never grew algae due to the ZN device, and the water stayed clear. Sure debris collected in the bottom, but the water was clear. We kept the same shell, and had the spa rebuilt around it. The shell, and border tiles are perfect - so is the sound system ;-). The cedar box is new, and so are the jets and the sound system, which it didn’t have before we rebuilt it. We did have more jets added when we had it rebuilt.