The easiest way is to use 4 lb of non-chlorine shock. Hatawa
what chemicals are needed for starting up a 20x48 intex above ground pool
20 x 48 = 960 square feet.
Cannot be answered without knowing the shallow and deep end depths.
Backwash first then shock. If you shock and then backwash you will be throwing away the shock you just put.
The pool is 20*48*4 = 3840 cubic feet. And 1 cubic foot is about 7.48 gallons, so total the pool can hold 28723.2 gallons.
3800 gals of pool water shock it with 1 gal bleach
There is chlorine shock and non chlorine shock. Fo chlorine shock, which is the normal shock, it is the same a s Chlorine but unstabilized, so it will not last in the pool very long.
You do not need to remove it.
To shock a pool is to effectively increase the chlorine dosage to the max in order to exterminate a bacterial or algae problem.
No, pool shock is normally a really strong chlorine and stabilizer is like sunscreen for the chlorine
shock it
Salt pools still require weekly shock maintenance, but not near the amount that a chlorine pool would need. There are Salt Pool Shock Treatments out there for your particular pool setup.