How often should you add liquid chorine and shock your pool and are tablets good enough?

Answer 1

Whatever type of chlorine you use (liquid, tablets, granular) you must add sufficient, on a regular basis, to maintain a residual of 'free-and-available' chlorine in the water at all times. You measure this with a normal pool test kit. You only need to shock the pool if there are 'combined-chlorine' present (this you also determine with a normal pool test kit). Shock chemicals will have doseage instructions on the container. -residual' in the pool (1-2ppm is common). A salt (saline) system will produce the sanitizer you require, automatically, from a mild level of ordinary salt dissolved in the pool water - so you will not need to add chlorine, shock or algaecide.

Shock your pool when your pool needs it, not because it's Saturday.

Test for chloramines by using a Taylor DPD test kit. If the chloramines are above .6, then shock. Keep your tab feeder or floater full at all times, especially in the Summer. Never put tabs in the skimmer.

Answer 2

im a pool owner and from my experience,chlorine burns off fast by the sun and i tried liquid then had my water tested and it showed no chlorine.and after many trips to leslies pool supply and talking to other pool owners in there.i now use tablets that float and 1 bag of shoker each week.

This is a subject I love to talk about. Why do you shock? Everyone shocks their pool, right?

Listen very carefully. Shocking does rid your pool of bacteria, but the main reason to shock is to get rid of your chloramines. This is organic matter floating in the pool that the chlorine is trying to kill or has killed already.

Get a good DPD, not an OTO test kit, and test for chlormines. If they're .8 and above, then shock, otherwise, you're just making the chemical companies more money.

Having a properly balanced pool is not difficult, but it does take work.

I'm the pool operator at our local YMCA and keeping an 80,000 gallon pool balanced is pretty easy, once you all the elements in place and know what you're doing.

Chlorine 3.5-4.5, alkalinity 80-100, pH 7.6-7.8, not 7.2, hardness 150-250, not up to 400.

You have to stay on top of it because the chlorine can go down in a matter of hours if no one properly checks it.

Just be sure your getting the right info. The index most pool operators use comes from public water systems, not from pools.

Shock when your pools needs it, not because it's Saturday.

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Answer 3

yes you can bleach the liner or concrete and it can become very dangerous if someone was to go swimming

Answer 4

it depends on how much chlorine is already in it .