I have a 5500 gallon easy set pool that I just put up this past month.. and money is starting to get tight for me. I was wondering if anyone has had any success with using dollar store household chlorine bleach in there pool of similar size and what it cost them. I used it in my kids pools in the past ..and yes a pool professional recomended it. Please don't just say it will be too expensive.. I want people to answer whom have actually done this to save money.
Chlorine whether pool or laundry beach is sodium hypochlorite and is identical except for strength, 1.25%/6% or 12.5%. Some dimestore bleach is 1.25% and no value at all since you have to buy more of it (4.8 times and 10 times) to get the hypochlorite needed to raise the water to 1-3ppm max of 5 levels. You get what you pay for.
But if you want to figure how much hypochlorite you are buying to see who is selling at the best price then I'm all ears!
5,500 gallons for 1ppm free chlorine add 6.13oz of 12.5% sodium hypochlorite, pool chlorine or 14.08oz of 5%.
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