May 15, 2009 · Yes, in certain situations you can regularly use both. The pool owner though has to understand what the tablets might do to your water balance - tablets add CYA and overtime, especially if you also use a powdered shock called Dichlor- your CYA can get too high, leading to many problems. Tablets are also acidic and overtime can lower your PH.

Dec 25, 2014 · Costco in Suffolk County New York yesterday received hundreds of HTH 3 inch chlorine tablets that they are selling for $164.99 for a 37.5 pound bucket. That is $4.40 per pound. Amazon is selling the same thing for $237 which is $6 per pound. The Costco SKU number is 1625066. Costco will accept unused buckets for a full refund at the end of the ...

May 17, 2015 · That's why a lot of the all in one type of approaches (pucks) are hard to deal with because they're doing more than just adding chlorine to your pool. Bleach on the other hand will only add chlorine and a touch of salt which is good anyway. No mysteries when all the components of your chemical balancing are ala cart.

Jun 14, 2017 · For sanitizing pool water, the Trouble Free Pool water maintenance plan strongly favors bleach/liquid chlorine over chlorinating tablets. There are situations where tablets are OK for brief usage, but many pool owners get into trouble using tablets indiscriminately for too long of a time -- this leads to algae blooms.

Apr 22, 2023 · Since I took over pool care last August (had a pool company for 3 months when we first bought our home), I completely stopped using chlorine pucks due to high CYA (70 at the time) and switched to liquid chlorine. Now my CYA needs to be raised (currently 30), and the previous owner left me A HUGE container of pucks.

May 1, 2019 · While talking about chlorine understand, chlorine is chlorine is chlorine. The chlorine in bleach is the same chlorine in the 3" tabs and is the same chlorine that is produced by a salt water chlorine generator (SWCG). They are just different methods of adding the chlorine to you pool water. So, TFP is not "against" anything - it's "for" knowledge.

Jan 7, 2011 · I have had 3 pucks in since a week ago today and added 2 more 2 days later and I am still getting the .5-1 reading when I test. I am adding liquid chlorine in as well ( started 3 days ago) but without much if any CYA in the pool right now, it evaporates pretty quickly. Seems I am putting 1 96 oz bottle in every day since to maintain around FC 3.

May 28, 2010 · Also, I'm curious to know how much of each people use on a week to week basis. I realize that it would be different for any given pool based on a variety of things, but I'm still curious on what people are using and how much. I've been 'recommended' to use about 1 jug (2.5 gal / yellow jugs) of liquid chlorine and 2 tablets per week for my pool.

Apr 27, 2021 · Hi everyone, just wanted to give a quick PSA to those who are using Clorox's XtraBlu line chemicals for their pool. I've been using the product lime, specifically the chlorine tablets for around 3 years and really haven't had any issues, but for those unaware, they contain a pretty high amount...

May 25, 2011 · If you can get the chlorine taken care of for the most part by using the floater or automatic, then they won't have to do too much testing or dumping of bleach for you. A week of using tablets ought to not make that much difference …