stebrow283

I really appreciate the answer. So I set up the hot tub and started adding the dichlor. I had to go out of town for the night but my mother in law added it twice more for me. I need to get the 6 way test kit (I have a 4 way right now) but the test strips I have show the CA a pretty low still. The Chlorine is pretty off the chart as for the test strips and the test kit I have since both really only show to 10. I just keep adding the dichlor until it gets to about 30 right and then I let the Chlorine level drop a bit so we can actually get in I assume? Then use the 6% unscented bleach as described above like Nitro says in his post. The PH and the TA look great. I need to add more calcium still since I added it and then we left.

I have read and reread the dichlor method by Nitro. I feel like I understand the method. Once I get my CYA and free chlorine level up to the right level I switch to 6% unscented bleach. Does this mean household liquid bleach like you buy at the grocery store? I have a pool that I maintain fairly well for our short Oregon summer and we just recently purchased a hot tub. It is an older tub and the people that had it before us used Baqua. Count me in as hating Baqua as of now (I guess time will tell if I like dichlor/ bleach method better). We have drained the but and ran the cleaner through it, cleaned the filters and refilled the tub. I am adding the metal and stain control since we know we have really high metal in our water. Do I bring the ph and calcium to the right levels before I add the dichlor? I guess that makes two questions. I know in the pool you should make sure those are the right levels first. I figured we would have to switch to chlorine because that is what the pool is and the kids go back and forth. I think this caused a pretty bad chemical goo reaction as soon as the nice days hit and we opened up the pool.