Chemical storage & rust

[SomePoolGuy]

Last year, I moved my pool chemicals to my garage. By the end of the summer, I noticed everything had rusted over in my garage. I’ve decided it was the poor chemicals and nothing else.

Can anybody confirm this?

If not a garage, where do folks store their chemicals?

 

[mknauss]

Chemical Storage and Safety - Further Reading

www.troublefreepool.com

 

[ajw22]

If not a garage, where do folks store their chemicals?

It is the muriatic acid that is causing the rusting.

I store muriatic acid outside in a storage bin. Liquid chlorine and stabilizer stay in the garage.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Keep the acid and the chlorine separated by a wall - meaning acid outside and chlorine inside so you don't poison yourself or cause a fire in your garage.

 

[SomePoolGuy]

Thanks everyone. This makes sense. I’ll bought muratic acid in August

 

[AUSpool]

I’ve always kept my acid (muriatic) in my outdoor pool equipment enclosure. I had small amounts of bicarb, calcium chloride, stabaliser and some granulated trichlor in a laundry cupboard. All the hinges in that cupboard rusted out. They were kitchen cabinet style hinges. I blamed the trichlor. It took awhile, the trichlor was there for ages, being used now and then to sanitise the drains.

 

[Mdragger88]

I keep my muriatic acid on the top of a wire shelf outside under my patio that otherwise holds gardening supplies.
I only need it for my hot tub. If I used it frequently for the pool I would probably have it in its own plastic bucket with a lid underneath the deck away from the lc and the pool wall.
I used to store it on top of my outside freezer and it rusted the top. After repairing/repainting that I purchased the shelf to accommodate everything in one place.
2-4 Liquid chlorine (2.5 gal carboys) stay under my pool deck in the shade year round. They are generally empty in the winter.
I have a small plastic coffee can for a few tabs In my bucket of stuff under the deck.
I keep a 1 gal or smaller jug of bleach/lc under my patio table in the shade for my hot tub.
Large bucket of trichlor (a gift), xtra salt, boric acid & cya are in a wooden shed on my property as they aren’t needed often.
I maybe open/unscrew that trichlor bucket lid once a year to get enough to fill the plastic coffee can for peak summer/vacation. I’ve not noticed any detrimental effects.
I had a friend that used trichlor exclusively for chlorination (pucks & weekly shock- poolstored) and he stored everything in a metal shed - that thing got soooo rusted out inside. You could smell the trichlor when you walked in. If I recall they had to replace it to sell their house.

 

[SomePoolGuy]

Sorry for the late reply. Thanks!!