10 years ago I had an above ground pool installed that was secondhand. The previous owner used salt to chlorinate the pool so I followed suit and did as well. Back then I had read up on sanitation methods here and I like the idea of salt and the lack of time involved, as well as the cost savings. Unfortunately, I had to replace the pool because it was full of holes from rust. I can only assume it was from using salt for its entire life plus it was 25 years old.
We took down the rust bucket and just had a brand new and much larger pool installed. 12x20 up to 15x26 steel above ground pool. I went into this purchase with the abandonment of salt in mind and full reliance on chlorine and chemicals instead… at least for this year.
I really wanted to put my full faith in the pool store and their recommendations for water sanitation but after getting the prescription, I can already see this isn’t going to work.
The store that sold me the pool gave me a bunch of startup chemicals and a laundry list of things to add to my water quite frankly I’ve never dealt with before with the salt pool.
1. Power gran which is just a granulated tricolo-s-triazinrtrione and I assume any chlorine puck could replace it.
2. Green away which is sodium discolor -s- triazinetrione. No idea what this is.
3. Super algaecide
4. “After shock” doesn’t actually list the ingredients.
They also gave me the generic pH up pH down stuff and a winterization kit.
So here’s my actual questions.
1. Do I need to add all this stuff to my water as listed in the opening chemical dosage guide? See attached
2. this power gran needs to be added every day or as needed which means I have to test my pool water every day and see if it needs chlorine. Wouldn’t it be more time efficient to just use chlorine pucks and a floater and test every few days or so?
3. I asked the salesman what I should do a if I plan on going away on vacation and he said to add 4lbs of Greenaway before we go. To me, it would make more sense just again to have a chlorinating tablet with a floater while we’re gone to maintain levels. He said the Greenway won’t ruin the liner like a heavy dosing of chlorine would. My previous liner did not look very good when we took it down so I’m trying to avoid any mistakes I made there that may have caused that’s
4. I understand the concept of stabilizer and CYA. Do they make chlorine tablets that do not contain stabilizer so that I can just add or build up my CYA to a functioning level and just maintain or am I trapped in a loop of dumping pool water once a year which is what the sales rep said to do.
I know enough to know that the sales rep is not giving me any help as to the most efficient and way to maintain a pool and it’s just trying to sell me chemicals but not enough to come up with a solid plan yet.
Any thoughts are appreciated.
We took down the rust bucket and just had a brand new and much larger pool installed. 12x20 up to 15x26 steel above ground pool. I went into this purchase with the abandonment of salt in mind and full reliance on chlorine and chemicals instead… at least for this year.
I really wanted to put my full faith in the pool store and their recommendations for water sanitation but after getting the prescription, I can already see this isn’t going to work.
The store that sold me the pool gave me a bunch of startup chemicals and a laundry list of things to add to my water quite frankly I’ve never dealt with before with the salt pool.
1. Power gran which is just a granulated tricolo-s-triazinrtrione and I assume any chlorine puck could replace it.
2. Green away which is sodium discolor -s- triazinetrione. No idea what this is.
3. Super algaecide
4. “After shock” doesn’t actually list the ingredients.
They also gave me the generic pH up pH down stuff and a winterization kit.
So here’s my actual questions.
1. Do I need to add all this stuff to my water as listed in the opening chemical dosage guide? See attached
2. this power gran needs to be added every day or as needed which means I have to test my pool water every day and see if it needs chlorine. Wouldn’t it be more time efficient to just use chlorine pucks and a floater and test every few days or so?
3. I asked the salesman what I should do a if I plan on going away on vacation and he said to add 4lbs of Greenaway before we go. To me, it would make more sense just again to have a chlorinating tablet with a floater while we’re gone to maintain levels. He said the Greenway won’t ruin the liner like a heavy dosing of chlorine would. My previous liner did not look very good when we took it down so I’m trying to avoid any mistakes I made there that may have caused that’s
4. I understand the concept of stabilizer and CYA. Do they make chlorine tablets that do not contain stabilizer so that I can just add or build up my CYA to a functioning level and just maintain or am I trapped in a loop of dumping pool water once a year which is what the sales rep said to do.
I know enough to know that the sales rep is not giving me any help as to the most efficient and way to maintain a pool and it’s just trying to sell me chemicals but not enough to come up with a solid plan yet.
Any thoughts are appreciated.
