Opening Pool - Stabilized and Unstabilized Chlorine

[Noreaster]

Wait, how is it i have been pool owner and lurking here for 17 years and i am just now learning that trichlor mixed with cal hypo goes bang? Holy Crud!

 

[Newdude]

Wait, how is it i have been pool owner and lurking here for 17 years and i am just now learning that trichlor mixed with cal hypo goes bang? Holy Crud!

Because you thankfully never mixed them, even with a trace of residue in the bucket, before you learned. Well done.

An IRL buddy learned the hard way. He had calhypo and dumped it in an old tab bucket (or vice versa) and walked away from it in the yard. 5 mins later the boom called him back and there was a small creator and a 5 ft burn radius. Had he been there he would have at least been hit with bucket shrapnel, maybe burned also.