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Standard laundry bleach works fine in a pool. You should be sure to get plain bleach, not scented. The chemical in bleach is exactly the same as the chemical in pool chlorine but is generally about half the concentration. Most bleach is 6% sodium hypochlorite while chlorine for pools is 10-12%. So generally you would use about twice as much bleach as chlorine. The amount you add must be determined using a test kit to determine your current level of chlorine. An online calculator to use to determine the amount of bleach to add is at http://www.poolcalculator.com. As an example, if you have 0 ppm chlorine now and want to raise it to 4 ppm in a 23000 gallon pool, you would need to add 196 ounces (about 1-1/2 gallons) of bleach. For more help maintaining your pool using standard products like bleach, baking soda, and borax, search on "bbb method."

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Never pour bleach into a swimming pool unless you are closing it for the winter. Usually the bleach will kill most things that try to grow in it during it's closed state, however, bleach will literally bleach a nice blue vinyl liner light-blue and eventually weaken the liner. The regular "chlorine" used in pools is NOT bleach, it's a chemical called "chloramide" which is more safe to use when humans are swimming in the pool.

No such word exists; chloramide. A minor part of the statement above may be true. Bleach - the household laundry product - 5% has 95 % inert ingredients. Swimming pool chlorine - 12% - nearly 100% pure chlorine. With that said -- what do you think is going to sanitize your pool better -- the low grade laundry product or the better quality product? Which of the two products will you have to use to do the job right? You are going to have to use 4 to 8 times more of the 5% product to achieve what the 12% product will. If used indescriminantly even the lesser grade 5% product will "bleach" out a liner as will the sun. I for one would not want to swim in the above person's pool at any time.

The statement, too, that the bleach will kill most things trying to grow in the water -- that is precisely why you add chlorine to a pool. I bet the statement, if read by the health department, would make them cringe and shudder.

If, by the word chloramide you mean chloramines then you are again making a false statement. Chloramines are contaminants combined with chlorine that give you that chlorine smell near the pool. This is a strong indication that you DO NOT --DO NOT have sufficient chlorine in the pool. You need to add more chlorine to oxidize those contaminents. That is also why they have test kits! The above stating you would have to use 4 to 8 times more of the 5% product than the 12% product makes no sense. It's a little closer to 2.2 times. The laundry product is no different than the liquid chlorinator at a pool supply store it's just less concentrated. To refer to it as "the low grade laundry product" vs. "the better quality product" is misleading as it's the same sodium hypochlorite in both.

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One half teaspoon of non scented regular bleach will sanitize 5 gals of water. If the water is cloudy, it is safe to double the recommended amount. Now for the pool size ? you do the math. . . :}

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It is not recommended to put bleach in a pool at all. You put chlorine in them.

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The amount of bleach you add per gallon of water to a swimming pool depends on the size of the pool. For a small wading pool that is up to 100 gallons you would add 1/8th of a cup of bleach.

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