I follow the Trouble Free Pool method for pool maintenance and purchased this 15-gallon tank and Stenner pump for dosing liquid chlorine into the pool. This worked great vs having to pour it everyday and risk spilling chlorine on myself. I recently converted to a Salt Pool so selling my chlorine equipment.

Located in West Houston / Katy and travel to East Texas often.

Asking $400

Any way to use that pump and tank for muriatic acid? You're going to be going through a lot more of that now that you switched over to salt.

I thought about using the pump for that, as my pool has always used a lot of acid. Not sure I want/need 15 gallons of acid sitting around, but could likely find a smaller tank.

just curious, how much chlorine were ytou pumping in per day? i need to get mine dialed in and would love to hear about how much others are using.

Curious do pools nowadays not use the in line chlorine tablets? Or is this method just an option. I only have to add tablets once a week during the summer.

this method keeps the CYA down as too much of it will cause you to have to drain/refill your pool.

Got ya. Guess I've been lucky to never have this issue. Good to know.

It happened on the pool at our current house a few months after we bought it so I switched over.

I use the Pool Math App, which has an "effects of adding" calculator. For my pool I would add around 34 - 51 oz a day to make up 2-3ppm of Chlorine loss. This would fluctuate throughout the summer based on sun and CYA levels.

CYA protects your chlorine but also reduces its effectiveness. Over time, too much CYA will render your Chlorine useless and will cause Algae blooms that you won't be able to fight until you lower your CYA. To lower CYA you have to drain and refill a significant portion of your water, there are no chemicals to reduce CYA.

How much of a footprint will it need for placement? I've look at these before but the area is pretty tight.

Diameter is approx 20 inches.

If this system doesn't work for you, I mounted my pump to the brick siding and got a commercial chemical jug that holds something like 20 gallons. This is a great deal though so you won't have to rig anything up.

BDJ_AG said:

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CYA protects your chlorine but also reduces its effectiveness. Over time, too much CYA will render your Chlorine useless and will cause Algae blooms that you won't be able to fight until you lower your CYA. To lower CYA you have to drain and refill a significant portion of your water, there are no chemicals to reduce CYA.

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I've had my pool for 10+ years and had it installed but have never had any algae growth and the chlorine has always been stable. Always used chlorine tablets and have always tested all the levels with the trouble free pool site as well. My pool is pretty simple with not a lot of bells and whistles and not a lot of trees around, so that may. help as well.

Trying to keep this thread to the classified

But it begs the question, what's your cya level

No press is bad press??? The derail doesn't bother me at all

Cya is around 40.

Yeah not trying to discourage this sale just more out of curiosity.

I'll take it. I'm in Katy as well. Shoot me an email (in my profile) and we can figure out a spot to meet. Thanks.

Email sent.

BDJ_AG said:

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I use the Pool Math App, which has an "effects of adding" calculator. For my pool I would add around 34 - 51 oz a day to make up 2-3ppm of Chlorine loss. This would fluctuate throughout the summer based on sun and CYA levels.

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ETA my pool is 25k gallons.

How big is your pool and how much shade does it get? I have a massive sun shade awning I will be putting up this week to tamp down on the chlorine loss and keep my pool cool.

16.5k gallons. Only 5.5 feet deep in the middle. I get full sun. Curious on your shade solution as that is on my to do list.

Nice set up. Would've snagged it if it was available in DFW.

I've got a balcony and a covered patio and a tree so I string up a large shade sail over the shallow end of the pool. I think ours is 8 feet deep at the deep end. It's big and it's old. The way the house kij s up with the tree and covered patio I can anchor everything tightly and keep the shade nice and taut with a bit of an angle. It would work with some 4x4 posts set in the ground as well.

I wish I had seen this yesterday. If the sale falls through, I'll take it.

SOLD

What pump do you use? I'm tired of lugging chlorine jugs and bending over the pool dump them and getting chlorine on my clothes.

I stenner very similar to the one in the OP but I forget the specifics of it. Bought it on eBay.