Common Household POOL CHEMICALS?

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Have you ever wondered if you have to use chemicals to clean your pool? Some products you find at your local grocery store can do just as good a job as the products marketed specifically for pool cleaning, which can save you quite a bit of money.

⏰ Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction to Common Household Pool Cleaning Chemicals
00:32 - How To Use Baking Soda To Clean Your Pool
01:12 - How To Use Bleach To Clean Your Pool
02:38 - Pool Care Video Course
03:16 - How To Use Muriatic Acid To Clean Your Pool
04:21 - How To Use Borate or Borax To Clean Your Pool

[BuY_tha_dRIP]

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[sporktek]

Sodium hypochlorite is sodium hypochlorite. In the fall when all the pool chemicals go on clearance, I buy the gallons of pool chlorine for using in laundry. It's just a higher concentration, so you use less in the wash than you would normally put in.

[k-leeatwell-stoltz]

Thank you for your videos. I follow your advice and my pool that is used almost daily by multiple people is always clear. I brush it several times a week, shock every Sunday evening. Check levels 2x a week, keep it covered when not in use. Bought a skimmer and hand skim daily. I recently put tennis balls in to soak up the oils. Works amazingly well.

[frostbitecra]

I’m Completely new at this. I find your videos extremely helpful.

[rickwashek]

I know alot of people say bleach is cheaper than liquid, But not really Clorox has only about 5% sodium hyperchlorite. Pool esentials at Walmart has 10% for 3.64 a gallon. So Clorox you need twice as much. 🤓

[rong]

I had a pool for years and used common bleach and nothing else, worked great with the right amount

[livingsimply]

I subscribed to your channel after watching this video. Thank you so much!! You're my go to guy for pool care. This bleach, borax, & baking soda video is the best, most informative on YouTube.

[kennethreid]

Informative, as always, but one major point that was left out regarding boric acid is that it can be used to stabilize pH. That's very significant for those of us who have salt chlorine generators.

[ashleyholdreith]

Your videos have been extremely helpful!! We just put ours up one week ago by getting lucky at Walmart with the last one the shelf. Chemicals have been hard to find also! So now knowing I can do with household items will be extremely helpful!!

[chrisbethsepulveda]

This was really helpful since I bought my pool during quarantine. It was a real mission getting it in the first place and impossible to get products for it. So thank you !

[ed]

One thing to mention - the amount of bleach to add would depend on the CYA level in your pool (stabilizer). “Stabilizer” or CYA (Cyanuric Acid) acts as “sun screen” for your chlorine (sodium hypochlorite / bleach). You need a proper pool test kit to test CYA, but if the level is high, you’re going to need more than 1 gallon per 10, 000 gallons of water to reach the desired chlorine ppm level to kill any algae.

[megpie]

My pool is light green, What do I use first? I have testing kit! So I test than what would I do next ? On chemicals? First time pool owner, Pool above ground and is a intex pool, Don't know where to start, I would say chlorine is low to begin with.Someone please help ? Haven't seen my grandson in 3 years and my family are having a pool party on Saturday so I need to get the pool cleaned fast. Thank you for your help 🙏.

[desperadopharaoh]

I looked at liquid chlorine and it's the same as bleach on the bottle and same for the Alkalinity powder to Baking soda I was like huh? The pool store is robbing us lol

[suebisbee]

Hi What do you think about using ionized copper as a disinfectent in the pool?

[Abbyminifun]

Bacon Soda. Ha ha ha. Great video, thanks.

[chrisputnam]

Ugh....went on vacation for a week and all it did here at home was rain rain rain. My pool has been green since before i came home (5 days ago) and ive managed to lighten the color but its still green! I guess I'll try straight bleach tonight and see if thats the final blow. Ive already added the chloriator liquid with algaecide in it, and ive shocked it 3 times. 😒 All levels were good last i checked them except for an obvious high chlorine level.

[mariarobinson]

Can you mix bleach and baking soda together

[nota_verygood_huntingchannel]

Thanks for this, i knew the baking soda trick but the borax for ph will help me out huge from now on!

[killinkittyzDD]

I have a 79 gal kiddie pool…

What is the proper measurements of bleach and baking soda to use? Peas and thank you for any advice ♥️

[jonathansancho]

Should definitely be the face of pools period. Like a mr.clean of pools idk but dude start making products il bias buy your products I swear!