Can i use chlorine bleach in my pool?
No. Answer My father used to do that; not terribly effective. You will end up with green water that needs to be replaced–more costly than getting the proper chemicals to begin with. ======================================== Actually, you can. Tens of thousands of PoolForum.com and TroubleFreePool.com users have been doing so, many for more than 10 years. And many, many thousands of pools in S. Florida are maintained with bleach by pool service guys. Bleach is just a sodium hypochlorite solutions, like “HTH” is just a calcium hypochlorite powder. Both add chlorine to whatever water they are put in; but simply putting ‘some’ in will not guarantee good results. Household bleach, typically 6% (check the bottle!), or commercial ‘liquid chlorine’, 10, 12, or 15%, can both be used. But if you aren’t going to hire a service guy to do it for you, you should go to one of the two sites mentioned, to learn how. PoolSpaForum.com, Havuz.org and Gardenweb sometimes have posters advocate bleach use, or the BBB Method, but it’s not consistent at those sites. For obvious reasons, pool store employees don’t think that grocery store bleach is a good idea!