re: Anyone know of a place that carries liquid chlorine for pools in Nola?

I would look around online you might be able to find a better deal. I think you could find something in the 10-15% chlorinated range.

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this isn't a very good deal unless i plugged something in wrong...

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, not sure where to start.

A) The Amazon chlorine is in ounces, not fluid ounces.

B) The Walmart bleach is 3.6% available chlorine. The Amazon chlorine is 70% AC. You need to use the AC when comparing sodium hypochlorite (59.3% active chlorine) to calcium hypochlorite (99.2% active chlorine).

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i literally dump a gallon in each evening (because you do it in the morning and the sun will burn out the bleach)

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Holy shite. You running a stabilizer in your pool? There’s no way you need that much bleach with a stabilizer in your pool. Get your stabilizer at 50 ppm and you’ll be lucky if you add a gallon of bleach within a couple of weeks.

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A) The Amazon chlorine is in ounces, not fluid ounces.

B) The Walmart bleach is 3.6% available chlorine. The Amazon chlorine is 70% AC. You need to use the AC when comparing sodium hypochlorite (59.3% active chlorine) to calcium hypochlorite (99.2% active chlorine).

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how do you arrive at 3.6%? i see 6% on the walmart website now so i can confirm thats what is in the bottle.

what would you plug into that calculator to get a more accurate result?

not trying to mislead anyone, i just thought you plugged in the % sodium hydroclorite per size/ounces to get that result.

Tabs probably aren’t gonna get your levels up enough, at least they don’t in my pool. Get some CYA and add it through your skimmer. You can use poolcalculator.com and input your current CYA PPM level based off your pool volume and it will tell you how much you need to add to get it to your desired level.

A gallon of bleach a day is insane.

ETA: Just bought the 4 lb thing of Clorox stabilizer from Lowe’s.

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how do you arrive at 3.6%? i see 6% on the walmart website now so i can confirm thats what is in the bottle. what would you plug into that calculator to get a more accurate result? not trying to mislead anyone, i just thought you plugged in the % sodium hydroclorite per size/ounces to get that result.

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You need to figure the available chlorine. sodium hypochlorite is essentially 60%, so 60%*6% = 3.6% for bleach. That's the percentage by weight, and a gallon of residential bleach has a specific gravity of about 1.08, meaning it weights about 8.64 pounds. 3.6% of 8.64 pounds is .311 pounds, or ~5 oz. Looks like you're paying about $.354/oz of available chlorine if you can get the bleach for $1.77. The price is $2.60 on WalMart's website, however, which is $.52/oz.

This stuff seems pretty popular on Amazon - LINK

It works out to $.40/oz. Seems to have some added benefits too.

ETA - The calculator works fine if you're using fluid oz for everything and you're using the available chlorine percentage, not just the active ingredient percentage. Using the calculator for products that are measured by mass rather than volume requires more converting.