Can Bleach Be Used In Swimming Pools?

If you have a pool in your backyard, like me, you may have recently found it very hard to get chlorine tablets. Luckily you can add bleach but you may have found that the chlorine from the bleach is not lasting very long. This is because UV light breaks down chlorine very readily. Chlorine tablets are stabilized with Cyanuric Acid or chlorine stabilizer but bleach is not. To prevent the chlorine from rapidly oxidizing or breaking down from the sunlight, you will need to add a Cyanuric acid in the form of chlorine stabilizer. This seems to be available at most major retailers and can get you out of a pinch when you are unable to find chlorine tablets. The amount of bleach that you should add to your pool is 1/4 cup per 1000 gallons per 1 ppm that you are trying to increase the chlorine content. You should target 1-3 ppm free chlorine to prevent algae and bacterial growth.
The pool that I have is an Intex Easy Pool Set, 10-Feet x 30-Inch. This will be very similar to the Summer Waves 10ft x 30in Quick Set Inflatable Above Ground Pool with Filter Pump. If you have either of these pools, I would recommend upgrading the pump to at least a 1000gph pump like the Intex Krystal Clear Cartridge Filter Pump for Above Ground Pools, 1000 GPH Pump Flow Rate, 110-120V with GFCI

[@jsilva2158]

In Arizona we have way to much chlorine. Stores have pallets full of buckets more then usual. But some how the PRICE is double 🤔 it seems like a move just to get prices up. Everytime there's a "shortage" people buys more🧐.

[@HavokBWR]

Awesome! I bought one of the like 40 gallon Japanese soaking tubs and ive been using it as a hot tub, heating up water with a submersible heater and adding that to the tub as the temps drop. Was wasting a lot of water refilling it after every soak. looks like 1 tsp of bleach will do the trick.

[@robertb8629]

Is this still necessary to these amounts if you have a pump moving the water regularly at night? W filter?

[@K9G_3828]

Or pour at night so you don't have to worry about sun.

[@CoolStuffGuysLike]

Yep pouring the chlorine (bleach) at night is ideal if you are shocking the pool. You will have to do it every night though if you don't have stabilizer since it will be gone by about three hours after sunrise the next day. That also leaves the pool a little vulnerable for an algae to establish itself since for most of the day it will have very little or no chlorine.

[@dezaraenewbill406]

@@CoolStuffGuysLike at 1:00am I poured 96 ounces of bleach in my 1,400 gallon pool is it safe to swim? 😣😖😖

[@keithjohnso3904]

@@dezaraenewbill406 wow thats enough bleach for a 30,000 gallon pool! I wouldn't smim in that for a week if you value your life.

[@wildwaymonee8o8]

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[@dr.awkward9075]

So, 3/4 cup of bleach per every 1000 gallons to raise to 3 ppm?
Another video said 1/4 cup for every 50 gallons. Which one is right? 🤷‍♂

[@Barbiedoll99999]

I would say TRIAL & ERROR

[@cindymunroe8522]

IM TERRIFIED AND CRYING...THERE WAS A BOAT MAN BUG I COULDNT DREAM OF AN UGLIER BUG!!!!!WHAT DO I DO.?