Is It Safe To Use Regular Bleach To Clean Your Pool Water?
May 3rd, 2010
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Is It Safe To Use Regular Bleach To Clean Your Pool Water?
I was just at the grocery store and this lady and her daughter were buying 12 bottlesof giant sized bleach and they were telling the cashier how they just discovered a cheap way to clean their pool out as opposed to using the ‘expensive’ shock treatment that are required to keep your pool water clear.
Is that safe? I heard it was dangerous and bad for your skin.
The cashier also told me a story about a woman who came in and said that a cheap solution to cleaning out your pool was to use ammonia. I’m pretty sure THAT is extremely dangerous.
I wish people would get pools because they afford them and not to just look cool. Pools are expensive to maintain.
We had a house with a built in pool and I know how expensive keeping it up during the summer months can be, but when we didn’t afford to clean it that just meant we weren’t going to be swimming.
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9 Responses to “Is It Safe To Use Regular Bleach To Clean Your Pool Water?”
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No it is not true…and quite dangerous. You cannot use regular household bleach or ammonia. It would "eat" at your skin and also "eat" at the walls of your pool.
I have a pool and if I could not afford to maintain it I would empty it and put the cover over it. Having anyone swim in a pool that someone "cleaned" with either Clorox or ammonia is dangerous and I wouldn’t to have any part of it. Just read the "warning" label on the side of a bottle of bleach and then imagine swimming in a pool that has had 12 bottles of bleach dumped into it!!!
Foolish and unwise!!!
Bleach would work. Don’t forget that pretty much anything you put in your pool would be denatured by the ultra-violet fairly quickly. 12 bottles of bleach is a very low concentration in an average home pool.
I don’t see the point in people getting pools simply because they can afford them. Surely people should get a pool installed because they are too afraid of the rest of humanity to use a public pool?
Yeah, that is pretty dangerous to use chlorine bleach to clean your pool. I agree that if you cannot afford to have a pool cleaned properly, you do not need to own one.
Yes, this is perfectly fine if she doesn’t use too much bleach. A gallon of bleach in a giant swimming pool full of water is going to be diluted. Chlorine, the major ingredient in shock treatments, is also the main ingredient in bleach.
Here is a website that will provide more information on shock treatments. Apparently there is an even safer chlorine-free way to treat your pool, but chlorine has been used for years to clean one’s pool.
One should NOT use ammonia to clean the water though, and one should especially not mix ammonia and bleach together. A REALLY bad chemical reaction can occur as a result.
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It can be very dangerous to clean your pool with bleach! ide suggest that you get an automated cleaner to treat it while your not there. They’re brilliant and pretty much pay for themselves after a while.
Hope that helps!
it is perfectly fine to use regular bleach. There’s nothing “dangerous” about it. As previous posters have stated, the main ingredient in “shock” is chlorine. If you can find a good sale on bleach and need to stock up while you’re already at the grocery store shopping instead of making a special trip to the pool store (which may be clear across town from you or not convenient to be running over there all the time buying shock), then yeah, buy some bleach. Just make sure it is UNSCENTED regular bleach. Clorox is best because it has the best concentrations of chlorine. Cheaper brand are weaker. And yes, even 12 bottles of bleach is pretty weak for a large pool so it certainly isn’t going to damage the pool. I wouldn’t swim right after putting bleach in, just as you wouldn’t swim immediately after shock treatment. So, ignore the naysayers who apparently think putting bleach in a pool is bad. If that’s bad, then all the “professional” shock stuff is bad too. DUH.