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As part of my moderator duties, I like to try and stay informed, so when I buy chemicals, I usually buy them from the different stores here in town and occasionally online. Well, I recently went to the HS dealer because my PH was a little high and I purchased som PH down, and it was the same brand as the dichlor I usually buy. The bottle looks the same,but its a different color, which is plainly visible, in daylight .Then when I needed Dichlor I stopped into the Sundance store and they had switched brands so I couldn't find it. The very cute young lady working the register told me they didn't sell dichlor. When I asked for Chlorine instead she gave me a bottle of Robarb's Chlorine Sanitizer (I think that is the brand) I resisted showing her the contents listing and left. That bottle is beige.Well, it appears after our nightly soak for the past 5 nights I have been adding PH down instead of Dichlor after wards. Took 4 days for the water to go cloudy.
I would just drain it and start over.
So don't feel too bad Bill, it has happened to plenty of us. I have done similar things, and lots of my customers have as well. Here is Up next to Down - the pictures are different sizes but the bottles are identical. 8-)
We had a gal in one of our other stores who sold Leisure time PH balance and calcium booster on a regular basis and told the customer to add entire btls of each Shes no longer with us I killed her. Anybody here know what happens when you do that???
Is that when you get the dreaded sandpaper finish on the shell? I lived through that. I was sick with fear that I had destroyed my tub.
I will guess.....it causes major amounts(piles) of scale which clog the filter and make a general mess in the plumbing and jets along with piles of it floating around the tub.....I label in black marker for all our customers what each chemical is and how much to use on the bottle if they want me to. It seems to work well for them.
Shes no longer with us I killed her. Anybody here know what happens when you do that???