Just remembered this advice I hadn't seen yet: don't store any chemicals in your garage.

Quad Dog said:

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Just remembered this advice I hadn't seen yet: don't store any chemicals in your garage.

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Uhhh ya. Learned that the hard way. My garage concrete is stupid hard. Had to go and rent a hell of a drill from Home Depot when putting in some concrete anchors for a garage door brace for hurricane season. We somehow knocked over an old bottle of muriatic acid. It ate a half an inch deep hole in the concrete about six inches wide. I'm much more careful with the muriatic acid now.

Any oxidizer in the garage will corrode all things metal. That includes chlorine tabs, granular shock, and muriatic acid (remember the caps are vented).

I was going to store my chemicals in my brand new metal shop. Luckily, someone told me not to store them in there. That would have been bad.

Also, thanks for the note about running the pump 1 hour for every 10 degrees. I was about to ask how long to run now that it has cooled off. On a similar note, do y'all turn off features (bubblers, water fall, etc) once the weather cools off in fall?

Obviously dumb question, but where do you store chemicals if not in your garage?

Always run your feature pumps, even if just for a few minutes a week. 1, it turns over the water trapped in that loop, allows it to be chlorinated appropriately, 2, mechanical rotating equipment shouldn't sit without turning for months at a time for many reasons.

Store chems in a plastic outdoor bin away from windows/vents