Posted on 05/02/2021 5:05:34 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
The worst chlorine shortage the country has ever seen is set to rock this summer’s pool season.
“It’s been a concern for us,” said Cody Saliture, owner of Texas Pool Professionals, which has been in business for 17 years.
The Rockwall, Texas-based company services 200 clients weekly, and Saliture said he recently began to stockpile chlorine tablets. He’s also been looking for different chemicals to keep pools sanitized and his customers happy.
“We’re looking for anything that we can get that we don’t have here in North Texas,” Saliture said. “We’ve been to about six states and 15 cities [for supplies].”
The chlorine shortage is widespread and it will likely worsen — driving chlorine prices even higher — as homeowners start to prep swimming pools for the season. CNBC spoke to pool industry insiders in multiple states — including Florida, Michigan, Nevada and Texas — about the tight supplies, which are expected to blindside pool owners, who are largely unaware of the problem.
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Pool pee’ers impacted the most.
This will have a major impact on many suburban homes with pools. It can take 2-4 gallons a week with casual maintenance to keep a pool from becoming an algae-fest. I’ve been seeing the scarcity of available chlorine get worse. Very worrisome for those who have full size private pools.
My pool guy gave me a heads up. I got enough for the season last week.
The BIG buckets were already sold out.
I use a salt water generator. Plenty of pure salt at the hardware store. It doesn’t get consumed, so I’m good until fall pool closing.
So install an ozone purifier. Get rid of the chlorine water
Chlorine use is crude. H2O2 is the way to go.
Yup, some form of oxygen is the ticket.
Lets see. Gas shortages - check
Chicken shortages - check
chlorine shortages - check
And those are just the ones I read this morning.
Happy summer and summer vacations amerika.
Wasn’t too long ago we had a pipeline. And people worked. You know, stuff like that.
Are the shortages real or are they being manufactured?
Here’s a video taken two weeks ago showing an almost a half mile long pile of lumber being stored along side a railroad track near the Vermont/Canada border.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY3zjaeof8w
What happens when the gubmint manages commodities. Slouching towards Venezuela.
I saw that one as well.
I think something is going on with CEO’s/Politicians.
My CEO who in a photo op with Trump looked like he was drooling over the opportunity (maybe he lusted Trump’s power?), has all of a sudden become a bed-wetting Equity POS.
Keep a solar cover on your pool at all times when not being used. I did it religiously last year and hardly used any chlorine at all and kept the water bath water warm in Mass.
Manufactured. Too many shortages and we all know that our government and big business are totally corrupt.
We need a plan.
There once was a time I could go to LL Bean or Lands End online, have several choices of fabric, any color I wanted and every size was in stock. But that was 10 or 15 years ago. Before the Internet going back to the 70's, I would buy from their paper catalogs. About the only change I have made over the years has been in the fabric, opting for no-iron over 100% cotton. I don't want business dress shirts, nor to pay excessively. Beyond Bean and Lands End, I have checked Brooks Brothers, J. Crew, Jos. A Bank, Duluth Trading, Orvis and several other places. I have even gone as far as looking on Amazon. Amazon has their own brand now and it appears from the reviews that they are junk - thin fabric and people complain that they are semi-transparent. I want a shirt that is going to hold up for 10, 15 years or until I die.
Maybe I am picky, but I didn't have this issue in the past. I don't want some untrusted brand and I don't want to go to a bespoke tailor to buy a casual button down that fits.
This country is looking more and more like the former Soviet Union. Back at the height of the food and paper product shortages, I explained to my daughter how the grocery store shelves compared to the old soviet days. I did that while standing in line for the meat counter, and of course loud enough for other shoppers wearing useless face diapers to hear.
Salt generator s the way to go! I switched to salt two years ago. Pool maintenance is almost no effort at all these days!
I do not want too buy using S/M/L etc., which seems to be the norm.
EXACTLY how I feel. I also do not wish to only deal with made to order just so I get something that fits properly rather than looking like the guy at the middle of the prisoner line.
You forgot lumber shortages.
Bottle of bleach
If you’re not proud you might with luck find some in a thrift shop. I know it’s long odds, but it might be worth a try. I lucked onto a pair of very nice Jos. Bank button-down oxford cloth dress shirts in my size a few years ago. If they were used I couldn’t tell it.
It used to be that one could find some decent shirts cheap at places like T J Maxx or Ross, but nowadays it doesn’t seem so. I guess that’s at least partly because not many people wear nice stuff any more.
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