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Maintaining your pool is one of the most important things you can do to improve its safety. Regular cleaning of your pool can be done using bleach.

Bleach can create hypochlorous acid and mix with water contaminants in your pool to provide you the ultimate cleaning solution. But the question is: how much bleach for 1000 gallon pool?   

Things to Know When Using Bleach

Bleach is usually present in laundry detergents since it’s mainly used to remove tough stains from clothes. Chlorine and bleach are quite similar except that bleach can be made without using elemental chlorine while chlorine is made without any other chemical.

Typical bleach also forms hypochlorous acid. Besides, liquid chlorine or most bleach is made in small concentrations. It is usually made into 6 percent solution since it’s mainly used for laundry purpose. Normal chlorine can be made with up to 12 percent concentration.  

What this means is that you will need to use twice the amount of bleach to get the same effect as chlorine. Also, avoid using scented bleach when cleaning your pool since it can add contaminants to your pool.

How Much Bleach to Use?

You cannot know the amount of bleach you need until you test the level of chlorine in your swimming pool. The aim is to add bleach that will provide a chlorine level of 1-3 Parts Per Million in order to keep your facility free of all contaminants.

This PPM is also just right for swimmers since they won’t be affected by irritation to the skin or eyes.

One of the commonly used bleach to clean pools is Clorox and it typically boasts of a 5.7 percent concentration. If you wish to clean a 1000 gallons pool, you will need to use about 4.2 ounces of this product to boost the chlorine level by 2 PPM.

Computing Amount of Gallons in Your Pool

You need to compute the amount of water in your pool (volume) in order to ensure that you get the right measurement of bleach to use. How should you do that?

The volume of the pool = Length (Feet) x Width (Feet) x Average Depth of the Pool (Feet)

After getting the volume, then multiply the volume by:

• 7.5 – for a rectangular pool.
• 6.7 – for an oval pool.
• 5.9 – for a round pool.

The answer you will get is the number of gallons of water in your swimming pool. In our case, we choose a 1000 gallons pool.

Maintaining your swimming pool with bleach can involve two things: shocking your pool or raising the chlorine level.

• When shocking your 1000 gallons pool, you need to use 0.05 gallon of bleach to take the chlorine level to 5 PPM.
• If you simply want to raise the chlorine level, use 0.025 gallons of bleach to raise a 1000 gallons pool by 2.5 PPM.

In Conclusion

Many pool owners use bleach to clean their pools since it’s already well dissolved. It also doesn’t contain fillers that are often found in chlorine products. You can easily add the bleach to your pool using a liquidator or manually.

Buying Dirt: How Much Does A Cubic Yard Of Dirt Weigh?

Whenever you are gardening, landscaping or doing construction projects in your residence, there is a possibility that you will need to buy dirt. Therefore, you will need to know the answer to, “how much does a cubic yard of dirt weigh?”

Defining Cubic Yard

A cubic yard of dirt is one yard (3 feet) long, wide, and high. One cubic yard contains 27 cubic feet.

Now, before you think about measuring dirt using yardstick, remember that it will compress down if wet and fluff up if dry.

Types of Dirt

Depending on how you intend to use the dirt, you can either purchase topsoil or fill dirt.

Fill dirt is usually used for construction purpose. You can use it around foundations and structures (such as pools foundations) because it contains less organic matter and is dryer.

Topsoil contains lots of nutrients. That means that you should use it for landscaping and gardening projects.

Mostly, fill dirt is the one commonly referred to a cubic yard of dirt since people don’t buy huge quantities of topsoil.

What Factors Affect a Cubic Yard of Dirt Weight?

One cubic yard of dirt will weigh less or more from another depending on whether it’s made of topsoil or fill dirt. The two are quite different when it comes to their composition and have different moisture content.

Fill dirt is usually lighter and dryer than topsoil since it is harvested deeper into the surface.

Another factor that influences the weight of a cubic yard of dirt is the composition. Dirt made of clay is usually heavier than that made of sand.

The reason for this is that clay holds a lot of water when compared to sand. Both water content and composition of the dirt will impact its weight.

Average Weight of a Cubic Yard of Dirt

A cubic yard of dry fill dirt will weigh around 2,000 pounds. If it contains gravel, stone, and sand, the weight can rise to over 3,000 pounds.

In general, a pure cubic yard of fill dirt will weigh somewhere between 2,000 to 2,700 pounds depending on moisture content and composition.   

When it comes to a pure cubic yard of topsoil dirt, it will weigh around 1,080 pounds. However, topsoil is usually full of other material and can weigh between 2,600-3,000 pounds.

When it is wet, topsoil can weigh over 3,000 pounds per cubic yard.

Hauling a Cubic Yard of Dirt

There are different types of wheelbarrows and they often come in different sizes and shapes. With that said, a medium sized (3’) wheelbarrow will take about 9 loads to fill a cubic yard of dirt.  

You can also haul your dirt using a trailer or truck, as long as it can handle the dirt. Hence, you need to determine your car’s hauling capacity and how it behaves when it’s loaded to capacity.

If you load your car to capacity and drive on highways, keep the speed up to 45 mph.

• Full-size pickup trucks – often handle 1 cubic yard of gravel and stone, 2-3 cubic yards of mulch, or 2 cubic yards of dirt.
• Small trailers and pickups – usually handle 1.5 cubic yards of mulch or 1 cubic yard of dirt.
• Dump trucks – can handle up to 5 cubic yards of dirt or over 10 cubic yards of dirt if it’s bigger.

Conclusion

A cubic yard of dirt will weigh anything from 1,080 to 3,000 pounds, depending on the type of dirt you choose, moisture content, and composition.

Pool Maintenance: How Much Bleach for 1000 Gallon Pool?