My wife and I closed on a very neglected home last June, next to said neglected home was a very neglected pool. In my initial attempt to clean the pool I was able to remove roughly 300lbs of leaves and debris and one very unhappy snapping turtle. Before I got everything cleared up in ran into an electrical issue and had to shut the process down. Fast forward roughly a year and I was back at it armed with the electrical components (and knowledge) I needed to have it up and running properly again. A couple trips to the pool store later and I was still staring into a cloudy green/black looking mess, which lead me to this magnificent little corner of the interwebs. I ditched all of the information given to me at the junior college prep station, I mean pool store, and started pumping in the chlorine and trying to convince the wife that a $70 Taylor k2006 was indeed necessary. I'm here today to say that I have already accomplished the hardest part of my pool journey (getting money from the ball and chain) and my kit should be here in a matter of days. I'm very excited to start this process and see some real results. I'd like to post some pictures of how far I've already come but I have NO clue how to do so, maybe that could be the first assist in receive from the great TFP members. I won't even bother posting my chem results until I receive the proper test kits, unless you'd like to try and decipher a hth 6 way kit and 6 way test strips at what I'm assuming is around shock levels