Hello everyone. I've been lurking around the forum for a couple of weeks now and thought I'd say hello! A little back-story, My fiance and I purchased a 16' x 48" round Intex AGP in July. Neither one of us has had a pool before so we're learning as we go to say the least. For the month of July the pool stayed crystal clear and was awesome. Our maintenance was newbie style and consisted of the floating chlorine tab holder with 3 tabs at all times. We purchased a "test kit", the dumb strip ones that are pretty much useless. Once the summer rains started so did our issues. We've battled the pea soup colored algae once already, two weeks ago. The "awesome" pool store suggested a shock treatment, which made the pool blue again, but still cloudy to the point you couldn't see the bottom. At the time, we also had the junk 1000 GPH pool pump that came with the pool and a horrible rechargeable vacuum for the bottom. Last weekend we returned the vacuum and thanks to the help of Amazon, installed an Intex 2500 GPH pump - Night and Day difference is an understatement!! We also ordered the vacuum attachment, that works amazing! So last weekend we had the joy of getting 6 inches of rain, thanks to Issac, and as of today the pool is back to the inviting color of pea soup green. We've spent a lot of time reading the BBB method and plan on implementing this process, it HAS to be better then the once a week trip to the pool store for testing and who knows what else. I ordered the Taylor K-2006 this morning and should have it by mid week next week. It stinks not having a sparkly pool for the holiday weekend My question *1 out of many I'm sure* is what would be the best way to approach our next move. Should we just drain the pool and start over or would it be worth trying to save? I plan on posting our test results when the kit comes in regardless of if its straight out of the hose fresh, or soup worthy :-? I'm looking forward to learning the process from you guys, and if all goes well, never having to deal with the embarrassment and aggravation of algae again
-Ashley
-Ashley