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Not the greatest lighting because our tree coverage is pretty ridiculous but here it is this past Sunday....there was no keeping kids out of this thing...lots of showers were taken in our house...

So I got my TF Test Kit last Saturday (unbelievebly fast shipping) and played with it throughout the weekend practicing the tests. We weren't ready to begin our SLAM yet because as some of you may remember, we got pool-stored into adding 25lbs of granular chlorine last week. The initial CYA...

but the "concentrated" is okay?

Hard to find plain old bleach at WalMart! Weird! The "plain" Clorox they have is "concentrated", but it also says REGULAR Bleach at 8.25%....is this stuff okay to use?

Re: Time To Stop Trusting "The Store"??? No snarkyness sensed! It is rough trying to open a pool early in Minneapolis though, especially when just 3 weeks ago there was still 4 inches of ice in the shallow end. That and we had an expensive/drawn out auto-cover repair as well. :(

Re: Time To Stop Trusting "The Store"??? Thanks again everyone for the advice! I have ordered the proper test kit and accessories and I am very excited to take control! I did go back to the store last night in the interest of not losing progress on getting to my breakpoint and bought more...

Re: Time To Stop Trusting "The Store"??? Thanks very much for the warm welcomes and the advice! Great to hear from a fellow Minnesotan and 2 fellow Marylanders! I have lived in MN since 2001 but I was born and raised in Maryland for 22 years! So yea...feeling bamboozled here...and...

Hello all....I'm new here and I hope it is not too tacky of me to introduce myself and then pour over my pool issues. Pool details are in sig... I live in Minneapolis, MN and was a first time pool owner last summer. We got through it, learned some expensive lessons but still had a great season...