Noobie Here!

Hi all! This is my first post on TFP, I was referred by a few friends.

The wife and I purchased a home over the winter with a pool, so now I'm delving into the world of pool maintenance! I'm pretty proud of myself for getting this once green and leaf infested pool to where it is today, but it seems there's still some work to do. I did purchase the TFT-Pro test kit so without further ado, here are my latest test results:

• pH: 8.2
• TA: 120
• CH: 700
• FC: 1
• CC: 0.5
• TC: 1.5
• CYA: maybe 10?

I'm working with a 24' round above ground pool, so it's vinyl. I'd guesstimate that the total volume is roughly 13,500 gallons. I've been running the pump a lot recently, which uses a 150 sq ft cartridge filter. Have had to do fairly frequent changes as it was filtering a lot of the finer debris out of the water, but at this point it can be run for days on end without affecting the PSI and the water is looking just about crystal clear.

I'm excited to continue learning and ditch any reliance on the local pool store.. Though they don't seem too bad, but still, who doesn't like saving some money!

One other thing I'm curious about, and been advised by said pool store, that CYA never leaves the water. Does it 'reactivate' as the gentleman at the pool store said? If that were the case, I'd be hesitant to add stabilizer.. but I'm not so sure, it didn't seem right when I initially heard that.

Thanks all for your time/help!! This has been a great resource thus far and I hope I can contribute in the future.