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Thank you! I appreciate the encouragement. Itching for my test kit to arrive so I can get things rolling!

I added a whole bottle of chlorine bleach yesterday, and the water is much improved today and FC levels are higher than my little test kit will read (the yellow is darker than the darkest one.) I read somewhere else on line that having algea in the pool can make the CYA level read higher than...

Okay. Thanks so much for the explanation. This is all new to me, but I have high hopes that TFP will get us in good shape. I actually do have a smaller Taylor test kit for chlorine and Ph that the previous owners left, so I'll use that to monitor the chlorine levels until the T-100 arrives...

I think he was using something called Shockwave. The water is cloudy in the deep end. It was greenish yesterday, but the green has gone away. Do you recommend I go ahead and shock the pool with chlorine while waiting on my test kit to verify the testing results from the pool store, even...

We are new pool owners and I think we've goofed. I just returned from the pool store, and here are our numbers: FC 1.1, Total Cl 1.6, CC .5, pH 7.8, Alkalinity 92, CYA 95. Reading on here, I'm learning that our CYA is way too high and we must drain 60% of our pool. Yet the pool store said...