@Cherylpool everyone will think you are completely insane for, omg, testing your water with chemistry set (only aliens and cults measure chemical concentrations with chemistry sets). Then, they will think you’ve gone off the deep end when you, omg, pour BLEACH into your pool. The fact that you, omg, shun advice from the Almighty Pool Store makes you certifiable.
But, once you get your pool TFP’d, you’ll begin noticing how many of the other pools that you may have been swimming in are nasssssty. That’s what happened to me. I have a buddy with crystal clear water…but when you look closely, there’s green stuff growing in the fountain returns and all other kind of nooks and crannies.
Drink the kool-aid. Join the cult. Most people don’t TPF. And most pools are gross. I’m a pool snob now. I don’t drink cheap wine, and I don’t swim in gross pools.