Please bear with me I am new to this as I bought a home with an older pool last fall and it was closed when we moved in. I had seen the pool open prior to our purchase and it was beautiful. I hired a pool company to open it in the spring and followed their directions and ended up with a beautiful pool that was Crystal clear, but it was too cold to swim. Temperatures have risen and we were able to use the pool. I have been given instructions that if the pool had been heavily used I should use some nonchlorine shock to sanitize the pool, I did this and immediately had a brown/green pool which I know it was caused from the iron in our water. I added some iron remover And was making headway then I took my water in to be tested and they stated that my chlorine level was at zero that I needed to shock the pool with 6 1 pound bags of shock. I did this and immediately my pool turned back to Brown, so I took my water in to be tested again and they stated for whatever reason I had no chlorine left after 24 hours and that I needed to Shockett again with 12 bags of shock which I did last night. They are not open to test my water today, I have a test kit that will show chlorine up to a five which I will be testing here shortly. If my chlorine is low again I am in bed instructed to put in another 12 pounds of shock. I have named this pool the money pit for a reason I have been to the store multiple times and spent ungodly amounts of money on products for this pool. My neighbor gave me this website yesterday and I’ve been doing a lot of reading and it seems as if I have been ripped off by the store and at this point I am not sure what else to do. I have a curlator ? In my pump basket which is supposed to pull the iron out, I have a filter on my hose and I am adding additional water expecting to backwash sick several times. They have suggested using a product called revival or revive which is spray over the top surface of the pool and turn the pump off and let Fall to the bottom clearing the water and then you will vacuum to waste. I’m at a loss I’m about ready to get a dump truck full of dirt or two to fill it in and make a beautiful garden, please any suggestions I would appreciate. I’m not sure of my pump size I’m pretty sure it’s a Hayward pump and I have a sand filter And a heater that is not turned on as well as a auto vac system. I’m going to test the chlorine etc. shortly but based on my reading should I even use the shock or should I go buy liquid bleach essentially help help help help