So, i don't have the proper test kit and would like to get things up-and-running ASAP. I see many opinions not to trust the pool stores water test, as they are just trying to sell product. I can test for chlorine, Ph, and salt. My local pool store prints out the results of the test, would you trust that enough to get on the right track, chemically? (until a proper kit arrives). Basically, using the results of the pool water test to make my own determination on how much and what needs adjusted?
Forgive my lack of know-how on the subject. Upon inheriting the pool when we bough our house three years ago, my pool care routine was a chlorine puck floater, and dumping bags of shock in once or twice a year if it got cloudy & green. Thats it, checked Ph and figured it was good if it was "close enough". Never tested anything else.