Good Morning!

Here's my update:
Intex 15'x48" 4400 gallons

Bought stabilizer. According to pool store's analysis our cya was 17. So hubby added 8oz to raise 10ppm through skimmer. (Wish I had seen the sock method before hand) We decided to start here, but really not sure if that will be enough due to pool being in full sun 12-13 hours a day and temps here are around 90 everyday.

Ph continues to be 7.6 according to our new "dunk" test kit.

Chlorine continues to dissolve/evaporate. I add 1/2 gallon bleach in am and another in pm.

Here's my questions to be sure I understand right.

I will need to continue to add the bleach twice a day until stabilizer dissolves, correct?

How long will it take stabilizer to dissolve and how will I know? (by my chlorine levels starting to stay up?)

The new "dunk" kit we bought only has enough to do cya test twice. So my thoughts were to use these stress strips, I mean test strips () to monitor a CHANGE in cya, once there is a change I would say the cya has dissolved and we can use the "dunk" test or take another sample to pool store to get actual cya numbers.

Once the cya dissolves how often do you typically have to add chlorine in hot humid weather to maintain?

How often do you recommend checking the ph and cya? The bottle of cya says to test cya once a week. I've not found anything regarding the ph.

I think thats all the newbie questions I have for now.

I want to thank watermom, Carl, aylad and everyone else who has taken the time to help us. It's greatly appreciated.