New here, new to pools.. help/info?

[BigTallGuy]

If your pool is a 24 ft round as you have stated, it will hold approx. 11,000 - 12,000 gallons of water. Your actual water level should be measured. A 4 foot deep pool may only have 42 inches of water. Try as best you can to calculate how many gallons of water are in your pool before you go to the pool store. This will save you money from buying/adding too much chemical.

Depending upon where you live and your water supply, it may be cheaper, faster and better to pump your pool empty scrub down the liner, and re-fill it. Then you have clean fresh water and not toxic waste.

I have a 24 foot round pool and I did mine last year (replaced the liner), the water only cost me $50. If you are on well water, it might not be the best idea, you might pump your well dry.

[Watermom]

It is ok to pump much of the pool to waste if it is really algae infested, but you don't want to totally empty a liner pool as it will most likely destroy the liner.