Woo hoo pool owner!!

[Libast]

Can you tell us more about your situation? Do you have a drops-based test kit? Test strips are pretty worthless. Can you post a complete set of current water testing results? What are you using to shock and chlorinate with ---meaning ingredients.

Repost with info requested and someone can help you go from there. Welcome to the Pool Forum!

Thanks! Its actually a 13' metal frame pool, I avoided the blowup pool after seeing the neighbors smaller one burst like a water baloon.

i use a drop kit, its just the hth 3 way kit. when i opened my pool 3 weeks ago i did take my water to a local pool place and they also mentioned the CYA would be in my best interests.

Right now just using the "starter" kit for pop up pools from HTH.. the shock n swim, and the granulated chlorine, ph is 7.5 constant (no rain here in oklahoma in quite some time) and my chlorine is usually 1-3. I do add it at night and let the filter run a bit to circulate.

thanks for the welcome

[BigDave]

The last few years I ran a couple Intex donuts (none burst). My pool was in the shade most of the day and I kept my CYA on the low side - about 25ppm (by weight, the black dot never really disappeared). I only had to add bleach once a day unless there we alot of neighbors around (lots of kids fit in a 15' donut). Some days (cloudy) I could skip a day.

We had a Robo Clean robotic cleaner, It is a little car that drives back and forth across the pool sucking junk off the floor into it's internal filterbag. It was great. Works on electric so the weak pump wasn't a problem - in fact it kept alot of stuff from ever getting to the filter. It lasted three years of nearly daily use in the summer. It stopped moving at the end of last season. For $100 a season it was a great deal.