To get a ballpark figure of where your chlorine is until your good kit comes, you can dilute your water sample. This is not super accurate, but better than nothing at all.

Testing Without a Good Kit

Either use bleach or dichlor but if you use dichlor, you do need to raise your pH some with Borax or it may drop below 7.0 which you don't want. Yes, to running the pump 24/7 while you are trying to clear the pool. What kind of filter do you have?

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