New here, just opened pool for first time.

[Watermom]

Thanks, will do. It's funny, I was going to buy the test kit with drops from a local pool chain and they told me the strips were better (not just easier), but better.

Yeah, the same pool stores that tell you that vinyl pools need calcium and that everybody's pool needs phosphate removers and to add 10X the recommended dose of a clarifier like I just read that somebody in another post we've been helping with was told to do!! YIKES!