Hi everyone. My name is Brian, we have 5 kids and live in central Illinois. My wife brought home an 18ft intex pool the other day, and now we have a pool. I had zero idea why I was getting myself into. I'm so overwhelmed and confused as to what to do next. I don't want to have to dump it and refill it again. Help!?

I have filled out the pool chart thing. I have used an HTH test kit and it showed my clorine way way low, and my alk and pH high, above 8.2.

I'm standing in walmart trying to figure out which chemicals I need. We have a big box of 1lb shock bags, but I don't have the skimmer in place for clorine tablets, and I know I need to bring the pH down.

I'm so confused.