1. Keep your chlorine in the 5 - 10 ppm range.

2. Keep adding borax -- 2 - 3x per day, till your pH is ~7.4 or 7.6

3. BRUSH your pool.

4. Yellow-green water can be from a stained liner. Put a couple of vitamin C tablets on the area of the liner where the water appears most discolored. If the liner changes color, you have stains.

5. As long as you get the pH up, and keep the chlorine up, you should be fine till the kit arrives. (You can swim, now!)