I just bought an 8'x30" pool to get the 5 and 7 year old grand kids to get them through the last month of their summer vacation.
I just completed setup yesterday filling it with the hose. I found this site to help me understand the water treatment, but never having a pool before I'm not sure where to begin. I purchased HTH 1" chlorinating tablets for bow up pools, ph minus because ph reads 7.8, and algecide.

Not sure where to begin. Tthe pool only holds 650 gallons of water. Chlorinating tablets said to use 4 per 10,000 gallons so I just put 1/4 of a tablet in the floating skimmer to give it some chlorine. I'm wondering if I should have used the HTH stabilizer first but I wasn't sure and that was one chemical I had not bought. Since I can't even get it until tomorrow and the chlorine gage did not even register I figured I should at least give it a little chlorine until I can go to the store tomorrow.

Can someone help me with the order to apply chemicals and how far apart to do them. I appreciate any help or advise. Thanks