thank you for the reply...
ill be ordering one of them test kits asap
for now i do have a full Taylor K-2005 kit if that will help untill i get the new kit in
i have on hand 3 gal. of bleach and 1 gal. of muradic acid can get the gal. of distilled water first thing in the morning

no the pool store did not give us a CYA reading just a PH and Alkaline reading they said that was all we needed to focus on ,
okay what all have i put into the pool lets see at first we did nothing for about 3 weeks then it got greenish tint and slippery the pool store did a reading for us and said that our TA was 190 and PH was 7.2 they told us to add a half gal. of muradic acid every 24 hrs till the TA dropped into the range of 80-120 so that was my first of adding anything to the pool ended up taking 3 gal. of muradic acid to finally get the TA to 120 ( NOTE: while the pool store was testing our water sample i to was doing my own water testing at home and my results matched theres) now after all the muradic acid our PH dropped to 6.8 we then bought some PH increaser from wal-mart and added 9 oz at a time untill our PH level reached 7.4 and was holding for 24 hrs it ended up taking a total of 5 lbs of this PH increaser to get our level to 7.4 and it held firm for the 24 hrs and our TA was holding firm at 120
the pool store sold my wife 2 bags of crystal shock they said when we got both our PH and TA with-in range and holding for 24 hrs to add the 2 bags of shock ( Note our pool was still a greenish tint and slimmy and cloudy) so i added the 2 bags of crystal shock and let my pump run for 24 hrs and the pool cleaned up some no more greenish tint and slimmy feel but still cloudy thats when i found the forum and read about adding bleach well at that time i had 1 full gal. of bleach as discribed so i added that to the pool and wal-la the water cleaned up almost perfect looking but i tested my PH and it was 8.0 and TA was 130the pool has not been touched in 2 days now because i want to ensure i do things right and keep a nice looking and safe pool


the size of my pool is 24' x 52" intex metal frame above ground vynal dunno what the horse power of my pump is but i change filters on it regular the filter size is B its a dual switch click it down for running on timer and up to constant running