Hi and welcome to the Pool Forum! We have a section of the forum all about caring for smaller Intex type pools. In that section, there is a stickied thread giving a 'recipe' for starting up a new pool. Take a look at that thread and see if that will help you get going. If you have further questions, please feel free to come back and ask. (Until your registration is completed, you'll have to log out first to be able to read the rest of the forum.)