I've used HTH algaecide - do I need to drain my pool?

[Whattf]

I've decided to drain the pool. I've been adding 1 gallon of Bleach 8% per night, and the pool guy has been adding 8 lbs of chlorine every friday. The FC reading is 0 every day.

[PoolDoc]

Suit yourself -- but since you have a K2006, you can figure out what's going on, if you care to do so. More specifically: if you are having sunny weather in Dallas, and have no stabilizer, you will NORMALLY lose 100% of your chlorine every day, regardless of how much you put in. In clear water, with CYA = 0, the half life of chlorine (1/2 of whatever is there, whether it's 100 ppm or 1 ppm) can be as little as 15 minutes!

That's also the situation you will be in, when you refill -- since your fill water will have no stabilizer. So, you may drain, refill, . . . . and then be right back EXACTLY where you are now.

I take it, you chose to not get any dichlor? And haven't added any CYA directly, either?