Depending on what the ingredients are, you may or may not want to use the shock from last year.

Take a look at the SS simple recipe for starting up a smaller pool that is in my signature below. Then, if you have further questions, come on back and someone will try and help you get your new pool going!

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(By the way, we typically recommend to people that they don't worry about the manual that comes with the K2006. The kit is great. The manual as you noted is not. You can find all the info you need right here on this forum and also on our sister website poolsolutions.com.)