Money is a real problem right now. That is most of my frustration because I spent $100-150 in the last week. I just changed jobs and everything is a mess.

the pool is a vinyl lined 20x40 with roughly 30,000 gallons.

I can't afford the phosphate test and chemicals right now, but I think that a proper test kit would be a good investment.

Unless you say otherwise, then I am thinking shock to 24 and adding more stabilizer to get to 30-50, brown guess, on the test strip over the next few days. Thinking that I will add 3-4 more pounds of stabilizer to see what I read on Thursday


I will reread the Best Guess information.

so, you think that I am going in the right direction?

I have a drop kit right now and it is a strong yellow for the chlorine side.