Thank you all for your support. Went to Walmart and got a test kit. All they had at the moment was an Aqua Chem $15 test kit which I got. I can test FC, Ph, Alk,Stab, Hardness. I know I can do better (more precise) but for the next few days it will do. I've been doing alot of reading as suggested and printing out relevant pages as reference. I've also created a "pool book" which is just a binder with 3 sections, pool forum notes / calendar pages to keep #stats on balance and chems added / blank pages for observations. I have a terrible memory and I figure this way I'll be able to refer back. I don't expect to do this forever, but I would guess at the beginning as you all say, you need to get to know your pool and this should help, right? DH says it's like I'm back in school!

Ok-pool guy should be here any minute so I will have him test and I'll run parallel test to compare. I will post in a separate thread the results.

Thank you all again.

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