I hope I’m posting in the right section, sorry if not.

I just picked up a home with a pool that has sat neglected for maybe a half a year. Two weeks ago the pool was totally black. I dumped 5 jugs of chlorine in and you can see to the bottom of the pool now. I cleaned the leaves and debris from the bottom with the leaf catcher the best I could so far. Every time I begin to use the leaf catcher it stirs up so much muck it becomes too cloudy to see what I am doing though.

The pump is new, the sand filter is new, but not used (Divorced couple with power struggle, nobody bothered to turn the pump on as a protest.) I still don’t think it is safe to turn on yet, is it? Should I rent an external water pump first to filter the water before turning on the filtration system? I remember my father’s pool filled with river water (from a hurricane) and he used an external pump to filter the water first.

What products to I need to put into this pool since it has been sitting for so long unattended?

Anything else you could point out would be greatly appreciated. Thanks