New to Chlorine, was in baquacil hell, any advice please

[coadysmom]

Hello,

Thank you to all you helped in my thread below. I have some additional questions that are probably so simple but I am so unsure and don't want to scew anything up especially since we just finished draining the pool to get rid of the evil baquacil.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Can anyone give me what a good ppm would be for a 15x26.5 oval abouve ground?

I suppose I need to test the water first before I add teh beleach or shoudl I had some,then test? It just finished filling about an hour ago.

Can I just egt a test kit from like Wal-Mart for now?

Thanks again!

[sevver]

You need to know what the CYA is for the pool in order to determine the ppm chlorine. I think that you had said in the other post that your CYA was 0, if that is so you should pick up some Cyanuric Acid also because you will need to raise it to between 30 and 40. I figured the pool at around 13000 gallons, and the bleach calc said to add about 3 pounds of Cyanuric Acid, I would start with half and wait a couple of days to test again.

[Watermom]

I am going to merge your two threads to keep all the info together. Please continue there instead of starting another new thread. Thanks.