No chlorine

[geordie]

In a pinch go to Walmart and get the 5 way drops based kit. It will work until you can get a better one. The strips aren't accurate enough to do much good. I have the same size pool as you do and with 0 chlorine I would start by adding 2-3 bottles of chlorine as soon as the sun is off the pool. What size bottles did you buy?

[Spensar]

If your CYA is at zero, you will need some of that too, which is at the pool store. Best approach to pool stores is know exactly what you want, and just buy that.

(If you do talk to anyone there and they ask what kind of chlorine you use, say it's liquid, or sodium hypochlorinate.)

Sound like you have some really bad stores there, here they give you a printout, with their chemical recommendations of course. Even then, it's better to do your own. Last year I went one day and the CYA reading was 25, the next day they said it was zero and recommended I add 4 pounds of CYA.....

[rastoma]

Sorry for the delay.. I went out today and the local pool store had NO drop based kits. They dont even sell them. stopped at Kmart today and bought some of everything.. B B B Im ready!

I'm a newbie myself here but one thing I learned before making my first post is stop going to the pool store. As it's been mentioned many times, go to Walmart and get the test kit they have there (surely you have a WM nearby Kmart might have one too.

The test kit you can order through this forum is best, but you need something now so go get the one at WM if you can.