Good luck with the pool and keep plugging away at it! I had a big mess after coming back from holidays, and even though I've run the pool for 3 years, I was surprised at the amount of chlorine and time it took to finally whip it back into shape.

It WILL work. Like they are saying on the forum, just keep the chlorine level up until it clears! No vacumm to waste will give you a bigger challenge getting the dead algae out of the pool. Lots of filter cleaning I guess!