We have a solar cover bought off Ebay. (Maybe we paid $50.?) The "solar cover" was a joke from Intex. The solar cover from ebay has bubbles on it and lays on the surface of your pool. If you do it right you can get most of the dirt and bird poo off it , or at least into a net, before it falls back into the pool to be sucked out by the un adequet cartrige filter that comes with the pool.

Don't use the floating chlorine pucks unless you get a LOT of splash out or your stablizer will build up and you'll end up with a green pool. But they "might" be ok if you have kids that get a lot of water out . Or they can be used initally untill the stablilizer is at the level you want, then go to BBB.

Read, read, read, and get a good pool testing kit. Buy the bleach on sale when you see it. And you can't ever have too many of those filters. Once pool season hits they become VERY scarse. You can put a ladies knee high inside the filter basket to pre-filter out a lot of junk and add more time to the filter.

I love our frame pool, can't wait to get it up and swimming... :-) Kimrst