I just uncovered my pool to a aqua blue type color. The pool definitely has algea at the bottom, because i cant see it. I put about 4 gallons of bleach in to try and lighten it up a little.

Now the way my system is, when i vacuum to waste it also releases the DE from my filter, so i would like to vacuum to waste before i put any de in the filter (dont want to waste it).

after my initial vacuum (to get the big stuff) i will put fresh de in and start the filtering process.

is there anything wrong with that?

also my pool is a kidney shaped ig pool, i think its gunite but im not sure. how do i figure out how many gallons my pool is?