I'm broke from pool chemicals

[kelly jenkins]

I opened my soft sided11,000 pool about one month ago. It was green like pea soup. For the last month I have gone to area pool stores ( they both have the Alex program to test), and they have given me different..expensive advice. THe pool is no longer green but I can't see more than about one foot down, if that.
Sunday I put 15 lbs of shock in, Wednesday they sold me another algeacide and Power Floc - I'm hundreds in the hole, and my pool looks NO different. I could really just cry because my kids are going crazy and I've spent money that I did not have to spend.
The pool store tells me that there is some"really tough stuff this year keeping pools cloudy" That is not really helping. Any advice???

[Buggsw]

Test readings please - a full set.

Get a good test kit and do your own testing. It's a lot more reliable. Once you get the hang of it, you can do a full set of testing for under 10 minutes and you can do a quick chlorine, pH test in 2 minutes.

Get a Taylor test kit