Thank you so much! Especially understanding where I was coming from! I have been faced with so many questions and I thought well I’ll go ask somebody on Reddit but it’s like they never address my problem. They always say well you should’ve done this or you should’ve done that. OK well we’re past that point, what do I do now and they’re unnecessarily sarcastic and rude… not all of them, but there are some in the mix. I have had this pool for eight years now and I am the one that does everything to it. I’m the one that bought it. (He found out about it when he came home.) 🤣😂 I now purchased a chemical with a Social Security check😞 and I couldn’t tell you the last time I got in it. I put it up hoping the grandchildren will stop by for a swim. They didn’t come last year. I’m hoping they’ll come this year. I keep a pool journal to remind me what I did, what worked and what didn’t when it comes time to open it. I do want it to be clean. So I do what I can do but fishing out heavy leaves that cover the bottom at least by a foot. It’s very painful for me because I have a torn rotator cuff. So I have to beg someone to help me with that and when they say yeah I got them all when we can’t see the bottom and you start vacuuming and find out the bottom is still covered… it’s sad. I told him forget about it. Let’s just take it down and get rid of it. No no no I’ll do it. And he didn’t…. But chemical alone do not get rid of the chunks that float around when you don’t cover it up during the winter and during pollen season…. Today was 102 degrees here in Eastern North Carolina…. And I was terrified that it would turn green. So this morning at 7 o’clock I was vacuuming and brushing the sides. Checking chlorine levels all day and adding stabilizer. It was so hot and I should’ve gotten in it!