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Almost... just need to turn the heater on for a couple days. It took forever to shock it this year!

One thing I didn't know about pools is that the water can get "old" I know that sounds ridiculous but I guess they say that you need to completely drain it and refill it or chlorine won't work properly. This made sense because I was using a ton of chemicals and they didn't seem to be having the same effect.
But it might be different here because we have so much evaporation and then overtime the water that is left could be really mineral dense.