No problem! Yea, green pad, like the plastic-y one. Just not a metal one, i.e. steel wool. Sort of like similar to what you might have to scrub pots and pans in your kitchen sink (just get a new one!).
Yea, my experience is that it gets impressively shiny once you put the time in for the BKF part, and then finish with soap and water. You'll figure out how much to scrub each section pretty quick. Go over each part you do once or twice or three times and you can be pretty sure you've got as much dirt and grime out as you're going to get.
Good luck!