Mineral Imbalance Nothing is worse than preparing for a summer get-together and finding your pool a strange shade of brown or green. Sometimes when you chlorinate your pool your water can react strangely. This is nothing out of the ordinary, Read More …
Category: Pool Guy – Bonus Material
Ask the Pool Guy Takes Las Vegas!
This month, the Pool Guy enjoyed seeing his name in lights in Vegas at the 2013 International Pool and Spa Show. Named among Pool and Spa News’ Masters of Design earlier this year, Al Curtis and his partners, Sandi Maki Read More …
Press Release August 2013: Legendary Escapes Al Curtis Named “Master of Design” by Pool and Spa News
(August 2013) – Legendary Escapes designer and builder Al Curtis has been named among Pool and Spa News’ 2013 Masters of Design. Pool and Spa News, a national publication for pool and spa professionals, holds a contest each year aimed Read More …
Why does hair turn green after swimming? (The answer might surprise you!)
During the summer, people with blonde hair often face an inconvenient problem: green hair. I remember childhood summers, filled with day after day of swimming in any pool my friends and I had access to, knowing it would give my Read More …
July is Ice Cream Month!
Summer is our favorite season here at Ask the Pool Guy, for reasons you can probably guess. But, aside from the fact that summer is when we get to do all of our pool work, we love this season for Read More …
Case Study: Help – my pool turned brown!
If you have well water what probably happened was the chlorine caused the pH to increase just enough to cause the water to change color (high pH = flourescent/lime green) – and then additional shock pushed any dissolved metals out Read More …
Pool Girls at the Lake
Last week, Sandi and I were over at Jodi’s, our landscaper extraordinaire, house for some Fourth of July festivities (okay, it was the third, but who’s counting?). She lives on a beautiful lake, and we spent the evening on the Read More …
Swim University’s Pool Care Rap
Last week, our friend Matt over at Swim University debuted an industry first: a pool care rap. We had a bit of a head’s-up on this project, as Matt had contacted us about sponsoring the project. From the very first email we Read More …