The intellichlor Salt Cell has a lifetime of approx 10,000 hours. To check this, press and hold the more button for 3 seconds. The lights should scroll through and leave a few of the percentage lights lit up. The amount Read More …
Category: Everyday Guide to Swimming Pools
Diving Board Safety
We encounter pools in our service area that don’t meet the minimum size and slope requirements for a diving board. If one is present we always alert the homeowner to the safety implications, and we also decline to work on Read More …
Pool Salt – Purchase from a Pool Place
When purchasing chemicals and pool supplies, we always suggest purchasing from a pool supplier. That way you know that the supply chain got you the best product possible, with the fewest impurities and will protect your pool and your equipment! Read More …
Can you add chlorine to a bromine pool?
http://www.SwimmingPoolSteve.com – When you add chlorine to a bromine pool the chlorine acts as an oxidizer and reactivates spent bromine salts back into active bromine. The same is not true for the reverse situation in that adding bromine to a Read More …
I just bought a house that has an above ground pool. I know nothing about starting up a pool system. Do you have any videos on opening a pool showing how the equipment works?
This is the best above ground equipment tutorial I’ve seen on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9Jh4ByMhdM
Turn off the pump and waterfalls to get a clear view of the bottom of the pool
To get the best visibility when servicing your pool turn off all ancillary waterfalls and slides the result will be still water that will let you see what is going on below the surface!
Treating a green pool – Sometimes it has to get worse before it gets better
Sometimes it will get worse before it gets better. This homeowner decided to push some buttons on the control panel which may have turn the chlorinator off for 24 hours the result was a green pool. We started treating the Read More …
High Iron Content turning your water green?
High iron content? Treat with the ferriiron tablets and go from green to clean in no time at all. They work best with the sand filter! 24 hour time lapse between these photos.