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Category: Service Guides & How -To

Generators 101: Tips from an Electrician

March 22, 2012 Ask the Pool Guy

          This is a guest post by Jeff Lakatos, of Hartland Electric LLC, a Michigan Electrician (810) 632-2004 Spring is fast approaching, and spring in Michigan usually comes with severe weather and occasional power outages. Here Read More …

Service Guides & How -Togenerator, Portable Generators, Standby Generators, Transfer Switches

How to Care for Your Swimming Pool Vinyl Liner

February 16, 2012May 18, 2016 Ask the Pool Guy

  Swimming pools that are equipped with pool vinyl liners are great options for swimming pools! One of the benefits of a vinyl liner pool is that the steel walls that support the pool structure are held in the ground Read More …

Service Guides & How -Toliner, swimming, vinyl, vinyl liner

FAQ: I’d like to convert my baquacil pool to a salt generating pool. Is this a good idea?

February 15, 2012May 18, 2016 Ask the Pool Guy

This question came in from a viewer on our YouTube channel: Hello, If you don’t mind helping me out, I would greatly appreciate it. I currently an using Baquacil for my IG 19×37 vinyl pool. However, this spring when I Read More …

Service Guides & How -Togenerating, good, idea, salt

Facts About Swimming Pool Main Drains

February 13, 2012May 18, 2016 Ask the Pool Guy

  The main drain in your swimming pool is very easy to locate – it sits right at the bottom of the pool. But locating them isn’t actually the problem with swimming pool main drains. The problem is that they Read More …

Service Guides & How -Todrain, main, swimming, swimming pool

What to do about discoloration in pool water?

February 12, 2012May 18, 2016 Ask the Pool Guy

Have you noticed your pool getting discolored? The chlorine you put in not helping? Perhaps you’ve had an infestation of the lovely metal of iron. Iron is great for making steel or transporting oxygen around our bodies, but when it Read More …

Service Guides & How -Todiscoloration, Pool, water

Common Swimming Pool Repairs That You Can Do Yourself!

February 12, 2012 Ask the Pool Guy

If something has gone wrong with your pool, you might think that it’s the end of the world. But truthfully, something’s bound to go wrong with your pool at some point or another and it’s not usually anything to be Read More …

Service Guides & How -Toneed, pools, professional, repair

Have a leaky pipe?

February 9, 2012April 15, 2019 Ask the Pool Guy

Do you  have one of those pesky drips or outright streams coming out of your plumbing? the pipes around your swimming pool equipment pad leak? If you do and are looking for an easy repair, look no farther. While walking Read More …

Service Guides & How -Toleaky, pipe

Vinyl Liner swimming pool service people pay attention to this!

February 8, 2012May 18, 2016 Ask the Pool Guy

I love gadgets. Swimming pool related or not. Here is one of those tools that just makes so much sense. I am so glad that these guys came up with such a tool. It is used to aid pulling a Read More …

Service Guides & How -Toattention, liner, pay, people, Pool, service, swimming, vinyl

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