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Smart irrigation gets sold on savings numbers, and the numbers are all over the place. EPA WaterSense says up to 15,000 gallons a year…

Walk up to enough equipment pads and the pattern repeats itself. Oversized gas heater, cycling hard, a gas bill that looks like a car…

A homeowner gets eaten alive in their own backyard every evening in July, looks at the largest body of water on the property, and…

The first time someone tells you that you can swap a pool light with the water still in the pool, it sounds like a…

Pools lose water to evaporation constantly. A hot, dry, breezy week in an uncovered pool can pull down a quarter inch a day without…

The word gets used loosely enough that it’s nearly meaningless on a box. A controller you can turn on from your phone is not…

Above-ground pools lose heat differently than inground pools, and almost every piece of advice you’ll find online was written for the inground case and…

By the time most people call about this, the skimmer basket already tells the story. A wet gray mat of drowned bees pressed against…

A flying ant swarm is a few hours of reproductive traffic that a colony has been building toward all year, and it ends on…

Pool depth is measured vertically from the surface of the water straight down to the pool floor at that point — not from the…

Pool water that’s green but stays clear rather than cloudy, and that gets visibly darker right after a shock treatment instead of clearing, points…

Heavier dirt responds to vacuuming to waste or a robotic cleaner with its own onboard filtration, but very fine silt or dust is often…
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