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Smart Irrigation & Watering

How Much Water (and Money) Can Smart Irrigation Actually Save? The Real Numbers

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…

Equipment & Systems

How to Heat an Inground Pool Efficiently

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

Biology & Contamination

How to Keep Mosquitoes From Breeding In or Near Your Pool

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

Equipment & Systems

How to Change a Pool Light Without Draining the Water

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

Seasonal Pool Care

How to Find a Leak in a Pool: The Dye Test, Bucket Test, and Pressure Test

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

Smart Irrigation & Watering

What Makes an Irrigation Controller Smart: Sensors, Weather Data, and ET

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…

Equipment & Systems

How to Heat an Above-Ground Pool: What Actually Works

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…

Biology & Contamination

How to Keep Bees and Wasps Away From Your Pool

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

Biology & Contamination

How to Keep Flying Ants Out of a Pool During Swarm Season

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

Equipment & Systems

How to Measure Pool Depth

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

Biology & Contamination

Green Pool Water That’s Not Algae

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…

Biology & Contamination

How to Get Dirt Out of a Pool

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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