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…
Pool Care
From balancing water chemistry and troubleshooting equipment to seasonal transitions and surface preservation, we provide the technical clarity needed to keep your pool crystal clear and swim-ready all year long.
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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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
