Nobody looks at a winter cover between closing day and the first thaw. It goes on in October, the pool stops being part of…
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…
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…
Standard silica sand filter media needs replacing roughly every 3 to 5 years, sooner if you notice cloudy water despite balanced chemistry, backwash cycles…
Low-to-medium speed, run for a longer daily cycle, is the efficient standard for routine pool filtration — pump energy use scales roughly with the…
Pool-specific filter sand, commonly labeled #20 silica sand at a 0.45 to 0.55mm effective size, is the correct media for a sand filter —…
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