Almost everybody diagnoses a brown spot by its color, and color is the least useful thing about it. Dead grass is dead grass. What…
Mustard algae is easy to mistake for dirt. Your pool stays clear, chlorine reads around 2 ppm, and a brownish-yellow film appears along the…
The controller in your garage is probably running four days a week for ten minutes a zone. Somebody set it that way the week…
You mow on Saturday. By Tuesday, there are pale green spikes standing an inch and a half above everything else, in the same two…
Pool floats usually get damaged in storage because they were put away wet, dirty, or in the wrong conditions. Trapped water can lead to…
A damaged pool cover doesn’t always need replacing. Small tears, holes, and worn areas can often be repaired, but the right fix depends on…
Winterizing a salt water pool takes a little more care than closing a traditional chlorine pool. The main difference is the salt chlorine generator,…
Pool chemicals are the most dangerous thing most homeowners keep on the property, and they get stored like paint cans. The failures are not…
Nobody looks at a winter cover between closing day and the first thaw. It goes on in October, the pool stops being part of…
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…
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