Archive For August, 2010
Properly installed, quality winter pool covers prevent unwanted leaves, dirt, and other types of yard debris from entering your pool over the winter. Keeping those things out of your pool will make for a simpler, faster and less ‘painful’ pool opening in the Spring. Made from high quality high density and low density polyethylene using [...]
Properly installed, quality winter pool covers prevent unwanted leaves, dirt, and other types of yard debris from entering your pool over the winter. Keeping those things out of your pool will make for a simpler, faster and less ‘painful’ pool opening in the Spring. Made from high quality high density and low density polyethylene using [...]
Back when we grew up, pool owners had two options: Solid cover or no cover… and we liked it! Keep in mind, though, that we ALSO liked walking uphill to school both ways in the rain wearing clothes handed down to us by siblings who wore them 20 years prior. Yep. The good old days. [...]
Why should you bother investing in a decent winter cover? Simple: If you don’t keep clipped grass, fallen leaves, loose debris, live (or dead) animals, wind blown trash, and copious amounts of dead bugs out of your pool water over the Winter… you will have a giant mess to clean up AND need more chemicals [...]
In about a week’s time many folks will take their last dip in the swimming pool for the 2010 swimming season… and that means most pool owners will soon need to take a trip out to the pool house or shed so they can get out their trusty ‘ole winter cover. But… What if that [...]
Now before you freak out, keep in mind that the presence of fecal coliform bacteria in a body of water does not necessarily mean the water will cause a person to get sick… or die. Also, this sampling included, for the most part, outside bodies of water, not drinking water supplies. So having said that, [...]
While the average person does not have a need to for chlorine levels much above 3 to 5 parts per million, and even then they would typically only need to do so to make sure their swimming pools had a sufficient amount of free chlorine, but other folks have the need to test for free [...]
People living in the city of Camden, OH spoke up when their city drinking water, which came from a village-owned well, developed an unpleasant salty taste. As a result, the Ohio EPA got involved and in July they informed village officials that they would have to remedy the taste problem via filtration or find a [...]