Posts Tagged “pool and spa”
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 [...]
Color Q Copper 5 Pool/Spa Meter In an earlier post we discussed manual methods for testing copper levels in pool water: Traditional ‘Liquid’ Test Kits and Test Strips. While those methods work well most of the time, when the time comes to make a major decision regarding which way to direct a pool’s chemical balance, [...]
In an earlier posting we promised to give you some real-world advice regarding how to clean up algae problems in pool water. We have personally, and successfully, used the following instructions more times than we care to remember and feel safe saying that they will work for pretty much anyone as long as their pool [...]
Seems like a really stupid question, but trust us when we tell you that thousands of people ask that question each swimming season. Either that or they ask a similar question: “I put algaecide in my pool but I still have a green pool. Why?” For the most part the term ‘algaecide’ masks the true [...]
The idea that people would still think it perfectly normal and OK to urinate, or pee, in the swimming pool still astounds us. All this doesn’t mean you need to ditch your pool plans. Plewa offers recommendations for pool operators and swimmers to reduce hazardous chemicals and make for safer pool water. “Care should be [...]
Some folks have written in recently to tell us that they seriously doubt the ‘hype’ about waterborne illnesses from contaminated swimming pools, hot tubs, etc. In response to their doubts, we now present you with an actual case where health officials shut down a water feature park in Columbia, SC because a person who had [...]