There is a ton of controversy and misinformation about the difference in the effectiveness between low and medium pressure UV units. First, you have to decide what you want the …
Why Hire CPO® Certified Pool Operators?
With Healthy and Safe Swimming Week going on right now, what condition the water that you swim in is important! The average bather probably doesn’t think about proper pH, free …
Should You Or Should You Not Use CYA In Your Swimming Pool?
Every year when summer comes around I start getting the questions about whether CYA or “Stabilizer” is necessary. For most of my clients I will say no, but there are …
Swimming Pool Maintenance Steps You Should Never Forget
Time is often more precious than gold in the working day of a pool operator. There never seems to be enough of it. And in a hectic day of maintaining …
Pool Noodles Can Carry Pathogens! How To Keep Them Sanitized?
At a very busy indoor pool complex (a client of ours) swimmers and staff began complaining of itchy skin. Over the next few days the incidents of itchy skin continued …
Pool Safety Systems For Commercial Swimming Pools
Approximately 200 people each year die in pools with lifeguards and what is a sad fact these could very well be preventable deaths. At a recent site visit, I was …
Why Do You Use Pool Chemicals?
Day to day it is my job to help clients find/fix problems, sometimes the problems are electrical, other times they are mechanical, but the problems that are most intriguing are …
Rules Regarding Chemistry Controllers – Over-calibrating a Controller
Many years ago I received a call from a client telling me to come and remove a controller we had sold them because it would not even track pH correctly, …
Certified Pool Operators® – Why Should You Have One?
According to the NSPF, a Certified Pool Operator® is someone who has been trained and tested competent in the basic knowledge, techniques, and skills of pool and spa operations. The …
Is It Worth To Pay For On-Going Commercial Swimming Pool Maintenance?
I have a good client who runs a very busy swim school in a metropolitan area. The pool has been open for about 5 years since the group spent a …
Is Stainless Steel Resistant to Corrosion In A Salt Water Environment?
The other day I had a customer, with newly installed TMI equipment, call me. He was told by a representative of a pool service company that you do not want …
Why Choose TMI For Your Commercial Swimming Pool Needs?
2015 was a year of change, and was most definitely interesting. We’re looking forward to what this year holds, and the puzzles our clients bring to us. As the first …
Keep Spare Parts for Your Aquatic Facility On Hand At All Times
Keeping spare parts on the shelf in an aquatic facility is a common point of contention between administration and maintenance. It can be hard, for the powers that be, at …
Why Bother to Balance My Pool?
So the (convoluted) logic to this one is …” Why should I balance my pool water when it looks fine to me?” By “balance” I mean bring it as close …
Should You Have a Dedicated Pool Tech?
Depending on the facility and the size of the pool a dedicated pump room staff is crucial for a crisis-free environment, As a field tech I have seen a number …
Salt Pure® vs. Salted – Liquid Chlorine Systems
People have asked me, “Do I really need to put all the money into a salt system or can I just throw salt in and use liquid chlorine? It’s the …
Are Pools More Dangerous Than a Loaded Gun?
Browsing through on of the many pool related magazines that cross my desk, I read a statistic that really caught my attention, especially in the light of the many public …
Energy Loss in Pools – Part 2
In our last blog our friend Cory Willis told us a little about the evaporation and how it affects energy loss in a pool. This week we’ll look at a …
Energy Loss in Pools – Part 1 – How Much A Pool Evaporates? How To Prevent It?
This blog was brought to you by our friend Cory Willis. Pools lose energy in a variety of ways! Did you know evaporation is by far the largest source …
The New Pool Detective – Salt!
By now we all know that a salt pool has many advantages…well most of us, if we are honest with ourselves, do. It is now the most popular residential pool …