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 …
Tech Tip – Dealing with Rust & Corrosion in Pumprooms
Beyond the cosmetic impact, rust and corrosion can be major headaches for aquatic facility operators, maintenance technicians and pool technicians. As TMI’s field/repair technician, I have seen my fair share …