So, you are looking at chemistry controllers intending to buy. You’ve either decided it’s time to “jump on the band wagon” and automate some of those tasks you’ve been doing …
Pump Room Sleuthing – Gauges & Meters
During troubleshooting sessions, often the first thing I will ask for is a print out of the flow rate, pressure and vacuum readings from various points in a system and …
Do You Need A Pool Inspection?
Like everything else that we rely on to work, swimming pools can become taken for granted. The owners and operators, and heck, even the outside pool professionals get to a …
The Results of “Claro Nica”, TMI’s Holiday Charity Drive
TMI’s Holiday Charity Drive Update You Gave the Gift of Sight to Nicaragua! “CLARO NICA!” At the end of last year, we asked for your help in collecting reading glasses …
Top 10 Must Have Tools in a Pump Room
Our field technician, Ed, had seen more pump rooms than he can count. We asked him to give us a little insight into what he’s learned over his years in …
What Is Commercial Pool Filtration – Introduction
Filtration is one of the most critical elements of your circulation system in your swimming pool or spa. Proper filtration leads to clean, clear, sanitary water. Improper filtration can lead …
Pool Maintenance Pro Tips
One of the biggest differences between East and West Coast pools, that I’ve seen anyway, is when the outdoor pool season starts. East coast has a groundhog that bites a …
2015 Pool Safely Grant
With the Model Aquatic Health Code going into its second revision and state health departments (especially on the East Coast) already enacting certain requirements for maintaining a low combined chlorine …
Chlorine Free Pools – Myth or Reality?
The internet is all a buzz over “chlorine free pools”. Do they exist? Can you have one? The short answer is yes…and no (at least if you operate a commercial …
Commercial Pool Operation – In-house or Outsource?
Why not let outside pool professionals tend to your commercial pool? After all, they are “professionally” trained to ensure that pools run effectively. Pool care is what they do, all …
Pools Are So Much Work – Why Bother?
Most of the time I get to hear about all the “bad” that’s going on with a pool – leaking pumps, busted heaters, undersized filters, deck deterioration, you name …
5 Simple Guidelines for Great Water Chemistry
Water chemistry isn’t simple. In fact, it’s rather complicated. Hard water, soft water, phosphates, chloramines, iron, copper, high pH, low pH, nitrates, sun exposure, ventilation, patronage, filtration…all of …
The Legacy of “Overkill Bill”
It has been said that some of the staff referred to him as “Overkill Bill”, and that he really frustrated the heck out of them a lot of the time. …
Pump Room Survival Guide: Logging Your Swimming Pool Test Kit Results
In Kate’s last installment, “Basic Guide to Choosing a Test Kit”, she taught us about what type of test kits are available and hopefully left you, the always intrepid …
Basic Guide To Choosing a Swimming Pool Test Kit
There are a lot of commercial swimming pool test kits available on the market. Generally, some may be more popular than others but all come very close on their accuracy, …
Why Aren’t More Commercial Pools Turning To Salt System Chlorination?
This is a very interesting question. Let’s face it. All of us in the industry know by now that chlorine generators – “Salt Systems” – are now the most popular …
The Best Way To Prevent Urine In Your Swimming Pool
Pee. In your pool. You know it happens. You know it’s in there. You know why you don’t want it in there. Urine introduces ammonia, crystallized salts, and other organic …
Knowledge is Power – Swimming Pool Pump Room Survival Guide!
In my last installment, I wrote (some would even say waxed eloquently) about the benefits of modern technology helping the ever vigilant pool operator keep the pool crystal clear, …
Where to Buy Swimming Pool Salt?
Got Salt? Ideas where to get pure salt for your swimming pool Chlorine generators require salt water to produce chlorine, which means the pool operators require salt in order to …
4 Ways to Deal with Sunscreen in Swimming Pools
I do some of the maintenance and upkeep on our website, which includes monitoring the key words and phrases that bring people to our site. I recently ran a report …