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Pool opening 26 Feb 2008 | 05:14 am
With the unseasonably warm weather this week, perhaps it time to start thinking about routine Spring maintenance. It never hurts to start early so those inevitable surprises cannot delay planned pool ...
Swimming Pool Help Forum becomes authority 25 Feb 2008 | 12:39 pm
The Swimming Pool Help Forums have been elevated to authority status by Google. With over 17 million 200 million 1,04 trillion results for pool help, the forums have been given special directory statu...
Swimming pool measurement 24 Feb 2008 | 01:59 pm
I received a few emails about the post I did on calculating pool volume. The question posed was, “how can you measure the pool easily?” especially in the cold, wet weather. The most common way to mea...
Pool care in winter 23 Feb 2008 | 01:34 pm
During the cold winter months pool water tends to stay clear with very little help. Generally algae does not appear and I hardly ever see a pool turn green. Any algae growth that does occur is extreme...
After the thaw 22 Feb 2008 | 12:22 pm
All the lovely snow has melted, adding valuable water to the the ground water table and the lakes nearby. A quick tour of nearby pools showed no sign of snow of freeze damage and everything appears t...
Swimming pool freeze 18 Feb 2008 | 08:17 am
The latest snowfall has turned the world around us into a winter wonderland. There hasn’t been that much snow, but just enough to make everything look white and “clean”. The pool water is real green,...
Calculate pool volume 15 Feb 2008 | 10:12 am
Whenever you get pool supplies, the instructions say x ounces per 1,000 gallons or something similar. So how many gallons of water does my swimming pool hold? There are a lot of sites on the internet...
Concrete pool building 14 Feb 2008 | 12:27 pm
The cooler winter months are ideal for building concrete pools. The concrete cures perfectly without risk of drying out. This is a pool we have recently begun. This picture was taken while the rebar w...
Brittle PVC pipe fixtures 13 Feb 2008 | 11:41 am
Once again we had a battle with a Baker Hydro sand filter leaking from the threaded adaptor at the bulkhead. We get called out for the same filter problem several times a year despite the relative rar...
Drought in Georgia 12 Feb 2008 | 12:48 pm
Citizens of North Georgia have been anticipating a dry summer and empty swimming pools. The Governor’s office, among much speculation, had ruled that pool owners would not be given permission to use t...
