After a few months of beating my head against the wall, I could not stand it anymore. So I wrote a letter to anyone that would listen. Not many did, but a big thanks to Service Industry News. Maybe we can get some answers, maybe not.
I want to underst
For at least 40 years, many pool service companies have been successfully maintaining their residential pools on a once-a-week visitation basis. Empirical evidence has shown that pool water can be kept safe and properly sanitized without harmful bact
It is amazing how incorrect information gets started, and gains traction despite being wrong, and not based on science. For example, contrary to some pool literature and manuals, it has been shown that a pH of 8.0 to 8.4 is workable, and sometimes is
Experienced service techs know that the pH in many of their pools generally rises above 7.8 within four to seven days following chemical treatments. It is a chemistry reality that when water contains 80 ppm to 120 ppm of carbonate alkalinity, and is
Just got my latest SIN and was really surprised by the satement that APSP made about the latest ANSI Standard they are working on.
Why would they worry about a solid requirement for water quality when the one that they got approved for plastering was
New gunite pool as of July 2015. Opened this season 2 weeks ago and found tens of thousands of small, sharp dots all over pool. Perhaps calcium nodules, but so many. Everywhere. Cut knuckles on them. Help? Plaster bonding massive failure?
Some plasterers are occasionally finishing pools so fast that it detrimentally affects the quality and durability of plaster surfaces, and are not even aware of the consequences. And the NPC is enabling for this to happen. This needs to stop. Imprope
Imagine, service techs: from day one, you maintain the pool water in perfect balance, yet get blamed for causing various plaster discolorations or defects. That is not a pleasant thing to deal with, especially if you are being told to pay thousands o
The swimming pool publication, Service Industry News and its’ PhD chemist, recently peer reviewed the NPC/Cal Poly (NPIRC) Phase 2 pool plaster study report and concluded that white spotting (soft spots, spot etching, and spot alteration) of their pl
If NPC leaders would just acknowledge what improper plastering practices do to pool plaster, there would not be a controversy within the industry - and there would be fewer plaster defects and discolorations occurring.
Case in point: Adding calcium ch
Instead of writing a “he said, she said” article about the plaster spotting controversy, Service Industry News (SIN) thought it would better serve the pool industry by conducting their own investigation to determine what information is true, and fals
So I just got a Power Vac PV2100 and filmed it for my YouTube Channel. It is a pretty awesome product and will speed up my time out in the field tremendously.
It seems even in my area the Hammerhead is more popular and was wondering if it was just bet
As we know, sales of newly constructed in-ground pools have plummeted in recent years, however there are builders who are thriving in this new environment through various methods which include adding value and differentiating their businesses from co
The NPC has drafted a plastering standard which has been submitted to ANSI for approval. But the NPC did not include and address many proper and improper workmanship practices, such as, limiting water content (water-to-cement ratio), calcium chlorid
Read the news here about why the YMCA of the USA, who engages more people in aquatics than any organization, chose the CPO Certification Program from NSPF.
YMCA of the USA and National Swimming Pool Foundation
Cooperate on Delivering Operator Training
I have been testing the Bio-Active CYA reducer and filming the results. Working on a new video in which I am testing it in six pools like the manufacture did for the back of the packaging. I know the stuff is working because the Turbidity test soluti
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Decades ago, people in the pool industry started becoming aware that there was more to pool maintenance than just adding sanitizers to the water (to kill algae and bacteria) and filtering it (to help keep it crystal clear). Gradually, we learned tha
So, you have a pool, and you brag about How you have the latest and GREATEST filtration system...but are you SURE that your have the clearest water out there? Would you like to find out?
Treatment Specialties/Link Automation, of Ramsey. NJ, is offerin
