I set up a discussion forum website for folks like us in the pool business. It's just out there to get folks to interact and hopefully help each other from time to time with friendly advice, tips or to get your question answered.
What's the deal with that soap bottle on the side of the Hammerhead machines? Am I missing something here with soap that I should be doing? Can someone fill me in please?
I had a drain and fill job. City water filled and pool was green immediately when filling. I poured in two bottles of Jack's Blue Stuff. Waited over the weekend and added 1/2 gallon acid and then 8 lbs of cal-hypo as the algae was getting bad quickly
I live in a rural area that happens to have a good amount of residential pools and A LOT of large apartment complexes. (College Town). We have no retail pool store and the nearest pool store is a 90 mile round trip. Most folks are making the drive or
I have a service customer who always seems to get his equipment repairs done at various pool supply stores (leslies etc.) instead of using my services. For example today I pointed out to him that his pump was leaking and the bearings were also bad. I
I have a customer who drained and filled his 30k pool with well water. I have started the tablet feeder and added 5 gallons of acid along with waterfall aeration to get the TA down. It was at 180 before. The pool went green with metals (iron) when th
How many folks here tuned into the PGA webinar last Thursday? What were your opinions? What do you think about the cost? I thought it was somewhat interesting, mainly because it was something that applied to pools.The one thing that bothered me was t
I'm thinking of building a portable service vacuum. I would use it to vacuum pools that have some pretty heavy waste that still remains after using a leaf net. Sadly it seems that the foreclosure rate is skyrocketing, so I am seeing a niche business
I have a customer that has an above ground pool. I installed a tablet feeder (Pentair Model 320) inline with the return line. Due to a number of factors, occasionally small bubbles work their way through the filter system and eventually collect insid