Reading Time: 10 minutes How To Maintain Pool Water Chemistry Pool Water Chemistry is used to keep your swimming pool’s water balanced. It’s something as a pool owner I had to learn. Water that is balanced makes it easier to keep the pool clear and clean. This is a hard fact. Keeping water within a range is something that… Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes Offline Chlorinator Fitting Fails Over time you will experience offline chlorinator fitting fails. These were a couple that I found during a routine inspection of the offline chlorinator. What kind of failures This article deals with saddle fittings, compression nuts and saddle clamps for automatic chlorinators that are similar to the Hayward CL220 and any generic chlorinators… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Winter Months and CYA Levels Winter months and CYA levels in the pool go hand in hand. It’s going into winter again and it’s time to start concentrating on lowering my CYA levels in my pool. This way, next May when the “Pool Season”, opens my CYA levels will be low enough to not worry about having… Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutes Troubleshooting the offline automatic chlorinator Other than leaks, troubleshooting the offline automatic chlorinator is a matter of checking water flow. That means that in this system there are four points where water flow can become restricted. Problems will always be a lack of flow. The main problem with this type of chlorinator is that it can plug up. Water fed… Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutes Clear sparkling pool water strategy I finally have a clear sparkling pool water strategy that works. I have been using chlorine tablets for several years to maintain my pool. They work great at delivering acceptable levels of chlorine to the pool water over a long period of time. Along with an offline pool chlorinator, they… Read More »