pool maintenance
Hayward Pool Products (Elizabeth, NJ) has introduced AquaRite 900, a salt chlorination unit featuring an…
Zodiac Pool Systems (Vista, CA) announces the release of the MX8 Elite suction-side pool cleaner.…
Hayward Pool Products (Elizabeth, NJ) announces the new TriVac 700 pressure cleaner for swimming pools.…
When I conduct seminars at pool and spa industry trade shows, I regularly get asked about the validity of a water-management technique known widely as the “acid column” approach. Those who believe in this application method say that if acid is poured into a swimming pool in a concentrated area – producing what adherents variously call a column, slug, well or cloud – the alkalinity of the water will be drastically reduced, but the pH will not drop as much as it otherwise would. By contrast, they say, if that same volume of acid is added by walking it around a pool and evenly distributing it throughout the water, the pH will be
Waterco (USA) (Augusta, GA) offers MultiCyclone Plus, a centrifugal filter design that retrofits to…
Compiled and Written by Lenny Giteck Yankees’ A-Rod Strikes Out With Tenants Irate Over Pool Florida housing officials have ordered New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez — more commonly known as A-Rod — to better maintain the swimming pool at
Just how much do swimming pool chemicals add to the total dissolved solids (TDS) content of the water? Do all chemicals of equal amounts (by weight) add identical amounts of TDS to swimming pool water? These are important questions, because elevated TDS levels can
We’ve been conditioned in the United States to think that the only safe water is water that has been sanitized by powerful chemicals and/or devices using ozone or ultraviolet light. In fact, it seems that our industry has promulgated a doctrine that we need to
By Beth Hamil In the first part of this in-depth look at ozone, author Beth Hamil discussed its environmental benefits for energy consumption, water usage and general healthfulness. [To read Part One, click here.] In this installment, she turns to the many new aquatic applications the ozone industry is exploring. Ozone-system suppliers have made enormous efforts in recent years to develop and scale new systems for all sorts of aquatic
