Pool Chemistry and Maintenance From a CPO
Every Saturday morning for three summers straight, I watched the same ritual play out at the HOA community pool I managed in Scottsdale — and honestly, I lived it myself on my days managing smaller residential accounts. Connect the vacuum head to the telescoping pole. Attach the hose. Prime it. Slowly drag it across every … Read more
I’ve been managing pools professionally for over a decade — resort pools in Arizona, community pools in Nevada, HOA pools in New Mexico — and I can tell you with complete confidence that nothing sends a pool owner into a quiet spiral of despair quite like finding black algae. You’re out there doing your weekly … Read more
Let me paint you a picture. You’ve just unboxed a pool vacuum kit, and now there’s a vacuum head, a coiled hose, and a telescoping pole sitting on your deck like a disassembled robot. You watched one YouTube video where a guy connected everything in about 11 seconds and made it look like breathing. You’ve … Read more
Let me paint you a picture. It’s a Tuesday afternoon, the pool looks great, and then you spot it — a small pile of leaves and dirt sitting right in the middle of the deep end. Maybe two handfuls of debris, total. And now you’re faced with a choice: ignore it and let it start … Read more
Last summer, a homeowner in my HOA service area called me in a panic. She’d just spent $180 on a suction-side automatic pool cleaner, installed it herself, and three weeks later her pump basket was clogged with debris, her filter pressure had spiked 8 PSI above normal, and she had a repair bill forming. The … Read more
Let me paint you a picture. It’s 7 a.m. on a Tuesday, I’m standing at the edge of a 75,000-gallon resort pool in Phoenix, and the shallow-end steps are wearing a coat of yellow-green algae like they’re proud of it. I’ve got a standard nylon brush on a telescoping pole, and I start scrubbing. Twenty … Read more