Pool Chemistry and Maintenance From a Backyard Pool Owner
Nadia Caldwell · July 9, 2026
“Solar covers don’t actually work,” a pool store manager told a customer in front of me last year. “You need a real heater.” I asked him if he’d ever tracked water temperature on a covered versus uncovered pool during the same week. He hadn’t. That’s the problem with advice born from guesswork instead of data. … Read more
Nadia Caldwell · June 25, 2026
Sunrise routine across three different Scottsdale-area pools I was looking after: step onto the deck, assess the debris situation, and immediately calculate the overnight temperature loss. At one sprawling HOA complex, I routinely collected an entire skimmer basket’s worth of oak debris, insect matter, and airborne seed pods before sunrise — without fail, day after … Read more
Nadia Caldwell · June 24, 2026
Most of the “solar covers don’t work” complaints I get aren’t actually about the cover. They’re about how it’s being used. I’ve walked onto properties where the cover was on bubble-side-up, left off all night, or balled up in the shallow end for two days after a storm — and then the owner tells me … Read more