Maintenance

Research and advice on all aspects of maintenance for your swimming pool. Don't know where to start? Read our guides on water chemistry 101 and maintenance schedules.

Mineral Pool Systems Guide

How Much Water Do You Actually Lose in Your Pool From Evaporation?

Total Dissolved Solids in Swimming Pools

How to SLAM a Pool

How to Add Calcium Chloride to Your Pool

Using Baking Soda Vs. Soda Ash in Your Pool

How To Use Soda Ash (Sodium Carbonate) in Your Pool

How to Use Baking Soda in Your Pool

Everything You Need to Know About Total Alkalinity In Your Pool

Non-Chlorine Shock: Should You Use It in Your Pool?

What Is a Pool Ionizer?

Bromine Tablets Guide

How to Lower pH Level in Your Pool Safely

What Is Pool Stabilizer?

How to Keep Leaves Out of Your Pool

How to Remove Pollen in Your Pool

How to Get Rid of Worms In Your Pool (And Keep Them Out)

How to Keep Wasps and Bees Away from a Pool

How to Remove Calcium Scale Deposits from Your Pool Wall

How to Use a Pool Valve Actuator

How to Select the Right Pool Check Valve

How to Set Up Pool Diverter Valves

How to Select a Pool Diverter Valve

Guide To Your Pool Valves

How to Properly Store Your Pool Chemicals

Biguanide Pool Treatments Guide

What To Do if Your Swimming Pool Has Nitrates

Guide to Using Sodium Bisulfate in Your Pool

Guide to Using Sodium Hypochlorite In Your Pool

Guide to Using Borax in Your Pool

How to Remove Pool Liner Wrinkles

Common Pool Pump Issues and How To Fix Them

How To Replace a Pool Pump Impeller

How to Remove Stubborn Pool Pump Impellers

How To Clean Out a Pool Pump Impeller

Pool Pump Too Loud? Here’s How to Fix It

Causes of a Leaking Pool Pump and How to Fix It

How to Replace Your Pool Pump Motor

Should You Replace Your Pool Pump Motor or the Whole Pump?

How Long Should You Run Your Pool Pump For?

How Much DE to Add To Your Filter

Signs You Need to Replace Your Filter Cartridge

What Is a Spider Gasket?

How To Maintain and Repair Your Multiport Valve

How To Replace a Lateral in a Pool Sand Filter

When to Replace Your Pool Filter O-Ring

How to Lower Chlorine Levels in Your Pool

Bromine vs. Chlorine: What’s Best for Your Pool

How To Replace Your Pool Return Jets

Pool Jets Not Working? Here’s How to Troubleshoot Them

Guide to Using Dichlor Chlorine

Trichlor Chlorine: Should You Use It for Your Pool?

Zinc Anodes For Swimming Pools

What is Pool Ozone?

Basics of Pool Water Saturation Index

How to Reduce High Pressure in Your Pool Pump System

Monthly Electrical Costs to Run a Swimming Pool

Pool Popping Out of the Ground? Here’s What To Do

Pool Light Troubleshooting

How to Caulk Your Inground Swimming Pool

Best Pool Brushes

Best Pool Closing Kits

How to Find and Replace a Skimmer Weir

How to Find and Replace a Skimmer Basket

How to Tell if Your Salt Cell Needs Replacing

How To Test The Salt Level Of A Pool

What You Should Do to Your Pool After it Rains

How to Get Rid of White Water Mold and Pink Slime in Your Pool

How to Remove Algae from a Salt Water Pool

How to Clean a Swimming Pool the Right Way

How to Keep the Mosquitoes Away From Your Swimming Pool

Why You Have Air Bubbles In Your Pool

How to Set Up an Automated Pool Chemical System

Keeping Frogs Out of Your Pool

Keeping Ducks Out of Your Pool

How to Get Sand Out of Your Pool (& Why It’s There)

Pool Foaming? How to Get Rid of Pool Foam

Liquid Chlorine vs. Chlorine Granules

How to Solve Chlorine Lock and Chlorine Demand

What’s the Difference Between Stabilized and Unstabilized Chlorine?

How To Raise Your Pool’s Alkalinity

Guide to Automatic Pool Chlorinators

Using Household Products to Clean Your Pool

15 Common Pool Maintenance Mistakes

How to Identify and Remove Pool Stains

The Importance of Swimming Pool Circulation

Swimming Pool Anatomy Guide

How to Change a Pool Light Bulb

How to Use a Pool Air Pillow With Your Winter Cover

How to Troubleshoot a Pool Heater

How to Patch Any Pool Liner

How to Repair Plaster in a Pool

How To Detect A Leak In Your Pool

What Is the Perfect Pool Temperature?

How to Acid Wash a Pool

How to Kill Black Algae in Your Pool

Total and Free Chlorine: What’s the Difference?

Understanding Phosphates in Your Pool Water and When to Use a Phosphate Remover

How to Balance and Maintain the Calcium Hardness Level in Your Pool

How to Get Rid of Mustard Algae in Your Pool

Calcium Hypochlorite: What Is It and How it is Used

A Guide to Using Algaecide in Your Pool

Pool Clarifier vs. Flocculant

How to Shock a Swimming Pool

How to Prime a Pool Pump

Understanding Your Pool Filter Pressure Gauge

How to Use the Multiport Valve on Your Pool Filter

How to Clean Your Pool Filter

How to Backwash a Pool Filter

How to Change Pool Filter Sand

Is a Chemical Free Pool Possible?

How to Test Your Pool Water

How To Raise pH Levels In Your Pool

Ultimate Guide to Salt Chlorine Generators

How to Get Rid of Water Bugs in a Pool

How to Use Cyanuric Acid In Your Pool

How to Clear a Green Pool

How to Clear Cloudy Pool Water

How to Lower Your Pool’s Alkalinity Using Muriatic Acid

Best Pool Testing Kits

The Best Chlorine Tablets For Your Pool

How to Open an Inground Pool

Pool Salt – What It Is And The Types of Salt You Should Use

Saltwater Pool Maintenance Guide

How Much Are Swimming Pool Maintenance Costs?

How to Cool Down Your Swimming Pool Water

When Should I Drain My Swimming Pool?

Should I Replace My Inground Pool? When to Know It’s Time

How to Treat and Remove Algae From Your Pool

Swimming Pool Chemistry 101

Guide to Winterizing Your Swimming Pool

Guide to Swimming Pool Water Quality Standards: Public and Residential

Signs That Your Swimming Pool Needs a Deep Clean

Swimming Pool Maintenance 101: How to Take Care of Your Pool