Pool Cleaning
A North Texas pool maintenance checklist from working pool techs: the jobs to do every few days, every week, every month and each season, with
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A North Texas pool maintenance checklist from working pool techs: the jobs to do every few days, every week, every month and each season, with
Your finish sets your water color. Here is how white, gray and dark pool plaster colors look in North Texas sun, what fades or stains
Porcelain, glass or stone? How to pick pool tile that pairs with your coping and plaster and doesn’t show every bit of the calcium North
Sand, cartridge or DE? A North Texas pool tech compares what each filter traps, how you clean it, how much water it dumps and when
Gas, heat pump or solar? Here is how each type of pool heater works, what it costs to run in a Dallas swim season, and
A salt pool is still a chlorine pool. Here is how salt and chlorine really compare in North Texas, from pH drift and hard-water scale
The average pool pump lasts 4 to 7 years, and North Texas heat and hard water push every part of the pad harder. Here’s what
LED pool lights use a fraction of the power of the old incandescent bulbs and last many times longer. Here are the numbers and the
Your pump’s run time comes down to turnover: gallons divided by flow. Here’s how to work out yours, then adjust it for DFW summers and
Cloudy pool water almost always traces back to the filter, the chlorine or the water balance. Here’s how to tell which one you have in