68 guides from Austin Andrews on what your pool actually needs in the Texas heat, oldest of them still as true as the day they went up.
The chlorine floor for your stabilizer level, how CYA climbs, a staged dilution worked through in gallons and inches, and how to clear green water while CYA is still high.
How much water a North Texas pool normally loses in summer, the bucket test step by step, and how the pump-on and pump-off pattern narrows where a leak is.
How to work out your pool’s daily turnover, what sets the slowest speed your pad can run, and how the schedule should change from a North Texas July to a hard freeze.
How to tell carbonate scale from silicate with one drop of acid, how to remove each, and the four habits that keep the white line off North Texas tile.
Six different faults produce the same cloudy water, and more shock, the usual response, corrects only one of them. Here is how to find out which one you have.
Which three pool chemical mixes injure people, the CDC figures on who gets hurt and when, and the storage and handling rules that keep each mix out of your garage.
Which rule governs a single-family pool fence in Texas, the CPSC barrier figures worth building to, and a ten-minute audit of the gate, the gaps and the drain cover.
The four cheap causes to rule out first, what each pump noise means, how to read total horsepower off the nameplate, and which federal deadline your replacement falls under.
Why North Texas water is hard on salt cells, the five maintenance jobs that keep one alive, and how to read a low-salt warning before you pour in more salt.
Finer filtration costs more maintenance. Here is how the three filter types compare for a North Texas pool, and which one we would choose for a Plano backyard.
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