The routine that keeps a pool clear: water chemistry, salt systems, and the weekly habits that stop small drifts from becoming green water. Written for North Texas conditions, where heat and mineral-rich fill water both work against you.
Sooner or later somebody tells you the water has to go. In most of the country that is a Saturday with a hose. Here it is the most expensive thing you can do to a pool wrong.
You can scrub the tile, and you should, but unless you deal with what put the scale there it comes back before the season is out. In DFW, that means understanding why your calcium hardness only ever goes up.
Salt pools aren’t chlorine-free and not lower maintenance. They trade weekly chemical handling for a standing requirement to control pH and keep the cell clean, which is harder here than most places.
Chlorine, pH, alkalinity, calcium, cyanuric acid. Here is what each number should be for a North Texas pool, why our mineral-rich fill water changes the math, and how to keep it balanced.
Biweekly service looks cheaper on paper, but in the Texas heat it often costs more in chemicals and recovery. Here is how to decide which schedule your Plano pool actually needs.
Every comparison of salt against chlorine is written nationally, which leaves out the two things that decide it here: our fill water shortens cell life, and our pools run twelve months a year.
Tablets are convenient, cheap per pound of chlorine, and the single most common reason a North Texas pool goes green in its third season. Not because they don’t work.
The ground under your pool moves, in both directions, annually. It’s the local condition that produces the most expensive pool failures in this county.
Most owners who quit DIY don’t quit because it was hard. They quit in late July, because it was relentless.
The white band on your tile is the visible part of a problem that starts at the hose, and it doesn’t stop at the tile.
True Texan Pools keeps your water swim-ready all year, across Plano and the rest of DFW. Clear pricing, a photo report after every visit, and Austin doing every job himself.
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