When I air conditioner, I remove the skimmer basket in the pump basket and I slowly pour granular conditioner. If I need to add 8 pounds I just poured a nice and slow but the other day I clogged the propeller in the pump. How do you guys do it?
Hey pool pros, I'm sure everyone's feeling the pinch just like we are. What are you doing to help mitigate or address price increases for gasoline, chemicals, parts, supplies, etc? Anything? Nothing? Anyone going up on their prices for delivering weekly pool service to customer's backyards? Our gas bill alone has gone up significantly. Thx!
Title. Repost because reddit acted up and didnt link picture to heater or its current condition.
My customers have in ground and above ground pools. I’ve decided that I would prefer to just set my own pump next to the pools have a simple bag filter on the discharge. I’ve tried a couple pumps and even put check valves on the inlet side to keep the water in for priming and even played around with putting a valve on the discharge to try and create better suction
and I can’t seem to get any pump to pull good suction and actually fill the wet end all the way with water
Hi - we just had our pool built with autocover and the autocover drain isn’t working well because the end of the drain can’t daylight due to the grade. We ran it and did an elbow, but it is not able to fully drain. Any suggestions from folks who have an autocover and how to drain if your grade won’t allow to daylight it? Dry well?
Thanks so much!
Have any of you built a portable filtration system similar to the Hayward setup in the attached photo for pools that don’t have equipment plumbed in yet?
We built our own version about 3 years ago and it’s at the end of its life. It works great, but it’s insanely heavy and awkward to load/unload from our trucks, and overall just a pain to transport.
Before we rebuild the same thing again — does anyone have a better design or a more efficient portable setup you’ve used? Boss man is wanting something “super cool” and easier to move around.
If you can’t comment photos, feel free to message me on here.
Thanks!
Picked up a new pool with a Jandi JXI-260N heater. Bits of black crusty metal are spitting out the pool returns. Heater still works, but I suspect it's not long for this life. I'm guessing it needs a new heat exchanger.
I can hold my own when it comes to repairing gas pool heaters, but replacing a heat exchanger is new to me.
I see where I can buy a replacement heat exchanger. Is replacing this heat exchanger a reasonable repair to make? Anything I should know before I get started?
Are there any other parts I should expect to replace or may need to be prepared to replace while I'm in there?
Thanks in advance.
Interested in dipping my toes in media blasting tile, not really sure where to start, I’ve heard a lot about a harbor freight set up? But can’t see to find a decent vid about it. The ones I’ve seen are pushing expensive set ups. I have a pool that want to sell a tile cleaning job tied into an acid wash we are going to do. Tile definitely needs it and I think now would be a good time to get some practice on media blasting, since I’ll be acid washing the pool. Anyone care to share there set up?
Hello pool doctors, I'm about to buy a house but here's the state of the pool. I genuinely don't know whether the rust is kinda normal, or is actually terribly abnormal and the whole pool should be replaced. I don't know what happened to the pool, the only thing I know is the engine is 2 years-old.
How bad is it?
7.9 Ph
100 ppm total alkalinity
150 ppm calcium hardness
100 ppm cya
Can anyone give me a name for this coupling? It goes into the pump and then into the piping. Popped off the pump a few times at the end of last summer and needs to be replaced. Thanks!
When we bought our house, this heater didn’t work from the jump. I want to replace it with a solar heater, since the cost of propane is crazy. Any suggestions? We have an above ground pool, located in New Hampshire. We already have a solar blanket, but I want to be able to use the pool when needed, not just when we can barely get it up to 73 degrees.
Hey guys,
I’m just getting started in the pool service business and I’m looking for a good software/app to help me run things more efficiently.
What apps are you currently using for your pool business?
What are the best options out there?
I’d love to hear what you use and which ones you’d recommend for someone who’s just starting out.
Thanks!
So first let me preface what we have done already.
Pool has some major blue staining from roof algaecide.(no heater).
We did a standard stain removal process got the pool looking brand new. Sequestratant and absorbic acid. Also draining half the pool.
We did not refill on a filter from the city water.
We then kept some Sequestratant on the pool over the next 2 months. Doing a maintenance dosage. (Jack's)
So after a month of the stain removal process any time we add liquid cl, it clouds the entire pool for 48hrs.
Even if we predilute In a bucket of water.
We tried flocing and waste line, we even used a culator metal carbon membrane filter system, because some of the stain came back on a couple spots.
We've also kept a 4.0 culator in the pool.
We haven't really gone and thrown in a algaecide or enzyme yet, nor phosphate treatment, because other wise the pool looks great no disable algae, cl is holding a standard time for swfl summers.
Am I missing something? Or should we just "shock" and algaecide because somthing is in the water?
Connected to my phone off the bat, full Diagnostics everything in theHayward app, suddenly after it starts running it disconnects and wipes it even wipes the equipment off the app completely and ever since I’ve been on the phone with them a couple hours by now I’ve been back to the house half a dozen times trying to be on the phone with them when I can get over there and I can’t get any help please please somebody tell me you know something I don’t…. Hard resets all this shit. None of it works. Can’t get anything to connect and everything else connects all around it. Great WiFi etc
for weekly service i’m almost always adding these antagonists on the same visit so it begs the question right, which first and why?
I've been grinding these past 6 years, I only have 37 clients currently. I have 20+ reviews, I show up on time, I do quality work, and my customer service is genuinely something I take pride in. Clients can always reach me and I'm either available right away or get back to them within 10 minutes. My loyal clients love me and I have the reviews to back it up at 4.9*. But the phone just isn't ringing with new clients. Meanwhile, I've been bleeding the ones I do have.
My bleeds:
- A few moved away this year
- One bought a new home without a pool
- Just lost one last week to a competitor offering free filter cleanings bundled in for only $10 more than my monthly rate
That last one stings the most. The client said it's nothing due to my service and only because they'll save more money this way. They would be saving around $140/year with the new guy when doing the math... I can't figure out how to compete when someone is practically giving away services to undercut me. It's hard to stay motivated when you feel like you're running in place or falling backwards.
For those of you who've been through a slow stretch like this, what turned it around?
Specifically:
- How are you actually getting inbound calls? Google ads, door hangers, Nextdoor, word of mouth?
- Do you bundle in filter cleanings or other services, or keep pricing a la carte?
- How do you compete with lowballers without racing to the bottom yourself?
I know the work is there and I know my customers are happy when they have me. I just feel like I'm invisible to everyone else. Any advice from guys who've built a solid route would mean a lot right now. Appreciate your time, thank you.
Both valves are all the way to spa suction and spa pressure but the spa is losing a good amount of water. I’m not there now but I think there may be water still shooting back into the pool. Do you think the return valve may be busted?
The pool is already light green as it is and struggling to keep it clean.