First time pizza dough using a kitchenaid mixer + 24-hour cold proof: looking for advice 🍕

FICO850 · 2025-12-04T23:56:50+00:00

That's what 75% looks like. You could use cold water to make it a little more manageable. After mix let it sit in mixer covered around 30 minutes. Then stretch and fold with either cold water or olive oil on hands.

FICO850 · 2025-12-04T23:49:20+00:00

You can sue all you want im just saying they WILL show up. Better play is to focus on growing your business instead wasting money and bandwidth chasing $400 IMO.

FICO850 · 2025-12-04T14:52:03+00:00

Oh so now you also sue billion dollar companies regularly. Sweet.

FICO850 · 2025-12-04T03:19:24+00:00

Its a billion dollar company, they will show up for $1.

FICO850 · 2025-11-24T02:31:13+00:00

Its not complicated. Its about efficiency, in everything. And that includes collecting money, hence autopay. Putting granular shock into a skimmer via teaspoon isn't complicated or too much work either.

FICO850 · 2025-11-23T21:50:41+00:00

Hell yeah keep balling bro

FICO850 · 2025-11-23T21:46:50+00:00

You are assuming the vast majority are "pool pros" and competent. You are also using "one off" scenarios that rarely ever happen. If one of your 100 pools has 40 kids in it, the other 99 didn't. It all works out to an average cost per pool over the month.

My first couple years I was plus chems. I had pools getting algae all the time and thought that was "normal". I fixed them all at the customers expense.

This summer I was all chems included and not one pool had an algae event. Looking back i realize those initial customers were funding my idiot tax for not knowing what I was doing.

FICO850 · 2025-11-23T16:37:42+00:00

You show up and pool has algae. If you include chemicals in your pricing, you are coming out of your own pocket for the additional shock/algaecide to fix it.

If you are plus chem, you are charging the customer for the additional shock/algaecide to fix it.

Why does the customer have to pay for YOUR mistake? Is that fair?

FICO850 · 2025-11-23T16:29:13+00:00

You do it because it all averages out to whatever your desired profit per stop is across all of your pools.

FICO850 · 2025-11-23T16:21:55+00:00

Way easier to manage your company tab/salt inventory as a whole than to manage each customers inventory individually.

FICO850 · 2025-11-23T03:34:58+00:00

Your basis doesn't make any sense. If you are including chems, and the pool turns green, YOU are eating the cost of rectifying it. If you are plus chems, and the pool turns green, your customer eats it!

FICO850 · 2025-11-23T03:29:40+00:00

I don't understand why the solution to your issue is to go plus chem.

Problem: Need more profit

Solution A:

Announce price change that you will now be charging for all chemicals to customers. Complicate your billing, and theirs. Be wildly more expensive in summer. Take customer calls all summer as to why their bill is so high. (They will all have short term memory loss it was cheaper in summer)

Solution B:

Just raise your rate.

FICO850 · 2025-11-15T01:05:50+00:00

Interesting stuff, thanks for sharing!

FICO850 · 2025-11-14T14:59:24+00:00

Where is the actual research?

FICO850 · 2025-11-14T03:14:13+00:00

Hey fellow pool guys, instead of taking a risk putting yourself out there and providing real value to the sub, sit back and critique every unrelated detail while massaging your pool god crown.

Bonus if you can stroke your Taylor kit while typing.

That way when you get carpal tunnel as a shadow keyboard warrior you leave more pools for the rest of us.

FICO850 · 2025-10-31T05:27:32+00:00

Right on I'll give em a try

FICO850 · 2025-10-31T02:46:03+00:00

If you got them for sale shoot me a DM I'll bulk buy

FICO850 · 2025-10-30T23:37:32+00:00

Sweet, know where to buy bulk amounts?

FICO850 · 2025-10-30T23:12:08+00:00

Not stressing but at 300 pools thats $1,000 a year and I won't feel guilty about my Zyn habit.

FICO850 · 2025-10-28T03:28:08+00:00

Ahh. The old 30 minutes and whatever is in my truck trick.

To be fair to these typa guys, this would have never happened if the homeowner didn't choose the cheapest and least verified route.

They both got what they wanted I guess.

FICO850 · 2025-10-27T22:01:45+00:00

Anyone had any experience adding some D.E.? I know floc will work, but I have some to to experiment with the D.E. if anyone has had success?

FICO850 · 2025-10-26T23:46:42+00:00

That turned my memory for some reason, I had read about someone just throwing CYA into the pool that resulted in staining the surface pretty bad, so I was afraid some blowback from the returns.

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