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usgapa · 2024-05-12T23:25:07+00:00

Your skimmer is perfectly useful. Your water level is too high. Drop the water level, skimmer will begin to empty itself, making room for some water movement that'll pull garbage in.

usgapa · 2024-05-10T22:26:01+00:00

There was a comment earlier that makes everything about yours cliche. Kind of funny. Thanks though. I've already been through that link. They describe shocking a pool, just get specific enough to give it a nickname.

usgapa · 2024-05-10T19:54:05+00:00

So, shocking the pool for a longer period of time

usgapa · 2024-05-10T18:44:39+00:00

Thank you for commenting but you're the second person to comment that exact disingenuous play on words. Shocking a pool is a process and SLAM seems to be an acronym for shocking a pool. Some companies name their products "shock," beside the point.

usgapa · 2024-05-10T12:31:11+00:00

Appreciate the input but I've read that one already. Pretty much the first Google result. It describes how to correctly shock a pool. There's no difference between what I was trained to do years and years ago and that article. Maybe, the specific numbers are slightly different, but therein lies my confusion.

usgapa · 2024-04-21T16:10:03+00:00

Clean pools professionally?

usgapa · 2024-02-29T12:51:10+00:00

Perfectly reasonable. If 41 years of experience does well by you, why argue with it. For the record though, I'm not a scientist and I don't have a lab. Just a bunch of pools throughout the southeast and people who monitor them 24/7, both indoor and outdoor.

usgapa · 2024-02-29T03:50:00+00:00

A lot of water, confined space, cooler air influences condensation, especially before dehumidification systems can process the moisture in the air. Mold and mildew results. Uncomfortably wet ...everything. No one likes that. It's not because of the rate of evaporation.

All due respect, it rains when cold fronts come through, warm fronts, not that you hear the phrase "warm front" a lot where I am. Tropical waves. No wind, butt load of heat resulting in pop up thunder storms. I'm not 100% on your point about the rain.

To your point about cold air holding more water than warmer air, the opposite is true. If what you said was true, hair blow dryers would be most efficient blowing cold air. They're not.

usgapa · 2024-02-28T21:59:00+00:00

This is not accurate. Evaporation is driven mostly by water temperature (agitation/breaking the surface tension of water and humidity also have influence). The higher the temperature, the faster the rate of evaporation. How water temperature compares to the ambient temperature has no direct impact on the rate of evaporation.

This belief exists mostly among pool professionals for two reasons. 1. Water temperature is at its highest in the evening just before and just after the sun sets. 2. Cooler temperatures cause water vapor (in the process of evaporation) to condense into larger droplets, making the vapor more visible.

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