Pool Guy Chronicles

When its time to close the swimming pool you will have to blow out the swimming pool lines and also the Polaris Pump lines if you have an automatic pool cleaner called the Polaris. In this picture below you can see Dan getting ready to what we call “plug up” the opening of the Polaris [...]

The Hayward EC40 series filter has been around for a long time. I showed up to this pool opening and I was met with a really old and abused EC40 filter and a Hayward Power Flo pump. Here is how the pool opening went:
In this picture you can see me making sure that all of [...]

Usually you see the Hayward Power Flow swimming pool pump on above ground pools. On this one pool we were opening they had a power flow as you can see here in the picture. The pool skimmer was only a few feet away so it was pretty easy for the pump to draw suction from [...]

The proper way to fold and store and in ground or an above ground swimming pool cover is to do what the call a “fan fold”. Basically a  fan fold is when you fold the pool cover on top of itself over and over so that stacks nice and neat. We will show you below [...]

During the winter season the rain water and the snow melts on top of the swimming pool cover and starts to collect. The proper way to take care of the pool is to pump the water off of the swimming pool cover using a pool cover pump.
As you can see below there was a l [...]

We were called out to  close an above ground swimming pool and when we get there we notice that this swimming pool is not blue. In fact the swimming pool is full of green algae that covered the pool walls and the floor. Have a look at the pool steps in the picture below and [...]