Running a commercial or public pool means juggling safety, cleanliness, and compliance every single day. One of the most critical, and often challenging, responsibilities is maintaining healthy, balanced water chemistry. Improper levels of chlorine, pH, and other chemicals can quickly lead to cloudy water, equipment damage, or worse, unsafe swimming conditions.

If you manage a public or commercial swimming pool, you're no stranger to paperwork. Among the most critical records you must maintain are pool chemical log sheets: the daily logs that track the test results and chemical adjustments for your pools’ pH levels, chlorine concentration, and other essential water quality parameters.

If you're in charge of maintaining a commercial or public pool, you know that keeping things clean isn’t just about making it look good. It's about the health and safety of your guests, and the longevity of your pool and business. And while regular skimming, brushing, and chemical balancing are essential for your cleaning routine, there's another tool in your maintenance toolbox that deserves the...

If you're managing a commercial pool that's been drained and is now showing signs of algae growth, you're not alone. Whether it's a seasonal closure, maintenance period, or part of a renovation schedule, it's surprisingly common for empty pools to develop algae. And in a commercial setting, that can be more than just an eyesore—it’s a maintenance headache, a health code risk, and potentially a...

Public Pools Need Accuracy, Security, and Efficiency As a commercial pool owner, maintaining water quality is paramount. Whether it's for a hotel, gym, apartment complex, HOA, or community center, ensuring that your pool water is clean, safe, and chemically balanced is essential for the health of your swimmers and the longevity of your pool.

We all love a fun or relaxing swim–especially on a hot summer day–and public pools across the country ensure we can all have access to this pastime. Yet as a body of water open to the public that often sees hundreds of swimmers in a day, we’ve all wondered: are public pools clean? Are they really always safe to swim in?

When it comes to operating and managing swimming pools, disinfection is king. It’s a requirement for Health Departments, municipalities, counties, and states everywhere. By far, the vast majority of outdoor pools operating in the US use chlorine as their primary disinfecting agent to kill and control bacteria, viruses, algae, and other microscopic contaminants.

It’s common knowledge that keeping swimming pools clean, healthy to swim in, and safe requires chemicals, but once you really get into it, swimming pool chemicals get complicated, fast. You are, after all, maintaining a medium- to large-sized body of water that is frequently exposed to the weather, the elements, and to large volumes of different people bringing in a mix of bacteria, germs,...

What does pool stabilizer do? The answer is both simple and (chemically) complex at the same time, so in this blog, we’re going to help break down why the pools you’re managing likely need pool stabilizer, how it works and what it does, when to add it and how to add it safely, and how to test for pool stabilizer levels.

Swimming pool resurfacing, also referred to as re-plastering, is a normal part of a commercial pool’s lifecycle. For commercial pools of all kinds, including apartment communities and hotels, resurfacing should be part of your pools’ long-term maintenance plan.