When performing chemical tests of pool water, one of the most important chemical levels to measure and make note of is chlorine. Chlorine is put in commercial or public pool water for the purpose of sanitation and is a vital chemical when it comes to keeping pools clean. Without proper chlorine levels in the pool water, pools can offer a bad or even unsafe user experience.
For commercial pool owners, pool maintenance is one of the pillars of their business. When pools are your business, one of your top priorities must be keeping the pools clean and up to health codes to ensure they stay open for as much time as possible. This can be challenging, with pool and spa regulations being quite specific and strict, requiring a lot of attention from pool owners and...
A crucial part of pool water testing and maintenance is the logging of data. Pool logs with testing data are required to be kept on file by many states and their health departments. Traditionally, testing data is logged in physical paper printable pool log sheets, but this method of data logging is becoming outdated and can be quite flawed. Modern alternatives include digital data logging, which...
Pool maintenance plays a vital role in keeping pools in good operating condition and in compliance with health codes. Unfortunately, it can be quite a difficult task at times, requiring daily testing to check water chemical levels in the pool, and frequent adjustments so that the chemicals stay in the acceptable range. Particularly when using non-digital testing methods and data recording...
Maintaining a pool’s chemical balance is a task that requires serious organization and coordination. Unless this is your full time job as a pool operator, maintaining the chemical balance of several pools, especially when they are at different locations, is an even greater task, and is often too much to handle for one employee, no matter how experienced they are. This task falls on the shoulders...
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused difficult disruptions across a range of industries, with the travel and hospitality industries having been hit the worst. With the promise of widely available vaccines coming in 2021, businesses that remain viable in these industries are trying to forecast the impact on their own revenues and risk profile, and adjust accordingly. At Pool Shark H2O, we’re of course...
Why a Digital Pool Tester for Your Commercial Pool? Managing commercial pools is a demanding task. Pool management can dominate large amounts of a commercial pool owner’s time, attention, and in some cases, capital expenditures. The Pool Shark H2O app, when combined with a digital pool tester, aims to rectify this by completely changing the way commercial pools are managed and maintained.
When it comes to finding employees to take measurements of pool chemicals and make adjustments, lifeguards are the perfect candidate. At most functioning and busy public pools, lifeguards are on duty for hours at a time, allowing them to take water chemical tests several times throughout the day. Their primary responsibility as pool supervisors means they are always nearby and often available to...
