Summary: Essential pool contamination procedures protect health, ensure compliance, and minimize downtime from fecal, vomit, or blood incidents. ImageCourtesyCaddyShack

Summary: Ensure safety, compliance & efficiency with accurate pool chemical log sheets. Go digital to cut costs, save time & protect swimmers. Operating a commercial or public swimming pool comes with a high level of responsibility. Whether you're managing a hotel pool, a community aquatic center, or an apartment or neighborhood pool, maintaining water quality is a matter of public health and...

Summary: How to winterize your commercial pool: Follow 8 key steps to protect water quality, prevent damage, and ensure a smooth reopening for commercial and public pools.

For many of us, renting a home with a pool is the ultimate vacation dream: a private oasis to relax, swim, and cool off, free from crowds. But while pools are a major summer vacation perk, they also require consistent care to ensure the water remains safe and clean. Whether you're renting for a week or the whole season, understanding basic pool maintenance can help prevent health risks and costly...

It’s not too far a leap to say that cyanuric acid, otherwise known as pool stabilizer, is just as critical for pool water chemistry and safety as chlorine. After all, without it, chlorine would rapidly degrade under the sun’s UV rays, causing the need to replace it nearly constantly, driving up your chemical costs, and weakening its ability to disinfect. Thankfully, cyanuric acid can bind to...

Whether you operate a “traditional” pool or a saltwater pool, you likely think of your disinfectant (typically chlorine) as your hero pool chemical. But the truth is, while yes, you absolutely have to have chlorine in the ideal range in order to disinfect and kill all the potentially harmful microorganisms and substances, pool chemistry is complicated. All parameters and chemicals, from pH to...

Managing a commercial or public pool is no small task. Between daily testing, equipment maintenance, regulatory compliance, and, of course, keeping pool guests happy and healthy, you have to stay ahead of issues that can compromise water quality, safety, or appearance.

Maintaining balanced water chemistry in commercial and public pools isn’t just a best practice—it’s a regulatory and safety necessity. One of the most overlooked yet vital components of water chemistry is pool stabilizer, also known as pool cyanuric acid (CYA). While it plays a crucial role in protecting chlorine from rapid UV degradation, improper levels can create serious problems for public...

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.