This is an instructional video made by Teddy Bear Pools & Spas for Closing your Above Ground Pool.
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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Cause Of Cloudy Pool Water And How To Fix It
Cloudy pool water is a problem a lot of pool owners have to deal with during the warm months their pool is in use. There are four top reasons why pool water gets cloudy.
Poor water chemistry being one of the top reasons why your pool ends up with cloudy pool water. This is an issue for people using chemicals to clean their pools. A low chlorine reading, lack of shocking a pool, high pH reading, the alkalinity and/or hardness of the water or any such combination of all of the above can result in cloudy pool water.
Microscopic particles can also be an issue if your filter does not catch particles that are very tiny. These microscopic particles which can be bacteria, dirt or debris will remain suspended in your pool water causing cloudy pool water.
Poor filtration is a huge problem when your filter is dirty and needs to be clean or your filtration system is not working properly this will also lead to cloudy pool water.
Lastly environmental factors can lead to variations needed with pool chemicals to correct problems such as rain, wind, pets, and swimmer load, debris carried into the pool by winds such as leaves, lawn clippings or dirt particles.
Believe or not but the use of chemicals in pools require to be very precise in exactly how much you add a little to much of something or a little less of something can alter the appearance of your pool water resulting in cloudy pool water. The chemicals we also use to keep our pools sparkling clean also tend to come with a risk all on there own. Chlorine has been linked to various increased risks with certain health issues. Bladder and rectal cancer being two main health problems that poses increased risk with the use of chlorine. Chlorine has also been linked to an increase with children's asthma.
As you see cloudy pool water is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to keeping your pool clean, running efficiently and safely. Not to mention the majority of the issues is because of chemicals and how those chemicals work. When a mess up of chemicals happens it can end up being pretty costly to fix a cloudy water mess. Many times it requires you to add more types of chemicals to your pool and running your filter for periods of up to 24 hours straight.
Most people do not like the idea of adding chemicals to their pool on such a grand scale. As there are many ways to safely maintain your pool and to cut down on pool problems such as cloudy ways very few products on the market can eliminate these problems all together with out being overly costly.
Cloudy pool water can be avoided by simply changing the method you use to properly maintain your pool.
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
How to Makeover and Enhance a Rooftop Deck
Flat rooftops can offer great opportunities for conversion into attractive entertaining or relaxing areas, but contemplating a vast expanse of drab concrete or asphalt and envisaging how to attack such a problem, can be a rather daunting prospect.
Two important points need to be considered at the outset. Firstly, any objects on a roof top which are not securely fixed, need to be of sufficient weight or size that they will not move or blow away in strong winds.
Secondly, if there is a waterproof membrane on the roof, extreme care must be taken that the membrane is not punctured or damaged in any way. You will probably need to consult the building owner before placing any objects on the rooftop to ensure you are not faced with any potential liability issues.
The most important thing that then needs to be decided is what to install on the surface. If there's a waterproof membrane, then your choices are rather limited as it's obviously not possible to lay conventional porcelain tiles.
You could however lay interlocking plastic or rubber tiles although they would need to be of sufficient weight and securely joined so as not to blow away in strong winds.
One of the best options may be to cover the area with interlocking wood deck tiles. These tiles are generally manufactured using the same high durability lumber species as traditional decks but have wood slats screwed to an integral plastic base with inbuilt connecting tabs. The weight of the tiles and the gaps between the wood slats ensure the tile are generally unaffected by strong winds (except in areas prone to tornados or hurricanes). The tiles are typically available in 12" x 12" modules and are laid by just snapping the tiles together (see for example http://www.ezydeck.net). The gaps between the wood slats and the plastic mesh base also allows water to drain freely away so that pools of water do not lay on the rooftop.
The plastic bases of these tiles have multiple "feet" which distribute any load evenly over the surface below. A geotextile could be laid under the tiles as an extra precaution against membrane damage or if the building owner required extra assurance that the tiles would not damage the membrane.
Some manufacturers produce tiles in a variety of different designs, so it is possible to create borders, centerpieces, feature areas etc. to suit your individual preference. Or you could use different designs to divide the area in to several sections depending on how you plan to use the rooftop.
As well as the wood tiles, porcelain interlocking tiles are also now available which can provide additional opportunities for creativity in designing the total rooftop landscape. These tiles are designed to interlock with the wood tiles, so for example you could have a dining area paved in the ceramic tiles where tables and chairs are situated, surrounded by wood tiles.
If possible, try to divide the area into "rooms" by using a row of tubs with bushy plants, some trellis, modular fencing etc. With the addition of some large pots, attractive plants, and maybe a few favorite pieces of sculpture in strategic spots, that forsaken roof top can easily become an attractive and useful relaxing an entertaining area.
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Saturday, December 3, 2011
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Friday, November 25, 2011
Rebuild Your Algae Filled Swimming Pool Part 2: Pool Pumps
This video is part 2 of 7 and shows you the process of how to install three Pentair WhisperFlo pumps. See how the plumbing is set up and a quick overview of how they are wired.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Healthy Swimming Pool Water is Your Choice
CHOICES: It is probably safe to say that not one of every one hundred pool owners understand their pool equipment, their pool water, how and what to test for, and about the different disinfectants that are available to use with their pool. It takes on a short study period to learn about pH, acid demand, total alkalinity, calcium hardness and clarity.
Remember everything in nature is going against the pool owner and must be considered when maintaining the pool water. Heat accelerates loss of chlorine and promotes algae growth. Wind carries new algae spores and debris into the pool. Sun increases evaporation and reduces the effectiveness of chlorination. Evaporation causes t build-up of scale on pool tile and deposits a residue of solids below the waterline. Rain introduces additional algae and other pollutants. Bather Use increases the demand for disinfection.
This article will briefly cover the choices you have for your pool water disinfectant.
SKIN ADSORPTION: The swimmer should consider skin adsorption when choosing the pool disinfectant. I've often heard comments that excessive swimming or bathing will dry out the skin. Actually, it's quite the opposite.
Your skin, in contact with the water, absorbs water rather then drying out. It's the chemical contaminants, chiefly chlorine, which because of their oxidizing or bleaching ability cause loss of body oils and dry, irritated skin.
The skin is probably the primary route of human exposure to water pollutants. The American Journal of Public Health states that a minimum of 83 percent and possibly 91 percent of the chemicals entering the body came through the skin
Without an adequate disinfectant, algae, viruses, fungi, and other micro-organisms can originate, grow exponentially, and infest the average pool in less than one hour. Believe- it-or-not algae can double itself, in a poorly managed pool, every four to five hours and bacteria can double itself ever four to five minutes. It's a scientific fact that one e-coli micro-organism can multiply into twenty trillion e-coli micro-organisms in twenty four hours. Believe-it-or-not! Diseases too numerous to mention affecting the ears, eyes, nose, throat, skin and internal organs are often spread from one person to another in swimming pools.
CHLORINE: A greenish-yellow, poisonous, gaseous element with a suffocating odor, widely used as a disinfectant. Chlorine is toxic and will burn your eyes, irritate your skin and damage hair. When chlorine combines with an organic spore such as skin, sweat or even a leaf spore it forms trihalomethanes that are twenty one times more carcinogic than is the chlorine itself.
BROMINE: A dark reddish-brown fuming element with a suffocating odor. A chemical which reacts like chlorine but is not as abrasive to humans. The Provincial Board of Health of Alberta banned the use of Bromine as a disinfectant in public spas because 95 percent of the spa related skin irritations came from spas using Bromine.
OZONE: An unstable form of oxygen with a pungent odor. Commonly found as a gas which dissipates into the air very quickly. Ozone is fast acting but leaves no sanitation residual in the water to combat bacteria and algae growth. It must be used with another disinfectant therefore it only reduces the amount of disinfectant used. It will dissolve rubber washers in pumps, filters and pool fixtures resulting in leaks and costly repairs.
SALT WATER DEVICES; Salt is 40 percent sodium and 60 percent chloride. Devices that utilize salt create a chemical reaction which actually manufactures chlorine in your pool. The chlorine then produces the same reactions that chlorine bought in stores does. Sodium hypochlorite chlorine is more abrasive to humans and pool equipment than the calcium hypochlorite that is bought in stores. As you already know sodium is hypertensive.
HYDROGEN PEROXIDE: The products are non-toxic and not unhealthy but neither are they healthy. Hydrogen peroxide is by far the most expensive way to disinfect your pool especially when you have to shock. It is also harder to manage.
ULTRA VIOLET LIGHT: Is effective killing bacteria in clear water but like ozone it only reduces the need for a disinfectant. It leaves no residual in the water by itself.
COPPER IONIZATION: The only disinfectant that makes your water healthy. Copper has 19 health benefits among them is heart health, blood pressure, bone development, nerve development, cancer prevention, and the propagation of oxygen through out the blood system. No other disinfectant has even one health benefit. There is no need for chlorine, shock, algaecides or cyanuric acid stabilizer. Copper ionization is the least expensive and requires less time to maintain and monitor than other disinfectants.
Now hopefully you have been able to compare and make an intelligent decision on what
disinfectant you want to use. But by all means use one or the other as the consequences of a pool without disinfection is much more dangerous. The expense of your disinfectant is small compared to those consequences.
Friday, October 28, 2011
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