Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:23:35 -0800 http://www.backintheswim.com/directory/ Swimming Pool Service Directory en-us http://www.backintheswim.com/directory/images/logo.gif http://www.backintheswim.com/directory/ bryant_memphis@yahoo.com http://www.backintheswim.com/directory/Article20.html When your chlorine feeder just stops working. The first sign is you notice that your pool does not look right. After testing the water you can see that the reading is low. Last week you added a few pucks just like every other week. So what do we know? We know the reading is low and it should be much higher. I helped this pool owner over the phone. The first and most important point is safety! If you loaded your feeder a few days ago and it's not working that means the chlorine has been trapped in the feeder for that time. Chlorine is a green gas, a deadly gas! You should expect when you open it to see a green tint to the pucks and water, and if not careful you could be overcome by chlorine gas. You need a plan... here it is. Turn off your pump, open the feeder while holding your breath, leave the area for thirty minutes. Allowing the time for the gas to dissipate. This is serious! Not the time to be tough and just take the eye burn and breathe the gas. You may end up in the hospital or worse. This feeder was the rainbow 300 off line. The one I sell to my customers most often. Generally speaking when it fails to deliver chlorine to the pool it's because the flow through the feeder has stopped. The way this chlorine feeder is plumbed in could cause this, the line going into the canister, through the control valve is unfiltered water. (This is normal correct installation) That will be what we check first, taking the line loose right in front of the metering valve on the side of the unit. Once it's off look for any small debris that is trapped in the valve inlet. OK that looks good nothing there, next the tubing could be the problem, often chlorine tubing will look fine from the outside however it could be collapsed on the inside. While the tubing is still disconnected turn on the pump and check the flow from the tubing, it should be a full stream and coming out at a good pressure. If not remove it and replace it. Next you will need to remove the chlorine from the canister, a bucket close by will be helpful. If you can just turn over the feeder and pour into the bucket, if not some coat hanger wire may be used to fish out the pucks. Next, remove the tubing from the 90 degree elbow on the bottom of the unit. Again turn on the pump and see if water flows freely from the end of the tubing, this water will not be as strong and the flow from the first tubing we checked. That is normal. OK we have flow. Next is that elbow on the bottom of the feeder, this devise has a check valve inside it. It has a small ball with a spring that allows flow only in one direction, out of the feeder. Take off the elbow you should be able to see the ball at the top of the threaded end, take a small screw driver or a piece of wire to see if the ball will depress into the elbow. It should move freely down and back up. We have found the problem! The check valve does not move, it's stuck. It should be replaced, cleaning it may work for a short while. The check valve has become gummy, with residue from the chlorine. This combined with the fact we are using unfiltered water to supply the unit has caused it to fail. With all the tubing clear and the flow valve and check valve clear the feeder should work like new again. What I do with my weekly service pools to try to prevent this gumming problem is I never add more chlorine than I think it will use in a week. When I arrive after the week has passed I hope to find no chlorine in the feeder, still having a good test reading in the water. 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Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:22:48 -0800 http://www.backintheswim.com/directory/Article15.html Once again it's time to have you look at my new friends blog. The Pool Guy I do find it a little interesting that none of the salt system manufacturers or their agents are going after this guy. Could it be he is saying things that they simply can't defend? The following was copied form his blog. find it here The Pool Biz Stray Currents Are Dissolving Your Salt Swimming Pool. Sunday, March 11, 2007 I finally see how the manufacturers get away with selling you something that does so much damage to your pool while their sales continue to increase and no one comes along and shuts them down. It’s because it’s hard work finding out about this stuff. And that’s what they’re counting on. They’re depending on the fact that none of us in the business who work on the user end of these Trojan Horses will have time to do more than bitch to each other about what their product is doing to all the pools, and that you pool owners, since you’re only looking at one pool, won’t have anything to compare it to and won’t ever draw the conclusion that if you get shocked when you reach for the ladder or hand rail and after extensive and expensive troubleshooting an electrician tells you that it’s because your bonding lugs have dissolved off your bonding wire, that it’s all because of your salt system. Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:06:26 -0800 http://www.backintheswim.com/directory/Article14.html So I cleaned two pools today, yeah I know that's not much. It's January, ya know, winter time... my feet are wet and cold. I'll do a couple more tomorrow, all that is beside the point. One pool looked great when I was done, the other looked OK. Both about the same size with about the same amount of leaves and debris. The difference was, on one I had enough water to vacuum the fine dust to waste and backwash the filter. The other only enough water to backwash. Last week both were told I would need water this week to do my job. As you can already tell one had the water required the other did not. Neither of them actually added water however. The one who had enough always has enough all year round. Because he uses one of these. Automatically Maintain Water Level! Keep your pool water level stable around the clock! So if you find notes from the pool guy that say ... Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:31:57 -0800 http://www.backintheswim.com/directory/Article12.html This site has managed to overcome the missing key words on the page itself as far as Google goes. As you can see, there is no text on the page. I searched for "swimming pool service san diego" no quotes. Clearly those words do not appear on this page. In the search results it came up # 4 of over 500,000 results. Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:34:49 -0800 http://www.backintheswim.com/directory/Article11.html I have said in my blog and here on this site my goal is in part to help my fellow pool guys do better in online searches. First I want to say this website is a fine one. I am only pointing out how it is over looked by Google for example. It is beautiful and once you arrive at the site it does get the point across. The problem is however one that won't go away over time. If the potential customers use Google, this site will be over looked. Assuming they use common search terms, if searching for the site by name it will come up. However a new pool buyer won't know the name of the company or the website name/url until he searches for it. Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:09:15 -0800 http://www.backintheswim.com/directory/Article10.html Check this out! This new invention is the winner. I'm impressed,well for now. I've seen many new items come down the pike for swimming pools. Right now I wish a few of my weekly service swimming pools had this gizmo. So just what did it win you ask? ABC's The New Inventors program declared it so. Like I said above I have a couple of weekly service pools that could use this right now. Perhaps not too far in the future I will see this leaf trap eating the leaves I now remove by net. About the Inventor John Bailey is 40 years old and lives in Dundas Valley (a suburb of Sydney, NSW). He’s a family man with an interest in boats, pools, beer and electronics (not all at the same time, we hope). John is an electrician by trade but he works for a company that runs support systems for various telephone companys’ text messaging systems. He’s also a home brewer, which goes well with pools. Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:08:00 -0800 http://www.backintheswim.com/directory/Article9.html He's no fan... and that is an under statement! His handle over at Blogspot is The Pool Guy I have his permission to reprint as much of his blog as I wish... here is a very short recap he has provided: Let’s look at some of the things I’ve talked about in this blog. Let’s look for the lies and half truths. 1. First and easiest is the Level of Taste. They all say it’s somewhere around 3,500 ppm sodium chloride. You can find that statement on nearly every salt system marketing brochure and website. But the United States Government Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water says it’s 250 ppm. But “well below the level of taste!” sells a lot more salt systems than “fourteen times higher than the level of taste!” An interesting side note here is that I was conversing via e-mail with a Salt Rep and I mentioned the EPA standard, and he came back with, “I have to admit and thank you though, as you are causing me to reflect on what I present in my seminars, and am forcing me to research more of the "facts" related to salt read it here and then go read it all! The Pool Guy Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:50:04 -0800 http://www.backintheswim.com/directory/Article8.html Want to share your tips, tricks or professional advice? The WikiHow site could be the place for you. Category:Swimming Pools Spas and Hot Tubs Need some answers about swimming pool troubles? There could be some help to be found on the WikiHow site. I checked out the site and there are some good articles... there is some nonsense too... there is some info that starts out well but leaves unanswered questions as well as omitted, overlooked information. Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:53:54 -0800 http://www.backintheswim.com/directory/Article6.html You need a website to promote your swimming pool business. Swimming pool owners, the people you want to reach all use the information super highway. You may already have your tools, truck, equipment, phone line, business cards and some customers. You may work hard to advertise your biz, telling everyone you know, passing out cards, signs on your truck, even a newspaper ad here and there. All that is great but it may not be enough. To have a listing here in this directory you need a website. Read the rest of this article and I will show you how to get that site free. Here is a sample of what I am talking about. opens new page Tue, 01 Jan 2008 10:08:19 -0800 http://www.backintheswim.com/directory/Article4.html   Great you have a good business and a killer website. You know swimming pools and the swimming pool biz. After investing time and money in a website it does not seem to be bringing the interest you had hoped.Well first off unless you have some kind of tracking you will never know who and how, as far as website visitors go. I am not talking about a click counter either. I am talking about solid stats that will tell you who, when, where and how. Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:05:51 -0800 http://www.backintheswim.com/directory/Article3.html From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, or simply a pool, is an artificially enclosed body of water intended for swimming or water-based recreation. There are many standard sizes; the largest and deepest is the Olympic size. A pool can be built either above or in the ground, and from materials such as metal, plastic or concrete. Mon, 31 Dec 2007 07:46:26 -0800 http://www.backintheswim.com/directory/Article1.html pH Balance Proper water balance is essential to clear, sanitary and comfortable pool water. Factors such as Total Alkalinity and Calcium Hardness help determine the overall balance of the water. However, pH is the most important factor in water balance and is also most likely to show significant change from day to day. Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:20:24 -0800