Reading Time: 5 minutes The ABC’s of Shocking Your Swimming Pool Why is Shock needed? Shocking your swimming pool is an important part of keeping your pool water clean. Shocking is the act of adding chlorine to your pool to raise your pool’s chlorine level quickly and at much higher rates than normal, otherwise known as super-chlorinating. Normal chlorine levels in… Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes Offline Chlorinator Fitting Fails Over time you will experience offline chlorinator fitting fails. These were a couple that I found during a routine inspection of the offline chlorinator. What kind of failures This article deals with saddle fittings, compression nuts and saddle clamps for automatic chlorinators that are similar to the Hayward CL220 and any generic chlorinators… Read More »
Reading Time: 6 minutes Pool Equipment Tune Up It’s pool season again and time for a pool equipment tune up. I don’t want to experience problems all season long. So it would be a good thing to visit each piece of equipment and check out those things that can cause problems during the season. Safety First Before you start… Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutes Troubleshooting the offline automatic chlorinator Other than leaks, troubleshooting the offline automatic chlorinator is a matter of checking water flow. That means that in this system there are four points where water flow can become restricted. Problems will always be a lack of flow. The main problem with this type of chlorinator is that it can plug up. Water fed… Read More »