5 Common Swimming Pool Tales Debunked

Doheny's Pool Supplies has a list of the top 5 myths that you may not know:

1) Chlorine is what turns your blond hair green....

The bottom part of the slide valve for my pool filter broke off some time ago (month or so). Normally, I could just fish the broken piece out of the tubing that it broke...

Can some one help me configure the valves so that the system is running properly

GUIDE TO BEING A POOL PRO: Which pool chemicals to use and when to use them!

Sanitizers

What are sanitizers?
Sanitizers are used to kill bacteria and...

Ok - I remember our above ground pool from childhood - we had a DE filter and all the chemicals I remember my Dad adding were powered chlorine and possibly baking soda,...

Hello pool gurus! Water chemistry newbie here. So I just set up a small Intex 16' x 42" 3700 gal pool, with Intex 1600 GPH sand filter and salt water chlorinator....

Hi We just bought a home with a in ground swimming pool. I am trying to find the backwash valve on the filter but i cannot find it. Is there any other mechanism to...

Hello everyone.

We have a rectangular inground pool (16'x34', 81,000 L). For the past few years, since our inline chlorinator broke, we have used regular addition of...

Hello,
I have a pool 10m x 5m with an average depth of 1.3m .
What size/capacity pump should this size pool need?

Thanks
Alan

We started filling our pool up all is good until the water reaches just below the skimmers then it starts draining very fast the pump is off the sump skimmers and vac...

We live in central Florida. Our pool has a birdcage, protecting it from bugs, leaves etc. It also has a bubble type cover. Here I just want to know that if we will be...

Hi everyone, just bought a house with a below ground pool so learning very quickly at the moment. My question is that my pump is running but my pressure gauge on the...

Hi there!

I'm in charge of the swimming pool and I've read that the filter has to run for 6/12 hours a day, but the problem is that my mother won't let me turn the pump...

I bought a house with approx 10,000gal pool. Ingroung, colored cement. It has curves so I'm kinda guessing on the amount of water in there, but it's pretty small....

Hi all,

I have an Intex 15' above ground circular pool which I have added a 9kW heater and decent filter pump. The question I have is that a friend of mine has a 12'...

Hello! We moved into our house last year, and have been thoroughly enjoying our inground pool and spa. They are both run on the same heater and filtering system. We had...

I know nothing about pools so this is probably a stupid question but how do you turn a pool filter on? My dad is away (internationally so I can't reach him) and he said...

New place has an infinity pool - however, there seems to be a problem with the water overflowing out of the big tank.
There is a big blue tank that is about 1.5m wide x...

I have a Auqa Critter and I am not sure how to use it or hook it up to our pump! We have a intex ultra frame 16x48 pool with a intex Krystal clear sand filter pump!!...

I just bought one of those 10x30 pop up pools today, after spending the day filling and leveling I now can't figure out how much of each chemical to put in and when to...