100-Year-Old Pool Technology and Naked Ankles

After too many years in the pool biz and the chemicals that keep pools disinfected and sparkling, I’ve developed a physical inability to tolerate most synthetic or manufactured chemicals.

Preventative Maintenance & Swimming Pool Leaks

Leaking equipment on your swimming pool is costly and wasteful, but

Chlorinated Pools, Your Child and Allergies

Chlorinated swimming pools may be worse than second-hand cigarette smoke to kids with allergies.

Sam Swims In Salt. Now Sam Wants a Pet Dolphin.

Are salt-water pools really chlorine free?

Peeing in the Swimming Pool & Bladder Cancer! My Worst Nightmare.

  Let it be known that I DO NOT SWIM IN PUBLIC POOLS.  The following news piece recently crossed my desk and ripped open my nightmare of being tossed into a public swimming pool that’s not blue, but a golden urine-yellow.  That’s right, folks, good, old-fashioned pee in the pool. That combined with everyone else’s

Scale Build-Up On Pool Tiles–A Case of Mini-Stalagmites & Elbow Grease

Dateline Brian.   Please, help! I’ve tried everything to remove hard water build-up from the tile around my pool. I’ve had no luck, and I’m at a loss.  Thought you might have an answer for me. Well Brian, the Pool and Spa Master does have an answer–actually several answers.  Sadly, they all involve the age old cure