One of the primary factors in the Bicarb Start process is maintaining the pool water pH at or below 8.3…
Establishing good pool water chemistry standards helps provide guidance for proper water care, and to help ensure that pool water…
Beginning in 2004, a series of plaster research studies were released by the National Plasterers Council (NPC), which they instigated…
For 50 years, it has been common for pool service companies to successfully maintain residential pools on a once-a-week visitation…
One of the arts or skills of the pool plastering trade is properly timing the troweling process. If troweling is…
When typical balanced tap water fills a new uncured plaster pool, some of the plaster material can be dissolved and…
Many of us may have had the unfortunate experience of adding soda ash “wrong” to pool water, resulting in a…
There appears to be some consensus to wait 30 days before adding salt to new plaster pools. Yet some in…
Muriatic acid can dissolve and etch a plaster surface, even quartz aggregate pools. While genuine quartz aggregate is not affected…
Probably everyone in the pool industry has the heard the statement; “Water chemistry (aggressive water) has the most profound effect…