How-to Guides
Pool-care know-how and equipment guides from the ProTuff team.
Robotic Rescue: Troubleshooting Cleaner Stalls, Overcurrent, and Water-Detected Errors
This guide covers robotic pool cleaner repair the way a service tech works it: safety isolation first, then the cheap causes, then the expensive ones.
Autumn Countdown: 10 Things to Do Two Weeks Before You Close the Pool
Most pool owners treat closing day as a single Saturday of work. That is exactly why so many of them open in April to a green swamp, a cracked filter...
Is Your Sand Filter Sluggish? How to Deep Flush the Sand Bed and Break Up Mud-Balls
Skipping deep cleaning for months lets the bed calcify into what is effectively sandstone.
Is Your Heater Wasting Gas? How to Spot Soot and Combustion Problems
Incomplete combustion does more than waste money. It produces carbon monoxide, and the soot it leaves behind is corrosive enough to eat through copper...
Safety First: The Do’s and Don’ts of Refilling Your Chlorine Feeder
After heavy rain or a storm. Rain dilutes your chemistry and washes in organic debris, so a feeder alone will not recover the pool.
Beyond the Hose: When and How to Chemically Soak Your Filter Cartridges
Learning how to clean pool filter cartridges with a proper chemical soak is the difference between cartridges that last three to five years and cartridges...
Too Hot to Swim? How to Use Your Heat Pump to Cool Your Pool
By mid-July the water that felt perfect in May can turn into a lukewarm bath. Once your pool climbs past the mid-80s, swimming stops being refreshing...
The Hang Test: A 5-Minute Pro Secret for Troubleshooting Polaris and Hayward Suction Cleaners
Your suction cleaner is crawling the deep end like it’s stuck in molasses, climbing two feet up the wall and sliding back down, or parking in one corner…
Storm Mode: How to Program Super-Chlorination on OmniLogic, IntelliCenter, and iAquaLink After June Rains
If you run a salt pool on Hayward OmniLogic, Pentair IntelliCenter, or Jandy iAquaLink, your automation panel already has a one-tap weapon for this exact…
National Water Safety Month: Check Your Pool Drain Covers for VGB Compliance Right Now
Pool drain covers are the only thing standing between your pump's suction and a child's body. They are passive, plastic, and they expire.
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