Notes
Notes on Austin pools
Notes from Sullivan's Pool Service on keeping a pool in Austin — the things we end up explaining on the phone often enough to write down. All of it is specific to this city rather than to pools in general: the fill water here is hard enough to scale a heater, the ground moves under half the metro, and an Austin summer does things to chlorine that a generic guide will not prepare you for.
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· 5 min read
Keeping an Austin pool alive through the summer
An Austin summer changes three things about your pool at once: water temperature climbs past 90°F, which roughly doubles chlorine demand; evaporation runs at an inch or more a day, which concentrates calcium and stabilizer; and bather load peaks. Almost every summer pool problem in this city traces back to one of those three, and the fixes are unglamorous.
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· 6 min read
Five things that go wrong with spas, and what they mean
Most spa problems are volume problems wearing a disguise. A spa holds a fraction of a pool’s water at twenty degrees warmer, so every bather, every hour of heat and every dose of chemical has an outsized effect. Cloudy water, a failure to heat, foaming, a chlorine smell and weak jets are the five we get called about most, and four of them are usually the same underlying cause.
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· 6 min read
Which pool upgrades are actually worth the money
On an Austin pool, one upgrade pays for itself and the rest are comfort purchases. A variable-speed pump is the one: power draw falls roughly with the cube of speed, so running long and slow moves the same water for a fraction of the electricity, and Austin pools run long hours. Everything else — salt, automation, lighting, heating — is worth buying for what it does, not for what it saves.
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