Frank and Jacque discuss how to cool your pool down in the summer and overcome some of the difficulties pool service techs and pool owners deal with due to the heat and swim season.

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00:00 - 03:30 introduction

03:31 trip through Waxahachie, how do you pronounce it, funny story

07:00 - how to chill your pool. Heat pumps. running heat pumps at night makes them much more effective in chilling the pool, but you must also run your filter and circulation during the heat of the day. Pros and con of an electric heat pump

12:38- evaporative chillers, Glacier. use evaporation to chill water. Pros and cons of an evaporative chiller.

16:30- other ways to chill your pool. water falls and water features during cooler night temperatures will cool your pool. It will also affect your water chemistry.

19:00- heat related issues during the summer season. hotter weather and more sun does require more sanitizer. algae is more active, there are more contaminants being introduced into the water, check your free and total chlorine. supplement chlorine with shock if needed. maintain proper chlorine residuals.

23:20- tab pools you need to watch stabilizer or cya levels. cya will rise during summer with more tab use. adjust chlorine residual as needed to maintain 7.5% or 5% in free chlorine of your stabilizer level.

25:30- green story global cya remover appears to be working well

26:10- salt pools. increase production time for salt water chlorine generators to keep up. increase production percentage.

28:40- benefits of a variable speed pump. make the switch

29:00- watch your filter pressure, keep filter clean and backwashed, keep skimmer and pump baskets clean.

30:20- make sure pool is circulating well. eliminate dead spots.

30:54- borates, enzymes, phosphate removers.