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Pete’s Painful Pools: A Therapy Session


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Mondays Down Under | Talking Pools Podcast

🔊 Hosts: Peter, Lee, and Shane

Welcome to the first Mondays Down Under of 2025! This week, Pete needs a therapy session—and you’re all invited. Brace yourself for a whirlwind of horror stories about bad pool designs, poor construction, and downright frustrating equipment installations.

This Episode’s Topics:

  • 🏊 Infinity Edge Fiasco: A green pool recovery gone wrong—because someone thought a 250L trough was enough to handle a 25,000L pool. Backwashing? Forget about it.
  • 🛠️ No Room to Move: How stepping stones, glass walls, and impossible access points make servicing pools a nightmare. Bonus: Cutting down vacuum heads just to fit!
  • 🏗️ Equipment Location Disasters: When the equipment pad is placed in the worst possible spot—like, say, behind a six-foot timber screen or buried in a basement.
  • 🌳 Heat Pump Headaches: A top-venting heat pump… completely covered by trees. Leaves and debris galore!
  • 🚗 Luxury Living, Poor Planning: Another case of a multi-million dollar property with a tiny, inconvenient trough and an impossible driveway.
  • 💦 Filter Size Madness: A 10,000L plunge pool with a 400-square-foot quad cartridge filter—because why not? Spoiler: The service price had to go up.
  • 🎮 Overcomplicated Automation: When pool control systems start responding to garage door openers and wireless doorbells, you know there’s trouble.
  • 🎨 Not Black Algae?! A pool covered in black stains—but not from algae. Pete investigates the mess and unravels the mystery.
  • 🧪 Stain Removal Science: Alum sulfate, oxalic acid, and the never-ending battle to find the best stain remover.

Listener Challenge!

If you could wave a magic wand and remove one major headache from your pool service business, what would it be? Send us an email at talkingpoolsmail.com—we’d love to hear from you!

📅 Catch us next week for more pool industry rants, laughs, and expertise!

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