Rule Your Pool

00:00 - Introduction with Bill Drakeley, Watershapes University

01:47 - Cement cracks

05:43 - Concrete issues cause plaster issues

07:55 - What are "structural cracks"?

08:48 - Calcium nodules

12:46 - Concrete core samples

15:45 - Lack of bonding / delamination

17:21 - Bill pounds on his desk when talking about concrete

21:13 - Start with the pool foundation when diagnosing plaster problems

21:58 - Summary. Thanks for listening!

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00:00 - Introduction to Bill Drakeley

02:22 - Concrete 101: What happens when water mixes with dry cement?

04:02 - Concrete mix design (water:cement ratio)

05:18 - Compressive value (PSI)

07:49 - ACI and ASA minimum for pool concrete is 4000 PSI.

08:59 - How do you regulate PSI? Concrete mix design (water:cement ratio)

11:41 - Quality control

13:08 - Is waterproofing necessary when you have a proper, watertight concrete pool shell?

16:39 - Rapid-fire definitions

20:20 - Types of cracks

21:56 - Hydrating vs. Curing

29:15 - How to prep concrete before plaster

32:27 - Watertight vs. waterproof

33:42 - Summary: do your homework.  Thanks for listening!

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00:00 - An extra-long intro, complete with Jarred's new microphone and some housekeeping topics.

01:24 - Housekeeping: We're teaching with Watershapes University. WU C3611, November 12 and 13 in Las Vegas: Essential Plaster Workshop. And we're participating in Swim Across America, September 24 in Dallas. You can contribute to our team at swimacrossamerica.org/goto/orenda.

03:38 - Check out the chlorine and CYA chart here: https://blog.orendatech.com/chlorine-ph-and-cya-relationships

04:55 - When you introduce CYA into the water, pH no longer controls the strength of chlorine (%HOCl)!!

08:23 - Chlorine strength is determined by the FC:CYA ratio. It's only a matter of time until health departments recognize this.

10:58 - At a high enough pH, OCl- will break away from CYA and can be destroyed by sunlight. Focus on your pH ceiling to avoid this fate.

13:50 - Simplifying the complex

15:36 - The Orenda program takes these overlapping factors into account, so you do not need to understand all of the chemistry. We've taken things into consideration for you. Just follow the plan and the chemistry will behave.

18:05 - Paradigm shifts are never comfortable

18:42 - Summary. Thanks for listening!

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00:00 - Intro

02:18 - Housekeeping: WU class 3611 at the Int'l Show, and swimacrossamerica.org/goto/orenda.

04:55 - The Orenda Philosophy

07:38 - Algaecides (except chlorine) leave behind long-term byproducts that will eventually conflict with chlorine

11:33 - Pools per gallon, starting with Orenda products

11:56 - CV-600/700 pools per gallon

15:45 - PR-10,000 pools per gallon

18:27 - CE-Clarifier pools per gallon

21:05 - SC-1000 pools per gallon

22:06 - Acid pools per gallon

24:47 - Changes to acid dosing in the 3.0 Orenda Calculator

26:04 - Summary. Thanks for listening!

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00:00 - Another long intro, reminding listeners about Swim Across America, and WU C3611 at the Int'l Pool & Spa show in Vegas this November.

03:34 - Orenda is neither pro-borate, nor anti-borate. We don't find them necessary, but we don't criticize those who use them responsibly either.

05:41 - Never exceed 50 ppm borate in your water, for toxicity reasons.

07:46 - What are borates?

08:49 - Bicarbonate/carbonate alkalinity and its pKa value of 6.14 pH.

09:52 - Boric acid/Borate and its pKa value of 9.2 pH.

11:22 - Borates buffer against the rise in pH by taking a hydroxyl ion (OH-). This is the opposite of what bicarbonate alkalinity does.

13:05 - Borate algaestat claims

13:52 - Borate water clarity claims

14:40 - Borate toxicity and availabiliy in California

15:40 - Use properly labeled products for their intended use

17:15 - Why borates are in the Orenda App? They impact the LSI.

18:10 - Summary. Thanks for listening!

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00:00 - An extra-long intro, complete with Jarred's new microphone and some housekeeping topics.

06:39 - There's a difference between using chlorine and losing chlorine.

09:01 - With CYA in the water, pH does not control chlorine strength, but at a high enough pH, OCl- breaks away from CYA and can be lost to sunlight.

11:42 - Chlorine demand is both the sanitizer demand and oxidant demand. Let's start with the sanitizer demand.

13:29 - Oxidant demand, starting with metals

15:35 - Nitrogen compounds

23:47 - Non-living organics

28:38 - Are you being proactive?

30:44 - Jarred's closing

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00:00 - Intro

00:44 - Orenda 3.0 features new, improved formulas. Most of the update was about improving the formulas.

01:43 - The LSI reference chart is the basis for most LSI calculators.

02:52 - The old Orenda app extrapolated within the LSI dosing chart to be more accurate.

04:39 - The new Orenda calculator is more true to the Saturation Index, and that's why the LSI results will be slightly different than before. They are more precise now.

05:53 - Dosing calculator formula upgrades

07:20 - You can now select your preferred acid and chlorine types

08:26 - Dry chemicals are by weight, liquids are by volume. This is because dry chemicals of the same volume can have different weights.

09:40 - Use a graduated dry pool chemical scoop that shows you different lines for what one pound of each chemical is in volume.

09:59 - Summary. Thanks for listening!

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00:00 - Intro

01:53 - Our annual meeting made light of some costly mistakes

02:13 - The two mistakes to explain are the premature Orenda 3.0 release and the Startup Barrel Platform

03:24 - Without customer feedback, we could not have found the bugs as quickly as we have. Your feedback is incredibly valuable!

07:13 - We are discontinuing the Startup Barrel Platform

07:27 - Giving credit where credit is due: Lupe, Dave, Dave, Molinari Pools, and PurAqua

10:16 - The platform became cost prohibitive, and even if we wanted to make more, we cannot reliably get the parts

12:27 - Too much of the platform was out of our control, and it is officially discontinued

12:57 - Summary. Thanks for listening, and thanks for your patience with Orenda and our mistakes.

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00:00 - Intro

02:14 - Our audience is becoming massive

02:43 - We built this app as an investment in you. Paying it forward to help the industry and every pool owner

06:01 - We make our money on selling chemicals, but this calculator is for everyone, whether you buy our chemicals or not

06:36 - We insisted on this calculator being the most accurate pool calculator in the world

08:28 - Borate is now included in the LSI calculator

12:30 - New secondary readings

15:28 - The Mac-daddy of features: future alkalinity

17:29 - New toggles to select the type of chlorine(s) and acid you use

19:54 - Three versions of the app: Android, iOS and now the web calculator.

22:16 - The user survey when you first open the app is completely anonymous, and it helps us cater the app to our users.

26:16 - Summary...and Jarred's attempted coup-de-tat. Thanks for listening!

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00:00 - Intro

00:36 - The URL is ask.orendatech.com

01:55 - We get a ton of phone calls, and most of them are questions we get every week.

02:35 - Don't see your question answered? Submit your question at the top of the web page.

04:04 - Jarred asks a question we actually haven't yet answered, and shows how to submit a question.

08:12 - The help center can be found from anywhere on our website, using a link in both the header menu and the footer of each page.

08:29 - Summary - thanks for listening!

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