The Deep End Pool Podcast

Ben Forest of Pal industries, known for their LED lighting solutions, discusses their new full inverter heat pump, and some of their landscape lighting solutions. From Atlantic City The Pool and Spa Show.

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Pal Even Heat heat pump. a full inverter heat pump has advantages over a typical heat pump sold in the U.S. These systems continuously heat or cool the water to maintain the desired water temperature. The heat pump will adjust it's output as needed to maintain a constant temperature. When a system uses slower speeds for lower outputs they operate much more efficiently.

These systems also operate at much lower temperatures than other heat pumps in the industry, allowing them to be much more usable from season to season. Most heat pumps will shut down at cooler temperatures around 46 degrees. The Pal Even Heat can operate as low 5 degrees.

These heat pumps will also operate as a chiller in the summer time.

PAL landscape lighting is the same unit that is used in the pools but it is suitable for dry locations also.

Interviews from Atlantic at The Pool and Spa Show with Chris Galvan of BLueRay XL, Jordan Thiessen of Cyclone Filter Tools, and Jim Gay of Haviland Pool Chemicals.

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Frank and Jacque discuss some of the freeze damage they found on north Texas pools and whet could have been done to prevent it.

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Frank and jacque discuss how not to treat someone who rushed to your home in freezing weather to help you out.

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Frank and Jacque discuss emergency winterizing services they are providing in the face of an Arctic blast and the value of reviews and vetting businesses.

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emergency winterize pool services, freezing weather, save your pool, pool winter, protect your pool, how to winterize, pool service, business reviews, the value of business reviews, pool builder con artist, rip offs,

00:00 - introduction

02:15 the Poolcorp Retail Summit. the treat on the planet CHOCOLATE COVERED BACON! Pentair, Hayward, and Fluidra all were represented.

04:55 - the "JUST DON" story, funny personalized license plate story.

07:50 - the approaching Arctic freeze and the pool owner fears. Offering winterizing services and winterizing instructions for pool owners.

18:16 - vetting pool builders and contractors. The stress caused by pool builders and remodel businesses that take the money and run leaving homeowners stranded. Research the name of the business owner, not just the name of the company. There are unethical people that change business names frequently to distance from their dirty deeds. They can change their business name, but they don't change their sir name. Ask people in the industry their opinions of contractors that you are considering.

23:50- the value of reviews. If you are doing business with a company you like and appreciate, leave them a good rating and review on line. It is very difficult for businesses to get happy customers to leave reviews. This is valuable for small businesses and is the best way you can thank them and promote them. If you are using a service or having work done, and you are very happy with the person you deal with, call them out by name in a good review. Many businesses bonus employees for receiving good reports and good reviews from clients.

26:25- the source of many bad reviews are bogus. We have received a few bad reviews over the years and almost all were clients that we terminated service due to non-payment or very difficult and frustrating to work with. There are unethical competitors that leave bad reviews for their competition. They believe they lift themselves by lowering others. Ex employees that were terminated for valid reasons have been known to troll ex-employers and leave false bad reviews. This is destroying the validity of the entire review system and process. The best way to overcome false bad reviews is with a lot of good reviews. It is very difficult, sometimes impossible to remove false reviews.

28:55- BBB, better business bureau. What our experience has been on what they are all about. They are not a government agency as many people believe. They are a for-profit business that will improve ratings for businesses based on paid memberships. Frank's experience dealing with BBB when a false complaint was filed against his business. The BBB does not evaluate or investigate complaints. They simply pass complaints and responses back and forth until someone gives up.

Take all reviews, good and bad, with a grain of salt.

39:30 The extinction of Frank's

Two great interviews. First is with Jessica Werner of Clear Comfort, the worlds best AOP system for spas, residential swimming pools, and commercial pools. Then Frank sits down with Jana Auringer to discuss the National Plasterers Council NPC and their impact on the swimming industry.

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AOP, advanced oxidation process, pool sanitation, spa sanitizer, hot tub sanitation, available on some new Bullfrog Spas and swimspas, and can be added to almost any existing spa or hot tub, reduce chlorine or bromine, hydroxyl radicals, single stage hydroxyl radical production, better than ozone and better than UV ultra violet, eliminate chloramines

NPC National Plasterers Council. pool plaster, pool plaster start ups, pebble technologies, acid start ups are bad, plaster mottling, plaster curing

Frank interviews Chris Galvan from Blueray XL mineral purification system and Dr. Joe Laurino founder of Periodic Products and creator of CU Lator, the only metal removal product for swimming pools.

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This bonus is the isolated interview with Joe Laurino Phd MBA founder of Periodic Products. He has developed the only product I can find that will actually remove metals from your pool water. Him and his team have also developed many products for metal stain removal and fill water metal removal.

copper pool stains, iron pool stain, cobalt pool stain, metal removal from pool water, remove copper from pool water, remove iron from pool water.

Frank sits down with Andrea Nannini from Talking Pools Podcast at the Gold Cost IPSSA show.

They discuss some of the struggles, issues, and critters they deal with in the great state of Florida.

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Frank and Jacque discuss a few things that can help you deal with winter and all of the leaves and issues it brings.

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00:00 introduction

07:22 Things that can help you deal with winter leaves

08:50 Skimmer wizard. blocks leaves from getting into your skimmer. If your pool is getting a lot of leaves it can completely overwhelm your skimmer causing you to lose flow. If flow stops or greatly slows down, which can result in freeze damage in freezing weather.

11:45 Pool Skim. this is a unit that screws into your pool return. it uses a venturi to draw leaves into a large bag. this used in conjunction with a Skimmer Wizard can really help you manage large amounts of leaves.

14:35 Pool Magazine pool news of the week.

16:00 Oreq Big Gobbler, other versions are Leaf Master, Leaf Eater, Leaf Terminator. These are leaf vacuums hooks up to a water hose and onto your pole. The hose flow creates a venturi that sucks leaves off the bottom and into a bag. If you have a pressure side cleaner that uses a booster pump, like a Polaris 280 or 380, there is a quick connection you can get that hooks up to the Big Gobbler can do a much better job with the higher pressure. not good for dirt. This does add a little water back to your pool to replace the high amount of evaporation we get early in the winter.

The Hammer Head and Riptide are similar to these style leaf vacs that use a trolling motor that does a great job picking up leaves and debris. These are around $2000.00 and are really just for pros. They are powered by marine battery and have a cart or carrying case. I do not recommend solely using these on routes because they do not pick up dirt well.

28:05 Oreq Stinger Spa Vac, a smaller version a big gobbler. great for spas or pools that get a smaller amount of leaves and debris

29:44 leaf nets. buy the better nets, they are well worth it. there are nets that have net material that is more for leaves. The Oreq option is the stinger grab bag. Plaster will tear up the finer mesh net material especially when dealing with large amounts of debris.

35:25 check your freeze guards. make sure when air temperatures are below freezing that your pumps turn on and do not turn off with the timers. set these 5 to 6 degrees above freezing.

38:13 if you have a pool service, and you are getting a lot of leaves, you need to empty skimmers and cleaners in between services if needed. if you cannot, you may need to hire your service to make multiple trips each week during heavy debris periods

40:45 get a leaf cover. if you have live oaks get your cover and be ready for when the live oaks drop their leaves in the spring

don't allow huge amounts of debris to sit on your covers. drag them off and bag them up

be careful with leaf covers that are not anchored. they can be very problematic and dangerous