Pool Maintenance, Open to Close
You know your alkalinity is low. Nobody has told you how much to add.
Every pool book on the shelf gives you the target ranges. This one gives you the amount — a dose table at the end of every chemistry section, worked out for your pool size.
- Dose tables by pool size, from 5,000 to 30,000 gallons — never a target without a number
- Organised by your pool’s year: opening, the weekly routine, problems, closing and winter
- Troubleshooting you enter by what you can see: green, cloudy, stained or smelly water
- Chlorine and saltwater side by side, with the salt variant wherever it differs
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Never a target without an amount
Built to be looked up, not read once — short entries, a symptom index, and cross-links throughout.
The arithmetic, done
Your reading down the side, your pool size along the top, the amount where they meet. Plus a five-minute way to work out your pool’s volume, for every shape.
A closing chapter that earns its place
How you shut the pool down in October decides whether April is a weekend or a fortnight. Closing day step by step, blow-out and all.
Fixes by what you can see
Find the water in the front table, do the one thing that cannot make it worse, then read the entry — including why chlorine that reads fine can stop working.
The whole season, in order
- Pool volume — every shape, and the average-depth mistake most people make
- The six readings — what each does, and the order to correct them in
- Opening day — including when the cover comes off a swamp
- The ten-minute week — and four routines your pool does not need
- Chemical safety — what must never be mixed, and what to hand to a professional
For pool owners who were never taught how
Written for the owner with a test kit and a strip reading who has been told the target range but never the amount to add.
The dose figures are drawn from published public-health guidance, and the sources are named in the book. The label on your container is always the final word; this book is the arithmetic that gets you there.
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