Talking Pools Podcast

Send us Fan Mail In 2017 the CDC made changes to their ' Fecal Incident Response Guidelines '. Most significant was the NEW procedure for the remediation of a  diarrheal incident (high-risk event for contamination caused by Cryptosporidium). Despite being adopted by most health departments as the only permissible treatment option in their public pool code, this new regulation remains wid...

Send us Fan Mail Anything you add to your swimming pool will increase something and everything you add increases Total Dissolved Solids (TDS). In this one, Why you should care and how it should affect the chlorine type you chose to use. Jump right in. The water's fine. Join us, Poolside! Find us on Website: https://talkingpools.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/talkingpools/ Facebook:...

Send us Fan Mail No one knows swimming pools better than you. So, that idea you had to make it easier or that tool you Rube Goldberg-ed to get the job done faster is something that everyone with a pool to care for needs to hear about. It could also give you the opportunity to write your own ticket. Jump right in. The water's fine. Join us, Poolside! Find us on Website: https://talkingpools.co...

Send us Fan Mail 02:00  NPC  Fresh Plaster Start-up 16:55  Pool Nation Podcast Net Challenge 19:15  Talking Pools Column in Pool Magazine 19:35  Borate Fresh Plaster Start-up 25:45  Bicarbonate Fresh Plaster Start-up (The one with the 55-gallon drum) Jump right in. The water's fine. Join us, Poolside! Find us on Website: https://talkingpools.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/talkingpo...

Send us Fan Mail Special guest Laura Holley, Director of Prevention for Meridian Behavioral Healthcare and co-host of the popular The Brain Factor podcast , shares methods small business owners can use to ease anxiety in the face of supply-chain issues, workforce  & product shortages, and multiple price increases especially when under the added stress of a pandemic.   Laura has been working in...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for part two of our two-part podcast episode on swimming pool black algae where we find out the toxicity of black algae, how to get rid of it, and how to prevent a swimming pool from getting it in the first place. See an outline of Rudy's Black Algae research here: Swimming Pool Black Algae | Request PDF (researchgate.net) , Rudy's book ( How to Get Rid of Swimmi...

Send us Fan Mail Our host Rudy Stankowitz is said to know more about swimming pool black algae than any other person on the planet. See an outline of Rudy's Black Algae research here: Swimming Pool Black Algae | Request PDF (researchgate.net) After years of research (both in the field and lab), a published book ( How to Get Rid of Swimming Pool Algae ), an online Algae Specialist Certificatio...

Send us Fan Mail 03:00  Andrea's stain assessment process 08:12  Contamination of the imported pool chemicals 14:50  Vitamin C iron stain test 16:00  How ascorbic acid removes stains 19:43  Oxalic acid for iron oxide removal 22:21  Spot treat acid wash 23:40  Tannin stains 25:40  Citric acid 26:34  Copper-cyanurate 30:43  Copper stain removal Jump right in. The water's fine. Join us, Poo...

Send us Fan Mail 03:05  History of Aluminum Sulfate use in Water Treatment 11:24  As a phosphate remover 14:09  Alum vs Ascorbic acid for stain removal 24:27  Green 2 Clean 35:43  Killing Black Algae with Alum 36:22  Alum/CyA removal method (lowering the Cyanuric acid chemically) Jump right in. The water's fine. Join us, Poolside! Find us on Website: https://talkingpools.com/ Instagram: https...

Send us Fan Mail 00:00 Andrea's customer's pool loses 70,000 gal 08:39 Listener Questions 10:48 Lowering Calcium Hardness chemically 18:42 Handling bad reviews on Social Media 30:04 Twas the night before pool service price increases Jump right in. The water's fine. Join us, Poolside! Find us on Website: https://talkingpools.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/talkingpools/ Fac...

Send us Fan Mail 00:29  Pool job interview hit & run 04:56  Liquid chlorine and acid on the rise 12:25  Pool water test kit interferences The swimming pool test kit is the most valuable tool in a pool tech or pool owner's arsenal, but for as much as we depend upon drops, colors, strips, or disks to give us unchallenged accuracy. Would it surprise you to learn that some seemingly minor pro...

Send us Fan Mail 04:25  Talking Pools Podcast has a trade magazine column 05:04  Getting out of your own way on pricing service 12:30  Snowflaking & magnesium hydroxide in saltwater pools 21:16  Pool Enzyme ingredients Harvested from bacteria, enzymes catalyze oxidation reactions, with heavy metals in the formula... Jump right in. The water's fine. Join us, Poolside! Find us on Website: h...

Send us Fan Mail 00:18  Industry Educator Grant Smith tribute/Leadership lessons 07:08  Residential pool main drain regulations 15:46  Florida man gets penis stuck in pool fitting 16:58  How pool enzymes work Before we jump into this, I need you to have a clear mind. I need you for just a minute to forget everything everyone has ever told you about enzymes and how they work. That doesn’t mean I’m...

Send us Fan Mail 00:00 Industry Icon, Bob Lowry, passes away 02:10 Delinquent Customers In this one, Rudy and Andrea take listeners through some business practices designed to protect the service provider from customers who fail to pay and some steps the business owner can take to recoup funds.  Jump right in. The water's fine. Join us, Poolside! Please find us on Website: https://talkingpool...

Send us Fan Mail 01:50 Pool Corp acquires large retail chain 03:00 Pleatco Perfect Pool Guy/Gal Winners 08:55 Cyanuric Acid Shortage There's a cyanuric acid shortage brewing and this year's winners of the Pleatco nationwide search for the Perfect Pool Guy ( Michael Baker , Preserve Pools LLC Tucson, Arizona) and Perfect Pool Gal ( Kristen Melo of Preserve Pools, Summerville, SC) are here...

Send us Fan Mail Breaking News about Taylor Test Kits, Some monster in Fresno kills a dog at the pool, and a listener email asks for a more in-depth look at why everyone should be using borates in swimming pools, especially with the scarcity in swimming chlorinating pool products expected to last throughout most of 2022. Jump right in. The water's fine. Join us, Poolside! Please find us on We...

Send us Fan Mail A huge announcement from AQUA Magazine brings editor and chief Scott Webb to our show this week. Andrea takes us through her methods of cleaning scale from tile. Rudy talks about why now is the best time to fire some customers. All this and more on this week's Talking Pools Podcast episode! Jump right in. The water's fine. Join us, Poolside! Find us on Website: https://t...

Send us Fan Mail This is the one where Rudy & Andrea talk about advanced oxidation process. AOP involves the generation of hydroxyl radicals in sufficient quantity to sanitize water. As a result of the process, we get the hydroxyl radical (•OH) which is the neutral form of OH⁻. We say ‘Advanced’ because the oxidation reactions are significantly faster than they would naturally occur otherwise....

Send us Fan Mail We decided to do a Town Hall in this one we call Talking Pools Unfiltered. We opened our podcast up to a larger than the normal group to discuss a huge issue affecting pool builders & service companies Coast-2-Coast.  Everyone knows we need to raise prices due to the perpetual increases in product cost we are facing, but what the h**k do you raise them to when you don't k...

Send us Fan Mail Do pool service rates accurately reflect the value of the service? Or, have lowballers devalued the product in your area? This, and Rudy and Andrea take a look at swimming pool rules from the late 1800s to the mid-1920s. The problems we see now are not that different throughout the past century and a quarter. Are there things that will surprise you? You better believe it! Download...

Send us Fan Mail Watershape University and the Council for the Model Aquatic Health Code ( CMAHC ) are excited to announce their partnership with the Association of Aquatic Professionals ( AOAP ) during the Annual AOAP Conference & Exposition, scheduled for Feb. 5-12, 2022, in St. Pete Beach, Fla.  Now in its 11th year, the Conference has earned a reputation as the premier educational gatherin...

Send us Fan Mail It is impossible to add a chemical to pool water and only change the thing you added the chemical to change. WTF?! I know! No matter how pure, no matter where you purchased it from, you are going to change something else as well. Sometimes the unintended change is insignificant, other times you need to be prepared to add an entirely different chemical to counter the incidental con...

Send us Fan Mail Steve Barnes joins Rudy & Andrea via satellite radio transmission from an undisclosed location to discuss the laws regarding swimming pool suction outlets (Main drains, dedicated vacuum lines, etc) that were put in place to prevent disembowelment and entrapment of children (and adults). The original law went into effect on December 19, 2008, However vital updates and changes w...

Send us Fan Mail The latest craze coming from across the pond is Natural swimming pools. The timing ties in perfectly as an alternative to the traditional chemically treated backyard oasis in a time where chlorine supply is scarce.  They take up twice that area, come at a much higher price tag, and rely upon vegetation to sanitize the water.  but, are they safe?  I would like to preface this by sa...

Send us Fan Mail In this one, Rudy and Andrea have a couple of cloudy water examples that will blow your socks off and leave you speechless. The terrible twosome of all pool podcasts is great and small talk of a health official major fail and a case where the swimming pool service company drops the ball. This is no Cinderella tale; not all chronicles have happy endings. What your first steps shoul...