Rule Your Pool
Rule Your Pool is a podcast by Orenda Technologies. This show was created for pool owners, operators, and service pros who want the best water quality possible. If you want to know what's really going on with your swimming pool chemistry, this might be the podcast for you. Each week, we'll cover a new topic related to swimming pools, water chemistry, or indoor air quality. With our help, you'll be able to rule your pool without over-treating it with chemicals and wasting money.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 170
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Carbonate Clouding and Dust | Calcium Issues, pt. 2
00:00 - Intro
00:36 - Welcome to the team, Ryan Rickaby!
01:20 - Review of calcium hardness (amount of calcium carbonate) vs. LSI (saturation of calcium carbonate)
04:30 - Soda ash clouds the water inst…
What is Scale? | Calcium Issues, pt. 1
00:00 - Intro
01:57 - Definition of scale: Scale is the hardened deposit of a calcium compound that has precipitated out of solution.
02:30 - Analogy of sugar in a drink. This analogy explains the dif…
Draining and Diluting a Pool
00:00 - Intro
01:42 - Dilution is not always the solution. But it can be the most practical answer to get certain chemistry levels reduced.
06:54 - Evaporation will not lead to dilution, because the di…
Ways to suppress pH from naturally rising
00:00 - Intro
02:01 - Recap of Henry's Law of differential pressures. Any gas dissolved in a liquid will equalize with that same gas above the liquid.
04:36 - If you exceed the pH ceiling, the atmosphe…
Water Chemistry Testing: 201
00:00 - Intro
01:11 - Things can go wrong in water testing, so let's review the common mistakes and interferences.
05:07 - Reagent expiration dates mean nothing if the kit is not stored properly. All t…
Water Chemistry Testing: 101
00:00 - Intro - Joe's back!
01:44 - Water chemistry testing is important because without it, managing swimming pools well becomes impossible.
05:55 - Water testing is not difficult, but it takes practi…
Introducing the Orenda Help Desk in Pool Service Software (PSS)
00:00 - Intro
00:49 - Today's episode is about addressing problem pools in the most efficient way
02:02 - Introducing Gus Velez, founder of Pool Service Software
04:36 - PSS users are pool service profe…
PPM and PPB
00:00 - Intro
01:59 - PPM = parts per million. It's the density of a given substance dissolved in water. It's the ratio of that substance compared to water. 1 PPM means the dissolved substance is one-…
Concrete Pool Shell Problems | Weepers, Efflorescence, and Calcium Nodules
00:00 - Intro
02:54 - Water chemistry did not cause these problems. These are structural issues.
03:54 - Three main problems: weepers, efflorescence, and calcium nodules.
04:09 - Weepers are active leak…
Pool Covers and Winterization
00:00 - Intro
02:35 - Jarred is wearing a Slytherin shirt. He's more of a Ravenclaw, TBH.
04:12 - Type of pool cover impacts your winterization chemistry (dilution, pH rise)
06:51 - Other types of pool …
Closing your pool the Orenda way
00:00 - Intro, reconnect with nature
04:48 - Water would naturally seek balance if you just shut your pool off. But that is not advised, because water would correct itself at the expense of your pool.
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Wildfires and Swimming Pools
00:00 - Intro
01:10 - Wildfires burn through forests and convert plant life into basic elements...primarily carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus.
02:15 - The closer you are to the fire, the more contaminati…
Pool Party Chemistry
00:00 - Intro
01:44 - Biggest difference between normal pool days and a pool party: bather load.
05:28 - Visit our Second Pillar of proactive pool care, about non-living organics.
08:21 - Holy trinity o…
Evaporation and Accumulation
00:00 - Intro
02:21 - Evaporation is the process of liquid water converting into water vapor (gas). And this process takes energy (heat) to occur.
03:40 - Humidity in the air and the difference between…
Containing pH vs. Controlling pH
00:00 - Intro
01:30 - Controlling pH is not possible. pH moves with anything that happens to the water. It's a reactionary chemistry.
04:07 - Many ways for you to balance the LSI. Use the Orenda App an…
Calcium Flakes in Saltwater Pools
00:00 - Intro
03:15 - Calcium flakes and other deposits in salt pools are very common. You're not alone if your pool has them.
05:00 - Our first question when someone calls about calcium flakes: "what …
Combined Chlorine 201: How to reduce combined chlorine
00:00 - Intro
02:15 - How do we get rid of combined chlorine? Do we just let chlorine do its thing?
02:49 - Two categories of how to reduce combined chlorine: chemically and physically.
03:30 - Two chem…
Combined Chlorine 101: What are chloramines?
00:00 - Intro
00:59 - This will be complex chemistry, but very simplified.
02:07 - What is combined chlorine? What does chlorine "combine with"?
05:32 - Combined chlorine is an indicator of your chlorin…
Muriatic acid alternatives: Sulfuric Acid, Sodium Bisulfate and CO2
00:00 - Intro
01:33 - We're in an muriatic acid shortage. Thanks, COVID.
02:21 - Two specialty acids: modified Muriatic Acids for less fuming: AcidBlue and AcidMagic.
03:06 - Muriatic acid is a diluted…
Ways to optimize chlorine efficiency
00:00 - Intro
02:57 - How to we make use of the limited chlorine we have?
03:33 - The chlorine shortage explained (by Joe, so it's better)
06:58 - Chlorinate at a time that direct sunlight does not hit …