8 playbooks
Pool Anatomy & Systems
How skimmers, returns, drains, pumps, filters, valves, feeders, features, and shared pool/spa plumbing work together.
Chemical Feeders and Dosing Hardware
Run erosion feeders, liquid pumps, acid tanks, and injection hardware as calibrated chemical systems with real compatibility and leak risks.
Filter Service Deep Dive
Take cartridge, sand, and DE filter service beyond the baseline guide by working through safe teardown, failure signatures, and reassembly checks.
Filtration and Circulation
A canonical guide to sand, cartridge, and DE filters; clean baseline pressure; backwashing; and cloudy-water filtration fixes.
Pool Anatomy and How Systems Work
Trace the water path, normal valve positions, and owner-safe boundaries before you guess at a circulation, heating, or feature problem.
Pumps and Hydraulics
Understand flow, head loss, speed control, priming, and filter matching before you trust generic runtime folklore.
Shared Pool/Spa Systems
Understand spillover logic, valve modes, hotter-water chemistry, and shared-equipment troubleshooting for combined pool/spa systems.
Spa Spillover Advanced
Use spillover intentionally instead of treating it as a default setting, because attached spas change pH rise, heat loss, aeration, and sanitizer demand.
Water Features and Aeration
Spillovers, laminars, fountains, bubblers, and deck jets affect pH drift, evaporation, scale pressure, and scheduling.
Educational guidance only. Verify labels, manuals, local code, and site conditions before acting. Stop for electrical, gas, structural, drain, drowning, injury, emergency, or chemical-mixing risk.