17 Jul, 2011 By Steve Donohoe Tech Talk Know Your Test Kit (AND It’s Limitations)! The main “tool of the trade” that we use as pool operators is our test kit and testing instruments. In Read more
10 Jul, 2011 By Steve Donohoe Tech Talk Total Dynamic Head and the Pump Curve It’s already July, 2011 — and this year is more than half over. Time is just FLYING by as we Read more
26 Jun, 2011 By Steve Donohoe Safety Tips Incompatible Pool Chemicals We had a full house in our CPO Certification class at SCP/PoolCorp in Riverside this past Thursday and Friday, June Read more
20 Feb, 2011 By Steve Donohoe Tech Talk How Much D.E. Do You Put In That Filter? In our CPO class, when we talk about D.E. filters, we stress that it’s the Diatomaceous Earth (D.E.), NOT the Read more
05 Feb, 2011 By Steve Donohoe Tech Talk Flow Rate and Water Turnover We were back in San Diego again presenting our CPO class this past Thursday and Friday, February 3-4. Sitting Read more
05 Dec, 2010 By Steve Donohoe CPO Classes Our Last CPO Class in 2010 We had our FIRST class in 2010 at a new location in Anaheim: the Superior Pool Products Headquarters (read about it Read more
08 Nov, 2010 By Steve Donohoe Tech Talk High Chlorine will Bleach Out DPD Test We left Las Vegas on Wednesday and drove down to Riverside into 100 degree temperatures (yikes! a record temp for Read more
25 Oct, 2010 By Steve Donohoe Tech Talk UV and Swimming Pools Let the counting and tallying begin! Our host, SCP San Diego, was closed for inventory this past Thursday and Friday, Read more
11 Oct, 2010 By Steve Donohoe Healthy Water Chloramines – Not a good thing Chloramines – what are they? We returned to PoolCorp’s Anaheim facility, October 7-8, 2010 to teach a very large class Read more
27 Sep, 2010 By Steve Donohoe Tech Talk Disinfection – Oxidation – Circulation When Elise and I present our 2-Day CPO classes away from our home base in Anaheim (as we did this past Thursday Read more