Summary: Do you know everything about your pool? Chances are you don’t. In this podcast episode we discuss how what you don’t know about your pool can actually hurt you.<br> Podcast Transcript:<br> Welcome to the Pool Doctor of the Palm Beaches online podcast. With your hosts, Holly Colasurdo and Elizabeth Varian.<br> Elizabeth Varian: Hey everybody, Elizabeth Varian here with Pool Doctor of the Palm Beaches for our monthly podcast. I have Holly on the line here. Say hey Holly.<br> Holly Colasurdo: Hey guys.<br> Elizabeth Varian: Yeah, we’re all in the middle of-<br> Holly Colasurdo: Happy December.<br> Elizabeth Varian: … holiday season, yes. Kicking everything off.<br> Holly Colasurdo: Happy holidays.<br> Elizabeth Varian: Yes. Hopefully it’s a beautiful one, the weather has been going back and forth so we’re hoping it’s swimming pool holiday season, right?<br> Holly Colasurdo: I hope so. I know Saturday we’re supposed to get a cold front, so for all of us northerners who live in Southern Florida, we’re ready with our sweaters and our boots.<br> Elizabeth Varian: Yes, don’t mention that, we’re all be double bundled. Let’s get started. We have an interesting topic for today. We want to cover what you don’t know about your pool can hurt you. Together, Holly and I have compiled real questions that people have come to us, much later than they probably should have, and they didn’t think that the beginning events were actually a red flag to something bigger that was going on under the scenes or with their pool equipment. So, should be an interesting topic, because this has become common. The first question that we have is, “Why is my water so low? Can’t I just fill it up? Just pull that hose out and just add some more water?”<br> Holly Colasurdo: Right, well most of the time after work as I’m driving, I’m trying to think, what do our clients think about, or people that aren’t our clients think about when they have a pool? So many of us do have a pool, so I try to get creative and I do most of my serious thinking, as I said, when I’m driving. I thought about that. I’m like, “What are they not aware of that could possibly hurt them?” Now, whether you have a service company or whether you do your pool on your own … Okay, so the first thing, the question we always get is, “Why is my water level so low?” Well, if it’s in the summer, of course it could be because of the heat. It can drain a lot of water from the pool. If it’s excess, then possibly be a leak.<br> That can hurt you, because if you don’t have enough water in your pool, and normally it’s the waterline tile, where the tile meets the pool, should at least be there. Then your pump can’t filter correctly. Then your motor is being extra stressed and taxed above and beyond, which can break down your equipment faster than the normal rate. So if you do notice that water is low, you can call Pool Doctor, your service company, have then come do a leak detection, which is important, because it could be something serious or again it could just be the heat.<br> Then that gets into our next thing. If you want to add water on your own, you have to be careful with that too. That question was if you add water, you have to be really careful, because then it can throw off the balance of the chemicals. If you’re doing it on your own, you better be balancing your chemicals once a week, and if not your service company is doing that, because that shows them what they need to add or what type of chemical they need to add, if they have to add anything. Weather becomes a factor, if we’ve had a lot of rain, lot of wind, lot of debris, that can throw off chemicals in your pool as well. It’s important to always keep your pool balance,
