Latest Pool chemistry Podcast Episodes
Calcium and LSI in Fiberglass and Vinyl Pools (w/ Tyler Mills)
Rule Your Pool - August 09, 2023 15:35 - 14 minutes00:00 - Introduction 01:29 - pH rise should NOT be caused by cement finishes 05:08 - Is calcium needed in vinyl and fiberglass pools? 07:17 - Fiberglass gel coat degradation and chalking 09:25 - Vinyl liner fading 11:04 - LSI and calcium levels always matter, regardless of pool type ---...
Green and Yellow (Mustard) Algae (w/ Terry Arko)
Rule Your Pool - July 26, 2023 13:00 - 31 minutes00:00 - Introduction 01:53 - 30,000+ species of algae exist 07:45 - Planktonic and Filimentous algae types 09:48 - Organic slime protects algae 10:43 - Brushing helps prevent algae 13:44 - Why we advise against using algaecide products 14:48 - Why algae can have different colors 16:11 - H...
Black Algae
Rule Your Pool - July 19, 2023 13:00 - 27 minutes00:00 - Introduction 02-54 - Black Algae is actually cyanobacteria 06:02 - To have black algae, it has to be transmitted from elsewhere 08:24 - Black algae is protected by a non-living organic shield 12:48 - Softening the shield 15:43 - Black algae removal procedure 17:18 - Cleaning up aft...
Chelating vs. Sequestering, and Chlorinating after SC-1000
Rule Your Pool - July 04, 2023 13:00 - 15 minutes00:00 - Introduction 01:12 - Why SC-1000 reduces free chlorine 02:58 - How to use SC-1000 without zeroing out free chlorine 04:25 - How to chlorinate after SC-1000 05:29 - Sequestering vs. chelating 07:09 - The distinction between metals and minerals 08:06 - Phosphate-based sequestering ag...
Understanding Calcium: the bedrock of water balance
Rule Your Pool - June 28, 2023 13:00 - 29 minutes00:00 - Introduction 01:09 - Previous podcast episodes about calcium 03:08 - Calcium is the bedrock of water balance 05:02 - Quick LSI review 09:50 - Water will balance itself if it has to 11:12 - High alkalinity is more likely to cause scale than high calcium hardness 14:35 - Picking the ...
Understanding Bromine (w/ Terry Arko)
Rule Your Pool - June 21, 2023 13:00 - 31 minutes00:00 - Introduction 00:46 - Eric's nostalgia for the bromine smell, and collegiate swimming 04:02 - Halogens create salts 05:29 - Recharging bromide ions into HOBr 06:51 - Chlorine vs. Bromine 09:15 - Bromamines 10:55 - Back to the bromine cycle, it's a two-edged sword 11:44 - Enough sod...
Chemical Forecasting (w/ Tyler Mills)
Rule Your Pool - June 14, 2023 13:00 - 24 minutes00:00 - Introduction 01:38 - Does your local distributor stock ALL the products you need? 05:56 - Freight minimums and group purchasing 12:28 - How to forecast chemical usage 14:51 - Distributors can forecast better than any of us 17:09 - Seasonal demands 23:00 - Summary. Thanks for listen...
Minimalism: Addition by Subtraction
Rule Your Pool - June 09, 2023 17:37 - 19 minutes00:00 - Introduction 02:00 - What is traditional pool care? 04:36 - Pool chemical conflicts 09:08 - Contrast that with Eric's pool on the Orenda program 14:34 - Simplify, and subtract things from the water 17:26 - Success is a choice ------------------------------------ Connect with Or...
The Return of the King (w/ Harold Evans)
Rule Your Pool - June 02, 2023 22:38 - 32 minutes00:00 - Introduction 00:59 - Harold's global voyage 04:34 - Why Harold decided it was time to sell Orenda 07:03 - New advisory role 08:16 - Why HASA? 10:30 - Why chlorine and acid prices were increased 12:50 - Quality Control 14:13 - Control the controllables 16:53 - Why the 4x1 returnab...
Clean water with a slice of Humble Pie
Rule Your Pool - May 25, 2023 13:00 - 25 minutes00:00 - Introduction 01:39 - Fixer upper 03:23 - Why not just drain the pool and clean it out? 07:44 - Mistakes were made 09:46 - White bucket test...with a stupid, dangerous, distracted mistake 12:42 - Green pool cleanup process 16:06 - Churn it up, then shut it off and wait 16:23 - Qual...
Top Ten things Kathryn has learned from Orenda
Rule Your Pool - May 17, 2023 13:00 - 33 minutes00:00 - Introduction 00:19 - Kathryn's background 03:48 - 10. Trade shows can be laid back 06:46 - 9. Paper still matters, but sharing digital marketing is effortless 10:22 - 8. Get training 11:52 - 7. Don't be a splash and dash pool pro 13:57 - 6. Measure your pool 15:37 - 5. Stop abusin...
Breaking Bad Water
Rule Your Pool - May 10, 2023 13:00 - 18 minutes00:00 - Introduction 02:05 - Bad water 03:20 - Can chlorine handle everything in a pool? 04:21 - Resetting water quality 06:28 - Green pool cleanups with algaecides 08:49 - Algaecides and their byproducts conflict with chlorine 12:25 - The Orenda green pool cleanup procedure 14:19 - Resto...
Orenda App 4.0 - Updates, integrations, and the future
Rule Your Pool - May 04, 2023 13:00 - 21 minutes00:00 - Introduction 02:48 - The evolution of our mobile app 04:36 - Cleaning up the code 06:17 - Cross-platform 07:40 - Bugs you have helped us find (and fix) so far 10:15 - Privacy, anonymous survey, and one infuriated app user 15:05 - Integrations with other software 19:34 - The Orenda...
Team Orenda and our integration with HASA (w/Terry Arko)
Rule Your Pool - April 26, 2023 13:00 - 31 minutes00:00 - Introduction 02:01 - Introducing Team Orenda 10:08 - Introducing Terry Arko, from HASA 13:35 - Terry's role at HASA 16:01 - Bob Lowry's Pool Chemistry Training Institute 17:08 - HASA and Orenda's education conflicts in some ways 22:58 - More in common than in conflict 26:56 - Wrap...
New company ownership, same tolerable podcast
Rule Your Pool - March 29, 2023 18:14 - 41 minutes00:00 - Introduction 00:50 - Orenda has been acquired by HASA 01:46 - Who we were, who we are, and who we hope to become 02:37 - How Orenda Started 07:04 - Some dude named Eric "decided" to join the company 13:20 - We still think and act like a family business 15:20 - Harold Evans, the "br...
Understanding Calcium Sulfate Scale Crystals
Rule Your Pool - March 22, 2023 13:00 - 21 minutes00:00 - Introduction 01:29 - How we first discovered crystals in pools 02:51 - What the definition of "scale"? 04:51 - onBalance already knew about calcium sulfate crystals 07:45 - What is calcium sulfate? 09:53 - Calcium sulfate precipitates at a lower pH 12:35 - Where do sulfates come fr...
How to Manage Pollen in Pools
Rule Your Pool - March 15, 2023 13:00 - 20 minutes00:00 - Introduction 01:47 - What is pollen? 03:44 - How does pollen spread? 06:21 - Pollen, tannins, and organic staining 07:25 - Spring pollen vs. Fall pollen 08:33 - How does pollen get in swimming pools? 09:10 - How to manage pollen in pools 11:20 - CV-600 and CE-Clarifier are great f...
How to Contact Us at Orenda (the Right Way)
Rule Your Pool - March 08, 2023 14:00 - 19 minutes00:00 - Introduction 01:33 - There are a finite number of hours in the workweek 03:10 - Phone help line and emails 07:18 - Voicemail 09:25 - Use our help center, ask.orendatech.com 10:36 - We are not legal expert witnesses, so please don't ask us to be 12:32 - Inbound contact requests 13:...
What Water Wants
Rule Your Pool - February 08, 2023 14:00 - 25 minutes00:00 - Introduction 02:11 - We are still relatively unknown, and so is our message 03:53 - We cannot teach water chemistry properly without first understanding water itself 05:08 - The equilibria of both water and air 07:37 - Traditional range chemistry 08:18 - Startup example - stop chasi...
Live from the NESPA Show in Atlantic City
Rule Your Pool - January 27, 2023 17:00 - 11 minutes00:00 - Introduction, and introducing Shaun Mulhall, our Southeast regional manager 00:52 - Introducing Kathryn Varden, our Western regional manager 02:01 - Our top 5 topics on this podcast all have a common theme 05:49 - We got to teach two classes at the NESPA show, and 2 more in Spanish 0...
Stop Helicopter Parenting your Pool
Rule Your Pool - January 04, 2023 14:00 - 14 minutes00:00 - Introduction 02:43 - What does "helicopter parenting" mean in regard to a swimming pool? 05:23 - Patience is a virtue in pool care 06:46 - Let physics do their thing 08:14 - Physical thresholds like pH ceiling take time 10:01 - One pool to focus on vs. many 11:27 - Make an informed...
How to use the Orenda App
Rule Your Pool - December 24, 2022 14:00 - 37 minutes00:00 - Introduction 01:22 - Exploring the main menu and features of the Orenda App 03:14 - Blogs, procedures and videos are all shareable on the app 03:50 - App settings allows you to select language, units of measurement, and toggle borate on/off 05:48 - How to use the Orenda Calculator 0...
7/7 - What raises and lowers Phosphates?
Rule Your Pool - December 21, 2022 14:00 - 14 minutes00:00 - Introduction 00:59 - What are phosphates? 02:59 - Where do phosphates come from? 03:09 - Chemically raising phosphates 05:42 - Phosphates in drinking water 08:22 - Environmental factors that introduce phosphates 09:14 - What lowers phosphates in pools? 09:18 - Reverse Osmosis (RO)...
6/7 - What raises and lowers Combined Chlorine?
Rule Your Pool - December 14, 2022 14:00 - 16 minutes00:00 - Introduction 00:35 - What is combined chlorine? 03:20 - What raises combined chlorine? 04:15 - Nitrogen sources in commercial pools 07:29 - Nitrogen sources in residential pools 08:34 - What lowers combined chlorine? 08:59 - Chemical ways to reduce combined chlorine 12:46 - Mechan...
5/7 - What raises and lowers Total Dissolved Solids (TDS)?
Rule Your Pool - December 07, 2022 14:00 - 9 minutes00:00 - Introduction to our new seven-part series 00:30 - What is TDS? 02:39 - Myths about TDS 04:32 - What raises TDS? 06:29 - What lowers TDS? 07:05 - Reverse Osmosis filtration 07:34 - Summary ------------------------------------ Connect with Orenda Technologies Website: https://w...
4/7 - What raises and lowers Cyanuric Acid (CYA)?
Rule Your Pool - November 30, 2022 14:00 - 12 minutes00:00 - Introduction 00:54 - What is Cyanuric Acid (CYA)? 03:33 - CYA controls the speed of chlorine 05:04 - Minimal CYA is our Fourth Pillar of proactive pool care 06:25 - What raises CYA? 08:18 - What lowers CYA? 11:05 - Summary. Thanks for listening! --------------------------------...
3/7 - What raises and lowers Calcium Hardness?
Rule Your Pool - November 23, 2022 14:00 - 11 minutes00:00 - Introduction 00:47 - Happy Thanksgiving! 02:54 - What is calcium hardness? 03:50 - What raises calcium hardness? 06:49 - What lowers calcium hardness? 09:37 - Summary. Thanks for listening! ------------------------------------ Connect with Orenda Technologies Website: https://...
2/7 - What raises and lowers Total Alkalinity?
Rule Your Pool - November 16, 2022 14:00 - 13 minutes00:00 - Introduction 00:35 - What is alkalinity? 02:45 - The purpose of alkalinity 03:42 - pH determines the types of alkalinity in your water 04:48 - What raises total alkalinity? 06:47 - Why alkalinity rises in pools with CO2 injectors 09:07 - What lowers total alkalinity? 11:58 - Summa...
1/7 - What raises and lowers pH?
Rule Your Pool - November 09, 2022 14:00 - 16 minutes00:00 - Introduction 00:38 - Overview/recap of what pH is and what it means 02:30 - pH dogma in the swimming pool industry, debunked 05:24 - pH is about dissolved Carbon Dioxide (CO2) 06:37 - pH ceiling (when CO2 is equalized between water and air) 07:16 - What raises pH? 11:14 - What lowe...
Intro - What Raises and Lowers specific chemistry factors? (7-part series)
Rule Your Pool - November 02, 2022 13:00 - 3 minutes00:00 - Introduction to our new seven-part series 01:37 - We need to get back to the basics, thanks to the questions we are getting from you 02:38 - You are the reason we keep producing this podcast. Thank you for listening! ------------------------------------ Connect with Orenda Technol...
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