The Complete Pool Manual for Homeowners and Professionals: A Step-by-Step Maintenance Guide

by Dan Hardy

If you are a pool owner, you have made a major investment and proper swimming pool maintenance is an absolute must! Keeping your pool clean and maintained should be a top priority since a clean pool is essential in many ways. First, no one wants to swim in, or look at, a dirty, green, or yellow pool. Keep in mind that although the pool may look clean, it may in fact be still contaminated with enough bacteria to cause sickness. If a pool is not maintained properly it can get very expensive to clean or fix at a later date. Dan Hardy has used every available resource in his 20-year career as a pool professional to add to his store of knowledge about making and keeping water safe. An untiring and dedicated "Pool Doctor," he has become the "go to" man for owners of some of the world's largest, most ornate, and expensive private swimming pools including that of award-winning actor Mr. John Travolta and his wife, Kelly Preston. Dan started working on pools as a boy in his dad's firm. Not content with doing routine maintenance, he began learning all he could about chemicals, mechanics, and safety. In this book he may just be a lifesaver to pool owners who want to save money on maintenance but need to know how to handle poisons safely. Pool maintenance business owners will want to have this book on hand as an easy guide to repairing filtration and pumps and dealing with serious pool problems. And anyone who wishes to have such a career could have no better mentor than Dan Hardy.

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 12, 2007

Reviews

[Brian Engleman · Rating 3 out of 5]

There’s a lot of information here, but definitely not step by step. I expect it will be useful in my library but I need other books to help me understand the preliminaries before I can benefit from what it has to offer

[John Stoneham · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good reading, but it is by no means step by step for anything. It's 250 pages of what your grandfather would tell you if he'd been a pool man for 30 years. I learned a lot about sort of how pools are and what sort of things go on and the sorts of things to look out for, in a folk wisdom sense, and I feel like I benefited from that learning of what pool maintenance is about, but for science or step by step procedures, look elsewhere.