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Rule Your Pool

Rule Your Pool is a podcast by Orenda Technologies. This show was created for pool owners, operators, and service pros who want the best water quality possible. If you want to know what"s really going on with your swimming pool chemistry, this might be the podcast for you. Each week, we"ll cover a new topic related to swimming pools, water chemistry, or indoor air quality. With our help, you"ll be able to rule your pool without over-treating it with chemicals and wasting money.

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00:48:57

How to Implement the Orenda Program

Rule Your Pool ·

2022/03/30

00:00 - Intro03:12 - What is the Orenda Program? It's a philosophy, not a list of products.04:45 - The history of Orenda10:42 - It's never profitable to be reactive. Being proactive is much better.12:42 - No chemical conflicts21:05 - No long-term byproducts left behind26:19 - What is an Orenda pool? What does that mean?27:54 - Ten Steps to implement the Orenda Program35:52 - Recap of steps 1-3: dilute as needed, establish higher calcium hardness and reduced total alkalinity levels.36:19 - Steps 4-6:

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00:12:42

What Causes Calcium Hardness to Change?

Rule Your Pool ·

2022/03/23

00:00 - Intro01:29 - The amount of calcium carbonate is calcium hardness. How saturated that calcium carbonate is is measured using the LSI.02:45 - If calcium rises, it's coming from somewhere. If calcium falls, it's going somewhere.03:21 - What increases calcium hardness?05:03 - What reduces calcium hardness?07:02 - Evaporation and accumulation08:53 - If the calcium seems to move much more than it should, it's probably a faulty test10:16 - Two-breath recap. Thanks for

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00:26:41

How Salt Chlorine Generators Actually Work

Rule Your Pool ·

2022/03/16

00:00 - Intro01:07 - Giving credit where credit is due02:25 - Saltwater pools ARE chlorine pools04:13 - Salt (NaCl) dissolves in water and the sodium (Na) separates from chloride (Cl-). That chloride is what the salt system converts into chlorine04:43 - What a salt cell is and how it works08:45 - Electrolysis converts 2Cl into Cl2, and Eric attempts to read through the three chemistry formulas in order...13:51 - Because Hydrogen gas (H2) does not dissolve, it bubbles off and creates aeration, which

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00:19:37

Preparing for Spring Openings in 2022

Rule Your Pool ·

2022/03/02

00:00 - Intro00:59 - What is 2022 going to look like? What can we expect with the supply chain shortages?05:10 - What can you do NOW to make openings smoother in a few weeks? 08:57 - Most pools with mesh covers (or no covers) will have lower calcium and higher pH than they winterized with.12:55 - A hard reset in the spring is a very good practice. What can you decide to remove from your water?16:22 - We can start removing phosphates and non-living organics now. Addressing metals will have to wait

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00:52:13

The Power of Standardizing Pool Chemistry and Practices

Rule Your Pool ·

2022/02/23

00:00 - Intro....by Jarred?02:35 - What is a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)?07:34 - The root of the word "decide".17:18 - When people do their own thing in a service business, they are incentivized to cover up their mistakes.21:07 - Collective intelligence24:00 - Step 1: Gain control of CYA levels.27:20 - Step 2: Create an LSI floor (foundation) with calcium hardness, and a ceiling with total alkalinity.34:23 - Step 3: Write down your clearly-defined SOP for chemistry and behaviors. Written down

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00:26:12

Ways to Reduce Employee Turnover

Rule Your Pool ·

2022/02/09

00:00 - Intro01:43 - Swimming is an individual sport AND a team sport. Individual athletes racing the clock are part of a bigger team. This translates to pool companies as well.04:02 - Let's focus on people. Not the job, not the skills, the people. People are always the most important aspect of a business.04:32 - The benefits of a baseline, such as water chemistry minimums. Standards lead to collective intelligence, the team becomes more cohesive.10:09 - Build a family and team atmosphere. Gather

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00:22:16

Organic Staining and Tannins

Rule Your Pool ·

2022/01/19

00:00 - Intro01:44 - Drinks made from plants have natural color from Tannins. Wine, coffee, tea, etc.06:10 - Nothing replaces the importance of physically cleaning organics out of the pool. Leaves, acorns and other droppings will overwhelm chlorine if you do not regularly remove them.10:25 - Tannins can be soaked out of decaying organics. They either stain the surface or discolor the water, or both.12:48 - If you don't clean off mesh covers, decaying organics will release tannins into the pool below

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00:31:33

Uneven Carbonation & other Plaster Discoloration |...

Rule Your Pool ·

2022/01/05

00:00 - Intro01:49 - Most people mistake this problem for scale. But it's not scale.05:05 - This is a chemistry issue, not specific to brand of finish or pigment. This is not a cement or pigment failure, it's a water chemistry problem that can be prevented.06:01 - How this occurs during plaster application, exposure and startup.15:36 - How this occurs months or years later, from aggressive water over time.21:04 - When we get calls about these issues, the answer is not always good news. We are not

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00:37:11

Calcite Crystals | Calcium Issues, pt. 4

Rule Your Pool ·

2021/12/29

00:00 - Intro04:18 - Calcite crystals are not the same thing as scale10:49 - Jarred describes photos of crystals14:18 - Jarred explains how to prevent crystals, and explains it better than Eric. Well done, Jarred.25:16 - We know of 4 types of crystals. Each has a different difficulty of removal.32:35 - Jarred summarizes, and summarizes better than Eric. Now you're just showing off, Jarred. ------------------------------------Connect with Orenda TechnologiesWebsite: https://www.orendatech.comBlog:

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00:21:17

Calcium Nodules | Calcium Issues, pt. 3

Rule Your Pool ·

2021/12/22

00:00 - Intro02:00 - Look up "nodule" on blog.orendatech.com, and you will find articles that show photos of calcium nodules. You can also do an online search of nodules and find plenty of information.04:32 - This is the Orenda podcast, and we believe you should hear both opinions on nodules. First, the NPC's position.08:08 - Now, the onBalance position.12:42 - Both sides acknowledge nodules are not scale. They are minerals from within (or behind) the plaster surface that come to the surface.17:12

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00:38:26

Carbonate Clouding and Dust | Calcium Issues, pt. 2

Rule Your Pool ·

2021/12/15

00:00 - Intro00:36 - Welcome to the team, Ryan Rickaby!01:20 - Review of calcium hardness (amount of calcium carbonate) vs. LSI (saturation of calcium carbonate)04:30 - Soda ash clouds the water instantly12:10 - Sharing Eric's screen (alkalinity equilibrium), which can be found on the Orenda Blog, search for Alkalinity14:21 - When the pH is high enough, carbonate ions (CO3- -) perfectly match with calcium ions (Ca++) to form calcium carbonate (CaCO3).19:10 - If you put 11+ pH soda ash into the

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00:34:32

What is Scale? | Calcium Issues, pt. 1

Rule Your Pool ·

2021/12/08

00:00 - Intro01:57 - Definition of scale: Scale is the hardened deposit of a calcium compound that has precipitated out of solution. 02:30 - Analogy of sugar in a drink. This analogy explains the difference between the saturation of calcium carbonate (LSI), and the amount of calcium carbonate (calcium hardness). 06:33 - Calcium carbonate (CaCO3) is the most common form of scale, by far. But there are other forms of scale: calcium silica, calcium sulfate, calcium phosphate, and probably some other

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00:16:57

Draining and Diluting a Pool

Rule Your Pool ·

2021/12/01

00:00 - Intro01:42 - Dilution is not always the solution. But it can be the most practical answer to get certain chemistry levels reduced.06:54 - Evaporation will not lead to dilution, because the dissolved solids stayed behind. Things will accumulate because tap water adds more dissolved solids to the water.07:09 - Dilution is not so much about high Total Dissolved Solids (TDS), it's about what's in that TDS. Specifically high cyanuric acid, and high calcium hardness.09:55 - You don't have to

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00:27:15

Ways to suppress pH from naturally rising

Rule Your Pool ·

2021/11/17

00:00 - Intro02:01 - Recap of Henry's Law of differential pressures. Any gas dissolved in a liquid will equalize with that same gas above the liquid.04:36 - If you exceed the pH ceiling, the atmosphere will literally push CO2 back into the water.04:57 - Where does CO2 come from when adding acid? It converts bicarbonate into carbonic acid (dissolved CO2).07:50 - We don't want bicarbonate ions to convert into carbonate ions (at 8.3 pH or higher) because carbonates are attracted to calcium ions,

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00:28:31

Water Chemistry Testing: 201

Rule Your Pool ·

2021/11/10

00:00 - Intro01:11 - Things can go wrong in water testing, so let's review the common mistakes and interferences.05:07 - Reagent expiration dates mean nothing if the kit is not stored properly. All test kits have a finite shelf life.09:10 - Bleaching reagents (very high chlorine) can distort other tests too.15:08 - Cold water interferes with accuracy too. Warm the sample before testing.18:48 - Mistakes are common when collecting a sample and taking it somewhere. Grab the sample from below the water

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00:29:42

Water Chemistry Testing: 101

Rule Your Pool ·

2021/11/03

00:00 - Intro - Joe's back!01:44 - Water chemistry testing is important because without it, managing swimming pools well becomes impossible.05:55 - Water testing is not difficult, but it takes practice and some effort to get good at it. It helps to keep a log of your test results!06:31 - How often should you test? It depends on the factor(s), but some should be every week, other should be once a month. Free chlorine may be a few times a week in some cases.13:10 - If you track your results, managing

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00:23:29

Introducing the Orenda Help Desk in Pool Service...

Rule Your Pool ·

2021/10/27

00:00 - Intro00:49 - Today's episode is about addressing problem pools in the most efficient way02:02 - Introducing Gus Velez, founder of Pool Service Software04:36 - PSS users are pool service professionals07:35 - They had a few chemistry support tickets come in, and they are not chemistry experts. So they went out looking for a partner who can help their users with water chemistry. They found Orenda.10:28 - When you call Orenda, it's most helpful if you give us the right info about the pool

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00:14:04

PPM and PPB

Rule Your Pool ·

2021/10/20

00:00 - Intro01:59 - PPM = parts per million. It's the density of a given substance dissolved in water. It's the ratio of that substance compared to water. 1 PPM means the dissolved substance is one-millionth of the volume of water.03:47 - PPM = mg/L. Converting from the metric system it makes sense. 1 cubic meter of water contains 1000 Liters. Each liter contains 1000 mL. Then we switch to solids, because we're talking about dissolved substances. 1 mL = 1000 mg.07:00 - Brief overview of chemistry

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00:30:23

Concrete Pool Shell Problems | Weepers,...

Rule Your Pool ·

2021/10/13

00:00 - Intro02:54 - Water chemistry did not cause these problems. These are structural issues.03:54 - Three main problems: weepers, efflorescence, and calcium nodules.04:09 - Weepers are active leaks in concrete, where water is flowing through concrete. Usually this is from behind the concrete shell due to groundwater pressure. But it can also be on a raised wall where the pool itself pushes through a weakness in concrete.06:23 - Shotcrete is applied pneumatically, and the density of it is

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00:27:39

Pool Covers and Winterization

Rule Your Pool ·

2021/10/06

00:00 - Intro02:35 - Jarred is wearing a Slytherin shirt. He's more of a Ravenclaw, TBH.04:12 - Type of pool cover impacts your winterization chemistry (dilution, pH rise)06:51 - Other types of pool covers that are not for winterizing: thermal and solar blankets. They are not safety covers and are not appropriate for winterization.08:40 - Safety covers are designed to support a lot of weight to keep animals and people (and cars) out of pools.10:54 - Mesh covers allow transfer of water and gas

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