Hello my name is Kyle, I am the maintenance supervisor of a large apartment complex in southeastern New Mexico which is in the desert and easily gets 100+ degrees in the summer and winter lows get bekow 32 but not by much. I’m also the cpo for our 2 pools and 2 spas at our property and 2 more sets of pools and spas one at each of our other properties. I started learning about and taking care of pools about 3.5 years ago and I’ve had my cpo for about 2 years.
Going a little more in depth on the facilities at my property, we have 2 separate faculties. One we call the “outdoor pool & outdoor spa” because it’s fully outdoors. They are like 13-15 years old I’d say. The other we call the “indoor pool and indoor spa” even though the pool is indoors and the spa is just outside they are probably 10-12years old. The outdoor pool is ran off trichlor tablets. The outdoor spa, the indoor pool, and the indoor spa all are bromine. We have controllers to tell the chlorinates and the acid pumps when to run. All 4 are open year round and all 4 are heated. The indoor pool is heated between 78-80 year round and the outdoor pool runs the heaters at 55 in the winter and then I turn them up once it starts to warm up a little so the waters nice enough to swim as soon as the weather is and then I turn them fully off in summer because it’s so hot they make the pool heat up too much.
Volume gets a little tricky. Both spas are 2,100 gallons. The indoor pool is 26,000 and the outdoor pool is either 58,000 or 65,000 I have two different sheets saying two different volume and the pool is incredibly oddly shaped so the times I’ve tried to calculate volume on my own I’ve found it to be challenging to get accurate measurements even with the blueprints.
Everything is running smoothly we just passed our yearly inspections yesterday but the only issue with water chemistry I’m having is the trichlor tablets adding too much cya overtime. When I took over this job it was well over 350 and we had to drain most the water a couple times to get it down but I know it’s just going to climb back up with how much water is in the pool, how much traffic and how hot it gets here we just use way too many chlorine tablets. I know supplementing with something like liquid chlorine or non-chlorine shock or whatever is recommended but I feel like we would go through so much to keep it chlorinated but I thought about running a pump and getting liquid chlorine tanks. I’m not sure what the best solution is. We had one of our other properties that was just recently built, and when they built the pool, they set it up as a saltwater pool with calcium hypochlorite chlorinators and they sucked the lines were tiny like 1/2 pvc on the bottom and when you took off the kids the lids were such a pain it would cause the pips to stress and crack and leak so idk about converting to cal hypo either. Just wondering what everyone’s suggestions are.
Going a little more in depth on the facilities at my property, we have 2 separate faculties. One we call the “outdoor pool & outdoor spa” because it’s fully outdoors. They are like 13-15 years old I’d say. The other we call the “indoor pool and indoor spa” even though the pool is indoors and the spa is just outside they are probably 10-12years old. The outdoor pool is ran off trichlor tablets. The outdoor spa, the indoor pool, and the indoor spa all are bromine. We have controllers to tell the chlorinates and the acid pumps when to run. All 4 are open year round and all 4 are heated. The indoor pool is heated between 78-80 year round and the outdoor pool runs the heaters at 55 in the winter and then I turn them up once it starts to warm up a little so the waters nice enough to swim as soon as the weather is and then I turn them fully off in summer because it’s so hot they make the pool heat up too much.
Volume gets a little tricky. Both spas are 2,100 gallons. The indoor pool is 26,000 and the outdoor pool is either 58,000 or 65,000 I have two different sheets saying two different volume and the pool is incredibly oddly shaped so the times I’ve tried to calculate volume on my own I’ve found it to be challenging to get accurate measurements even with the blueprints.
Everything is running smoothly we just passed our yearly inspections yesterday but the only issue with water chemistry I’m having is the trichlor tablets adding too much cya overtime. When I took over this job it was well over 350 and we had to drain most the water a couple times to get it down but I know it’s just going to climb back up with how much water is in the pool, how much traffic and how hot it gets here we just use way too many chlorine tablets. I know supplementing with something like liquid chlorine or non-chlorine shock or whatever is recommended but I feel like we would go through so much to keep it chlorinated but I thought about running a pump and getting liquid chlorine tanks. I’m not sure what the best solution is. We had one of our other properties that was just recently built, and when they built the pool, they set it up as a saltwater pool with calcium hypochlorite chlorinators and they sucked the lines were tiny like 1/2 pvc on the bottom and when you took off the kids the lids were such a pain it would cause the pips to stress and crack and leak so idk about converting to cal hypo either. Just wondering what everyone’s suggestions are.
