And holy moly I see how pools turn into water equivalent to a failed science experiment. While i was waiting to buy some o-rings, the manager tested a couple peoples water. The story was the same on both water tests: "your phosphates are high, your alkalinity is low. Your CYA is good under 100ppm." He sold them all kinds of stuff. He told the 2nd guy to shock his pool with 2 bags of dichlor. Then the customer mentioned slight cloudiness and the manager said he should go ahead and use 4 bags then. Without even knowing the size of his pool! I don't know what "CYA under 100" means....but if that customer has a small pool, he's probably over 100 now. I haven't seen one person outside of TFP preach about the problem of high CYA. Most people are clueless that it builds up. This is why my friend had to drain his pool...relied on nothing but what the pool store told him to do.
Do these pool stores intentionally sell people things they don't need just to make money or are they all trained by a handbook they reference on day 1 of working there? I suspect a little bit of both.
Do these pool stores intentionally sell people things they don't need just to make money or are they all trained by a handbook they reference on day 1 of working there? I suspect a little bit of both.