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Free, practical pool care guides — new guides every week.

Pool opening checklist

A step-by-step pool opening checklist: remove the cover, restart equipment, clean, and balance water chemistry in the right order.

Learn pool water chemistry basics: target ranges for free chlorine, pH, alkalinity, calcium hardness and cyanuric acid, and how to fix each.

How to winterize a pool step by step: balance water, clean, lower water, blow out lines, drain equipment and install the cover.