Rule Your Pool

Rule Your Pool

20 episodes

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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Unnaturally Natural

Published: Jan. 10, 2024, 2 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 50 seconds

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Chemical product percentages and molar weight ratios

Published: Dec. 20, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 5 seconds

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Recap of the 2023 Int'l Pool and Spa Show

Published: Dec. 6, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 1 second

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Top Questions of 2023

Published: Nov. 15, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 56 seconds

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Alkalinity's complicated relationship with chlorine

Published: Nov. 1, 2023, 1 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 49 seconds

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The man who rules his pool

Published: Oct. 25, 2023, 1 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 8 seconds

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Commercial Swimming Pools (w/ Dennis Ingram)

Published: Oct. 18, 2023, 1 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 7 seconds

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Indoor Air Quality, and Remembering Derek Ingram (w/ Dennis Ingram)

Published: Oct. 4, 2023, 1 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 15 seconds

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Chemical Conflicts | Specialty Chemicals

Published: Sept. 27, 2023, 1 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 40 seconds

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Chemical Conflicts | Alternative Sanitizers (w/ Terry Arko)

Published: Sept. 20, 2023, 1 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 59 seconds

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Chemical Conflicts | Algaecides (w/ Terry Arko)

Published: Sept. 13, 2023, 1 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 34 seconds

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Chemical Conflicts | Chlorine

Published: Aug. 23, 2023, 6:28 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 26 seconds

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Understanding Biofilms (w/ Darla Goeres, Ph.D.)

Published: Aug. 16, 2023, 1 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 11 seconds

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Calcium and LSI in Fiberglass and Vinyl Pools (w/ Tyler Mills)

Published: Aug. 9, 2023, 3:35 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 59 seconds

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Green and Yellow (Mustard) Algae (w/ Terry Arko)

Published: July 26, 2023, 1 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 11 seconds

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Black Algae

Published: July 19, 2023, 1 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 47 seconds

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Chelating vs. Sequestering, and Chlorinating after SC-1000

Published: July 4, 2023, 1 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 24 seconds

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Understanding Calcium: the bedrock of water balance

Published: June 28, 2023, 1 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 27 seconds

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Understanding Bromine (w/ Terry Arko)

Published: June 21, 2023, 1 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 52 seconds

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Chemical Forecasting (w/ Tyler Mills)

Published: June 14, 2023, 1 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 10 seconds

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Minimalism: Addition by Subtraction

Published: June 9, 2023, 5:37 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 30 seconds

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The Return of the King (w/ Harold Evans)

Published: June 2, 2023, 10:38 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 13 seconds

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Clean water with a slice of Humble Pie

Published: May 25, 2023, 1 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 7 seconds

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Top Ten things Kathryn has learned from Orenda

Published: May 17, 2023, 1 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 52 seconds

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Breaking Bad Water

Published: May 10, 2023, 1 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 12 seconds

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Orenda App 4.0 - Updates, integrations, and the future

Published: May 4, 2023, 1 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 1 second

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Team Orenda and our integration with HASA (w/Terry Arko)

Published: April 26, 2023, 1 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 5 seconds

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New company ownership, same tolerable podcast

Published: March 29, 2023, 6:14 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 39 seconds

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Understanding Calcium Sulfate Scale Crystals

Published: March 22, 2023, 1 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 11 seconds

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How to Manage Pollen in Pools

Published: March 15, 2023, 1 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 19 seconds

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How to Contact Us at Orenda (the Right Way)

Published: March 8, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 55 seconds

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What Water Wants

Published: Feb. 8, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 49 seconds

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Live from the NESPA Show in Atlantic City

Published: Jan. 27, 2023, 5 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 46 seconds

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Stop Helicopter Parenting your Pool

Published: Jan. 4, 2023, 2 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 6 seconds

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How to use the Orenda App

Published: Dec. 24, 2022, 2 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 34 seconds

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7/7 - What raises and lowers Phosphates?

Published: Dec. 21, 2022, 2 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 50 seconds

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6/7 - What raises and lowers Combined Chlorine?

Published: Dec. 14, 2022, 2 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 36 seconds

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5/7 - What raises and lowers Total Dissolved Solids (TDS)?

Published: Dec. 7, 2022, 2 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes

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4/7 - What raises and lowers Cyanuric Acid (CYA)?

Published: Nov. 30, 2022, 2 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 15 seconds

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3/7 - What raises and lowers Calcium Hardness?

Published: Nov. 23, 2022, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 16 seconds

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2/7 - What raises and lowers Total Alkalinity?

Published: Nov. 16, 2022, 2 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 14 seconds

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1/7 - What raises and lowers pH?

Published: Nov. 9, 2022, 2 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 46 seconds

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Intro - What Raises and Lowers specific chemistry factors? (7-part series)

Published: Nov. 2, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 51 seconds

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Cold Water Startups

Published: Oct. 26, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 32 seconds

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Podcasting with the Pool Chasers

Published: Oct. 19, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes

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Swimming Pool Recovery After a Hurricane

Published: Oct. 12, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 43 seconds

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Winter is Coming...Again (feat. Miguel Chavez)

Published: Oct. 5, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 21 seconds

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Here's to the Naysayers

Published: Sept. 29, 2022, 11:45 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 25 seconds

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Good Enough is the Enemy of Great

Published: Sept. 21, 2022, 1:28 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 37 seconds

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We Learned How to Plaster a Pool...

Published: Sept. 14, 2022, 2:33 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 59 seconds

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Three Water Tests that are 100% Reliable, but not Precise

Published: Sept. 7, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 29 seconds

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Plaster Finish Issues (w/ Bill Drakeley, Watershapes University)

Published: Aug. 31, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 31 seconds

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Understanding Shotcrete (w/ Bill Drakeley, Watershapes University)

Published: Aug. 24, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 41 seconds

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Cyanuric Acid (CYA) and Chlorine Strength

Published: Aug. 17, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 9 seconds

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Pools Per Gallon | Chemical Efficiency

Published: Aug. 10, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 56 seconds

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Understanding Borates

Published: Aug. 3, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 34 seconds

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Can't hold chlorine for a week?

Published: July 27, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 4 seconds

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Why are LSI and chemical dosing results different in Orenda 3.0?

Published: July 20, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 5 seconds

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App Feedback and RIP Startup Barrel Platform

Published: July 18, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 39 seconds

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Orenda 3.0 | The new Orenda App Update

Published: July 13, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 31 seconds

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ask.orendatech.com | The Orenda Help Center

Published: July 6, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 27 seconds

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Different Types of Phosphates

Published: July 1, 2022, 8:10 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 4 seconds

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CYA, Water Temperature, and Chlorine Loss

Published: June 22, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 50 seconds

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Why Orenda's Advice sometimes Conflicts with Industry Standards, Textbooks and Pool Stores

Published: June 15, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 48 seconds

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How to use SPA-500

Published: June 8, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 12 seconds

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How to use CE-Clarifier

Published: June 1, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 30 seconds

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How to use CV-600 and CV-700 Enzymes

Published: May 25, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 24 seconds

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How to use SC-1000 Scale & Metal Control

Published: May 18, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 27 seconds

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How to use PR-10,000 Phosphate Remover

Published: May 11, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 21 seconds

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How to do an Orenda Purge, and Why

Published: May 4, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 50 seconds

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How to Adjust Alkalinity

Published: April 27, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 32 seconds

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Swim Across America (w/ Rob Butcher)

Published: April 20, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 15 seconds

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Spring Cleaning

Published: April 6, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 59 seconds

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How to Implement the Orenda Program

Published: March 30, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 57 seconds

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What Causes Calcium Hardness to Change?

Published: March 23, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 42 seconds

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How Salt Chlorine Generators Actually Work

Published: March 16, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 41 seconds

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Preparing for Spring Openings in 2022

Published: March 2, 2022, 2 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 37 seconds

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The Power of Standardizing Pool Chemistry and Practices

Published: Feb. 23, 2022, 2 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 13 seconds

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Ways to Reduce Employee Turnover

Published: Feb. 9, 2022, 2 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 12 seconds

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Organic Staining and Tannins

Published: Jan. 19, 2022, 2 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 16 seconds

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Uneven Carbonation & other Plaster Discoloration | Calcium Issues, pt. 5

Published: Jan. 5, 2022, 2 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 33 seconds

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Calcite Crystals | Calcium Issues, pt. 4

Published: Dec. 29, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 11 seconds

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Calcium Nodules | Calcium Issues, pt. 3

Published: Dec. 22, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 17 seconds

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Carbonate Clouding and Dust | Calcium Issues, pt. 2

Published: Dec. 15, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 26 seconds

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What is Scale? | Calcium Issues, pt. 1

Published: Dec. 8, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 32 seconds

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Draining and Diluting a Pool

Published: Dec. 1, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 57 seconds

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Ways to suppress pH from naturally rising

Published: Nov. 17, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 15 seconds

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Water Chemistry Testing: 201

Published: Nov. 10, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 31 seconds

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Water Chemistry Testing: 101

Published: Nov. 3, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 42 seconds

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Introducing the Orenda Help Desk in Pool Service Software (PSS)

Published: Oct. 27, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 29 seconds

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PPM and PPB

Published: Oct. 20, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 4 seconds

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Concrete Pool Shell Problems | Weepers, Efflorescence, and Calcium Nodules

Published: Oct. 13, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 23 seconds

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Pool Covers and Winterization

Published: Oct. 6, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 39 seconds

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Closing your pool the Orenda way

Published: Sept. 29, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 35 seconds

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Wildfires and Swimming Pools

Published: Sept. 8, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 57 seconds

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Pool Party Chemistry

Published: Sept. 1, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 37 seconds

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Evaporation and Accumulation

Published: Sept. 1, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 53 seconds

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Containing pH vs. Controlling pH

Published: Aug. 25, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 10 seconds

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Calcium Flakes in Saltwater Pools

Published: Aug. 18, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 28 seconds

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Combined Chlorine 201: How to reduce combined chlorine

Published: Aug. 11, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 52 seconds

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Combined Chlorine 101: What are chloramines?

Published: Aug. 4, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 18 seconds

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Muriatic acid alternatives: Sulfuric Acid, Sodium Bisulfate and CO2

Published: July 28, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 36 seconds

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Ways to optimize chlorine efficiency

Published: July 21, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 25 seconds

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How to Use Less Acid: Stop Chasing pH

Published: July 2, 2021, 6:17 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 48 seconds

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Minimalist Pool Care, with Harold Evans

Published: June 23, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 15 seconds

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The Golden Rule, with Harold Evans

Published: June 16, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 32 seconds

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How to Fix 3 Types of Green Pools

Published: June 9, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 3 seconds

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Why is My Pool Green?

Published: June 2, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 44 seconds

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Pillar 4: Minimal Cyanuric Acid (CYA) | Orenda's Four Pillars

Published: May 26, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 59 seconds

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Pillar 3: Phosphate Removal | Orenda's Four Pillars

Published: May 19, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 54 seconds

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Pillar 2: Non-living Organics | Orenda's Four Pillars

Published: May 12, 2021, 7:10 p.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 30 seconds

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Pillar 1: LSI Balance | Orenda's Four Pillars

Published: May 5, 2021, 6:17 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 5 seconds

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4 Types of Chlorine | Trichlor and Dichlor

Published: April 15, 2021, 9:22 p.m.
Duration: 17 minutes 6 seconds

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4 Types of Chlorine | Calcium Hypochlorite

Published: March 10, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 47 seconds

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4 Types of Chlorine | Liquid Chlorine/Sodium Hypochlorite

Published: Feb. 24, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 29 seconds

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4 Types of Chlorine | "Salt Water Pools"

Published: Feb. 10, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 24 seconds

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4 Types of Chlorine | Saltwater Pools

Published: Feb. 10, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 24 seconds

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4 Types of Chlorine | Intro

Published: Jan. 27, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 10 seconds

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Hindsight is 2020

Published: Jan. 13, 2021, 10 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 25 seconds

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Why Prices Are Going Up in 2021

Published: Dec. 23, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 20 seconds

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The Orenda Startup Procedure

Published: Dec. 9, 2020, 8:23 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 19 seconds

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Cement Cures Ugly | Orenda Startup Philosophy

Published: Nov. 25, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 56 seconds

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Winter Is Coming

Published: Nov. 13, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 43 seconds

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6 Bad Habits | Part 2

Published: Nov. 12, 2020, 5:35 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 38 seconds

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6 Bad Habits | Part 1

Published: Oct. 14, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 18 minutes 40 seconds

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The LSI | Cyanuric Acid (CYA)

Published: Sept. 30, 2020, 10 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 34 seconds

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The LSI | Total Dissolved Solids

Published: Sept. 16, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 31 seconds

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Calcium Hardness

Published: Sept. 2, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 32 seconds

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The LSI | Calcium Hardness

Published: Sept. 2, 2020, 9 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 31 seconds

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The LSI | Water Temperature: The Most Ignored (Neglected) Factor

Published: Aug. 19, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 57 seconds

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The LSI | Water Temperature

Published: Aug. 19, 2020, 8 a.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 57 seconds

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The Langelier Saturation Index (LSI)

Published: Aug. 12, 2020, 8:50 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 26 seconds

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Introduction to the Langelier Saturation Index

Published: Aug. 12, 2020, 8:50 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 26 seconds

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Understanding pH

Published: Aug. 12, 2020, 7:24 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 18 seconds

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Understanding Alkalinity

Published: Aug. 11, 2020, 7:55 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 45 seconds

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Understanding Alkalinity in Swimming Pools

Published: Aug. 11, 2020, 7:55 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 45 seconds

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pH vs. Total Alkalinity, and Their Roles in Pool Chemistry

Published: June 29, 2020, 12:27 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 26 seconds

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Introduction to Rule Your Pool Podcast by Orenda Technologies

Published: June 16, 2020, 5:14 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 40 seconds

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