What to do this week — and this year
Routines for first-year owners: weekly habits, opening, winterizing, and the differences that change your plan. Symptom emergencies live under Problems.
New to owning a pool?
Keep clear water with a simple rhythm
Weekly pool care
Test, skim, brush, filter runtime — the loop that prevents green.
Coming soonMonth-by-month calendar
What tends to matter each month so you’re not surprised by the season.
Coming soonOpen and close with a sequence
Open the pool (Spring)
Spring startup: safety, systems, chemistry order, first clear.
Coming soon
Winterize the pool (Fall/Winter)
Close-down sequence, freeze risk, covers — protect the investment for next season.
Coming soon
Your pool type changes the details
Same chemistry ideas — different volume traps and equipment limits for above-ground pools.
Above-ground differences — coming soonLatest
Care guides
Newest first — all topics mixed. Tags show which path each guide belongs to.
First-year owner roadmap
Just took over the pool
Read guide
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Weekly pool care
What to do each week
Coming soon
Open the pool
Spring startup
Coming soon
Winterize the pool
Fall close-down
Coming soon
Month-by-month calendar
Planning the year
Coming soon
Above-ground differences
Above-ground owners
Looking for something else?
Care is the calendar. If the water’s already wrong — or you only need a number — jump there.
- The water looks wrong right now Green, cloudy, smell — symptom-first triage.
- My test strip numbers don’t make sense Chemistry hubs: pH, alkalinity, chlorine, shock.
- How much chemical do I add? Dose calculator — then retest.
- What should I buy (strips, shock, chlorine)? How to choose — not a product dump.