Basic Pool Chemistry: Troubleshooting Guide [2025]

📘 2025 – Basic Pool Chemistry Troubleshooting Guide

By Tim | From Tim’s Pool Guide Series

Creator of ThePoolAndDeck.com – 300+ articles on pool & deck care

Pool ownership is great — until something goes wrong.

Water turns cloudy. Algae shows up. Chlorine smells weird. Suddenly, you're knee-deep in Google searches with no clear answers.

This guide fixes that.

I’m Tim — pool owner, writer, and the guy behind ThePoolAndDeck.com. After helping thousands of pool owners solve real-world water chemistry problems, I’ve compiled the most common ones — and how to solve them — into this practical, no-BS ebook.

What you’ll get:

✔️ 50+ pages of expert troubleshooting

✔️ Covers 17 real problems pool owners face

✔️ Clear fixes, explained simply

✔️ Costs less than two coffees, saves you hundreds in mistakes

You’ll learn how to handle:

• Cloudy water, green/black/mustard algae

• Skin or eye irritation

• Chlorine lock & high demand

• Metal stains, scale, corrosion, foaming

• Pink slime, erratic pH, excess CYA, and more

Plus:

✅ Water test ranges

✅ How to shock your pool the right way

✅ Smart tips to keep issues from coming back

Why this book matters:

• Written by someone who’s seen every one of these problems firsthand
• Focused on real solutions, not theory
• Saves you hours of frustration and wasted chemicals

Download your copy now — and take control of your pool, not vice versa.

– Tim