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Where does one go on the net (other than here) for advice on swimming
pools?

Your local pool supplier can be a big help. They usually have free water
testing, and this tells you a lot more about your pool than you'll see with
the basic test kits.


I'm building a pool soon, and would like impartial advice on, for
instance, the pros and cons of saline -based chlorinators versus ozone
generators. The problem is that the advice i see in this group came
from something called "people". Having read the advice I've found I've
come to the conclusion that "people" are very subjective in their
opinions. For example, dozens of posts are generated praising, then
slandering, one particular form of pool sanitation technology, which
then degenerates into dozens of messages questioning the ethics,
intelligence and general worth of the "people" involved. At the end of
which I am no closer to making a decision.


Some people just have too much time on their hands, are anal, are just angry
people, or like to shriek.

To the more reasonable and calmer "people" out there who have had a
similar experience, what resources did you use to arrive at your
decisions?


I got a lot of mine from the pool store and from practical experience
garnered from five years of trial and error education by owning a pool.

Coming to Usenet for pool advice is shaky at best, because pools in
different parts of the country are different. They are different because of
the water, the climate, rain, lack of rain, wind, temperature, etc. So, the
advice you get may be good advice if you live near the poster, but not so
good if you live in another climate zone where the same information may be
worthless.

Start local and go from there. It isn't rocket surgery, and you need to
learn about how it works where YOU live.

Steve