Introduction

My name is Jeff Judson, I am a 44 year old, regular, hard working entrepreneur with a deep, burning desire to be helpful, in some small way, to everyone I come in contact with. I know some things about swimming pools and their related equipment. I am a certified NSPF® Instructor living in the Seattle area, loving every day! This blog is dedicated to sharing what I know, to learning what I don't, and then sharing that, too. Every pool is different and I want to help you with yours! 

I have been in the 'aquatics' industry since my father started a spa/sauna company in 1972 in Southern California named The Sauna Shoppe. He began selling and installing sauna rooms, steam rooms, wood hot tubs and in-ground fiberglass spas before there was such a thing as a portable (self-contained) spa. Each installation was custom and required plenty of skilled, hard labor. He made sure that I started learning how to do all of it as soon as I could hold a shovel in my hand, and I definitely learned quickly. He thought it was cool, that he had trained me well enough, so when a spa installation was completed and ready to be turned over to the customer, I would be the one to train them on operations and maintenance - I was 9 or 10 the first time I remember.

Since then I have been blessed to have learned so much through various positions I have held, including pool cleaning technician, repair technician, new pool construction crew leader - plumbing and electrical, service department manager, customer service manager, facility manager and business owner. Each of these positions have required me to spend a lot of time with people, showing them how to operate their pools and coaching them through challenges that could have been easily avoided with very basic understanding of how pools operate. 

There are countless experiences that I can share, but this blog is meant to be very basic and show only the fundamentals of swimming pool operation and maintenance, so if you already know this stuff, great! If you recently got a pool and have no idea what to do with it, other than swim in it, then stay tuned, I will be breaking them down to be easily understood. My goal is to make it easy for you!

Please feel free to contact me outside of this blog if you have an immediate need that I can help with. I am embracing todays technology and can communicate in several ways, helping each of us be very specific. Otherwise, stay tuned for a lot of content, I will try to be consistent!

P.S. This blog will be filled, mostly, with my opinion which is based on my lifes' experience in the swimming pool industry. All things I state as facts will be researched and presented along with the source information. 
The whole point of this blog is to help someone that has never taken care of a pool before and sees them as a hole in the ground that we can swim in and has no idea of how they work.