Why Joining the IPSSA Community is a Great Plan

Why Joining the IPSSA Community is a Great Plan

The Independent Pool & Spa Service Association, or IPSSA, recently surveyed its nationwide member base to find out which of its member benefits ranks highest. The answer was overwhelmingly the IPSSA Sick Route Coverage Plan. What is the IPSSA Sick Route Coverage Plan? This is consistently the top-ranked benefit among members. The IPSSA Sick Route…

IPSSA Expands Education Fund

The Independent Pool and Spa Service Association, is pleased to announce the expansion of its Education Fund in an effort to lower the overall cost of education for service professionals. The subsidized training courses are available to all self-employed swimming pool/spa service professionals in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Nevada and Texas regardless of whether or…

IPSSA Releases Water Training Manual

The Independent Pool & Spa Service Association has released the IPSSA Intermediate Training Manual 2017 Revised Edition Part 1 — Chemicals. Written by Robert Lowry, the revised/updated edition has current information on algae, cleaning up a swamp, using borates, advanced oxidation process (AOP), saturation index for pros, advanced water treating techniques, advances in water testing and…

A Man and His Truck

A Man and His Truck

Photography by Rodrigo mendez In 1994, a 27-year-old Todd Starner and his younger brother Jeff sat across the kitchen table from their father, Richard, asking for money. Eyeing a motorcycle? A vacation? Debt relief? Hardly. The brothers wanted to become entrepreneurs and needed $10,000 to buy a 50-pool service route from their retiring boss, Donnie…

IPSSA’s New President

IPSSA’s New President

As a boy, Adam Morley, the president of IPSSA, would idly push a net around his grandfather’s pool to stave off boredom, What he couldn’t have known then, of course, is how this pastime would play a role in his future. Morley, now president and CEO of the Independent Pool and Spa Service Association (IPSSA)…