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…
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…
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)…