Keep the pool. Keep the money. If somebody else takes care of your pool, you pay for it four times: the service company, the pool store counter, the power company, and the crew that opens and closes it. Liquid Assets shows you how to do the job yourself, plainly, with the arithmetic showing, so most of that money stays with you. Test your own water and buy only what it needs, not what the printout sells you Buy chlorine by its cost per ppm and get the balancers at grocery and hardware store prices Set the pump for the hours your water needs and cut the power bill Clear a green pool for under $40, and check the cheap part before anyone sells you a new pump Open and close the pool yourself, and know which jobs still belong to a licensed pro 188 pages · 18 chapters · 7 bonus charts · 31 photos and diagrams · instant PDF download The money you're about to keep A cold-state owner who pays for weekly service, pool store chemicals, the pump at 12 hours a day, and an opening and closing spends about $4,657 a year. Done the book's way, the same year costs under $1,200. That's about $3,470 kept in a quiet year, and more in a year with a green pool or a humming pump. What's inside Start Here: Where Your Pool Money Goes What's Really in the Bucket The Free Water Test That Costs You $80 Stop Feeding Your Chlorine to the Sun The Pump Bill Nobody Explains Green to Blue for Under $40 Cloudy Water: The 5 Causes and the Cheap Fix for Each Clean Your Filter Less, Not More The 15-Minute Week Salt Pools: The Machine Isn't Magic Stains, Scale and the Waterline Before You Replace It Is It a Leak or Just Evaporation? Heat Your Pool for Less Close Your Own Pool for $40 Keeping It Open All Winter Open Your Own Pool for $10 When a Pro Is Worth Every Penny Plus Quick Answers to the questions owners ask most, a one-page Stop-If Summary of every red line, seven Bonus Charts (receipt translator, dosing chart, water color chart, weekly checklist, opening and closing checklists, pump run-time worksheet, pool money map) and sources by chapter. Ray Halvorsen is a pen name. The route stories are illustrations; the prices and rules come from the sources listed at the back. General information, not professional advice: follow every label, and use a licensed professional for electrical and gas work. If this book doesn't save you money, email me within 30 days for a full refund.