Fiberglass Pool Chemistry (w/ Bill Khamis)
5/20/20261 hr 6 min
[00:00] - Intro
[00:38] - Bill's background
[07:27] - Expanding education and manufacturing capabilities
[14:44] - Clearance for fiberglass pool installation
[17:28] - How to become a fiberglass pool installer
[24:03] - Researching fiberglass "chalking"
[31:36] - Selflessness
[34:09] - Chalking looks like calcium silicate bound to to gelcoat polymers
[37:40] - The LSI, and chelating calcium
[40:04] - Gelcoat molecular structure
[46:15] - Thursday Pools' chemistry recommendations
[52:49] - One chemistry strategy that gets everyone's needs met
[57:00] - UV systems impact fiberglass chalking?!
[1:01:39] - Closing
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First 90 secondsEric Knight· Host0:00
Welcome back everybody to The Rule Your Pool podcast. This is episode 191. Hard to believe we've gotten this far. I'm your sub-optimal host, Eric Knight, and today I've got an unbelievable guest that I'm excited to have on. I've actually wanted him on this podcast for about two years now, and we finally have him. Bill Camus, the founder of Thursday Pools. Thank you so much for joining this show.
Bill Khamis· Guest0:19
Heh, you're welcome. It's my pleasure. But, but I've got to correct you on two things already, Eric.
Eric Knight· Host0:24
Oh, yeah?
Bill Khamis· Guest0:24
You're not sub-optimal. You are the optimal, man.
Eric Knight· Host0:27
Oh, [laughs] well.
Bill Khamis· Guest0:28
You are the- Clearly you don't listen to a lot of podcasts. Me neither. I, I'm just one more person, so.
Eric Knight· Host0:32
All right. Well, thank you so much, and today we're going to talk about fiberglass pools. So let's get right into it. Welcome to the new Rule Your Pool podcast. The podcast about everything swimming pools, from design, construction, engineering, air quality, and of course, water chemistry, simplified so that anybody can understand it. I'm your host, Eric Knight, clarifying these subjects so that you can clarify your water. You ready to rule your pool? Then let's go. Okay. So Bill, I met you a few years ago. We actually got introduced because of some chemistry articles that I had written about chalking in fiberglass, because that was one of the big chemistry topics.
Bill Khamis· Guest1:10
Yeah.
Eric Knight· Host1:10
And as I've gotten to know you, I've become more and more fascinated with what you're doing at Thursday Pools. Let's go back to the start. How did you get into the pool business? And just give a, you know, a brief 30,000 view summary of how you got into this- Yeah ... and, and how it got to where it is today.
Bill Khamis· Guest1:25
Well, the real fast story. So I'm actually an accountant. I'm a CPA, you know, by