Your pool manual, made from photos of your equipment.
Bought a house with a pool? Send photos of the equipment pad and we label every valve, pump, filter and heater on your own photo, with the run schedule and water targets for your pool.
Written by someone who ran a pool service company for 16 years (110 pools at peak).
The new pool owner guide for the pool you actually have
Most new pool owner guides explain pools in general. Then you walk out to the equipment pad and find two valves with no labels, a panel with buttons, and a filter gauge you have never seen. "My pool manual" should mean a manual for my pool. That is what this is.
What is in the pool section
- Your equipment pad photo with every part numbered.
- Valve positions for pool, spa and spillover modes.
- Each piece of equipment named, with its age and what to plan for.
- A pump run schedule for summer, spring and fall, and winter.
- Water targets for your pool type (salt or chlorine, plaster or other surfaces).
- A weekly routine and the pool part of the freeze plan.
Why it is different
It is written from 16 years of running a pool service company, so it covers the things that actually go wrong: valves left in spa mode, filters that never get cleaned, salt cells nobody checks, and pumps turned off during a freeze.
Pool add-on questions
Can I buy the pool manual by itself?
The pool section is sold as an add-on to the Home Manual ($79 + $39). If you only want the pool, tell us in the early-access form; we may offer it on its own later.
What pool photos do I need?
A wide shot of the equipment pad, close-ups of every equipment sticker (pump, filter, heater, salt cell, automation), each valve, the filter pressure gauge, and one photo of the whole pool and spa.
Will it tell me how much chemical to add?
It gives you the water targets for your pool type and how to test. For exact doses we point you to a pool chemistry calculator and the product label, because doses depend on that day's test.
Do you service pools?
Not through First Night Manual itself. In the Dallas area the manual may suggest Dallas Pool Patrol, which is owned by our founder; you are never required to use it. Elsewhere it points you to a local pool pro.