The most common causes of cloudy water are improperly balanced water chemistry, insufficient water filtration, environmental conditions, and the addition of granular or powder chemicals. Patience is a virtue when it comes to clearing cloudy water, but through the process of elimination it can be done. It is important to understand the root cause of…
How to Winterize Your Pool
Why Winterize Your Pool Winterizing, or closing your pool, is necessary if you live in a climate that sees temperatures below freezing for any length of time. Water expands when frozen and can result in costly repairs to your pool plumbing and equipment unless you winterize prior to freezing weather. Generally, you want to winterize…
What Makes the Smart Monitor Different Infographics
We wanted to do a quick infographic on what make the Smart Monitor different.
Why is Sutro Better?
We get this question all the time and it’s time we answered it! Fives Years And Two Continents Development Sutro started 5 years ago. Ravi Kurani, our founder and CEO, had an idea — how to “fix” water. Ravi worked at his dad Harry’s pool store when he was a kid. He was also a…
How to Close an Inground Pool
A Guest Post Joel Peters Section 1: Introduction Getting in your pool is one of the best moments of summer. It is more fun when you uncover your pool and find it clear and well maintained. It is very disgusting to uncover your pool and find it all swampy and green. This is why it…
How to Increment Minor Versions on Google Play Store and Apple App Store
The other day we released a new app version and posted it to our internal testers on our Facebook Beta Tester Group. To our dismay, we launched version 1.3 and realized that as we told our users to download the app- it was not showing the latest version. What happened? Apple is a tad bit…
How to Open an Inground Pool for the Summer
A Guest Post by Joel Peters Section 1: Introduction When most people hear the word pool, different things run through their minds. They think about fun, relaxation, exercise, and summer. Some also think about all the refreshing dips they took during hot summer days. The get-togethers, parties, and of course, the relay races always come…
How to Get Accurate Time When It’s Relative
To many, the Sutro time-stamp was moving around like a phantom. Sometimes it would be in the future, other times it would be in the past. Sometimes it would be within minutes of when you looked at it last. It was frustrating for both us and our beta testers since it made a lot of…
Sutro’s Love Your Pool (or Spa) Again Vision
Sutro started with looking at the world through the lens of water. We looked around, and saw everything that was blue, and zoomed into those that contained hydrogen and oxygen pairs (or triples, well – two hydrogen for one oxygen… whatever that’s called). We asked the question – what has water looked like, what does…
The Importance of Pool & Spa Maintenance During COVID-19
Many areas in the United States are currently under recommendations to shelter in place because of COVID-19. This means we’re going to spend a lot more time at home in our pools or spa. It might cross your mind to start getting your pool (or spa) ready a little earlier this year. In this post,…