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New to pool and spa work? Read these guides in order. They build the mental model used throughout the rest of the Playbook.
- BasicsGuideBLX-FND-001 · v1.4
How to Use the BlueLux Playbook
How to navigate the Playbook, use its field and learning layers, understand scope, and resolve instructions that differ.
- BasicsGuideBLX-FND-002 · v1.4
Pool and Spa System Fundamentals
A field-first model of how pools and spas move, filter, heat, treat, and return water, and how to reason about the system when conditions change.
- BasicsGuideBLX-FND-003 · v1.3
How Water Moves Through Pools and Spas
A practical guide to suction, pressure, flow, resistance, turnover, surface movement, and the evidence technicians use to understand a pool or spa's active water path.
- BasicsGuideBLX-FND-004 · v1.3
Pool and Spa Filtration Fundamentals
See how cartridge, sand, and D.E. filters capture particles, load over time, change pressure and flow, fail, and interact with cleaning and chemistry.
- Water ChemistryGuideBLX-FND-005 · v1.3
Sanitization, Disinfection, and Oxidation
A practical pool guide to disinfectant residuals, chlorine demand, oxidation, free and combined chlorine, stabilizer, salt systems, bromine, and supplemental treatment.
- Water ChemistryGuideBLX-FND-006 · v1.2
Water Balance and Saturation Fundamentals
A field-first guide to pH, alkalinity, calcium, temperature, salt and TDS, carbonate corrections, saturation indices, scale tendency, and cementitious-surface protection.
- BasicsGuideBLX-FND-007 · v1.3
How Spas and Hot Tubs Differ from Pools
Spas and hot tubs change fast. Learn how small volume, heat, aeration, covers, circulation modes, chemistry, and suction risks alter the work.