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Technic Maintenance Your Pool
April 18th, 2010 | Author: admin
Owning a swimming pool is a lot of fun, and a lot of work – especially if you don’t follow the proper pool maintenance guidelines. While swimming and lounging in a clean, crystal clear pool is fun, maintaining the pool is anything but joyous.
Arm yourself with the appropriate pool cleaning equipment and necessary chemicals, however, and your pool maintenance will be easier than you ever imagined.
You can find the volume of the pool inside the owner’s manual that was packaged with the pool. Balanced water is clear and clean water, and making sure that the pool water is balanced is accomplished using a test kit. The various chemicals that you will need to add to your pool water under your pool maintenance schedule include:
- Shock treatment – boosts the effectiveness of chlorine and should be part of a weekly pool maintenance schedule.
- Chlorine – used to sanitize the pool water and make it safe for swimming. Chlorine is sold in granule, liquid and tablet form.
- PH increaser/pH decreaser – used to raise or lower the pH level of the pool water as needed.
You may also need other chemicals to eradicate algae and cause a decline in algae growth, and water clarifier for cloudy water.
For proper pool maintenance, you will need to test your water quality with a test kit daily and add chemicals as needed to get the water to an optimal level. Once weekly, brush the sides of the pool with a stiff brush, vacuum the pool, backwash the filter, and top off the pool water if needed.