On a hot summer day, nothing beats taking a dip in your very own pool. In order to enjoy your pool to the fullest, it’s important to make your pool maintenance routine as thorough as possible. Even though there are many elements to a well-maintained pool, the process doesn’t have to be time-consuming. To help you hit the water sooner, here are some tips to help care for your home pool with summer coming.
Perform Frequent Water Tests
The process to clean and sanitize your pool ultimately has one aim: to maintain the water quality. Therefore, before you do anything else, it’s important that you do frequent water tests. Whether you use test strips or a liquid test kit, the results from these tests will tell you how to proceed and ensure you always have clean and comfortable water to swim in. Though you may not always be able to, the best way to maintain your pool is to perform these tests daily.
Take Care of Your Pump
Unless you have a working pump, you can’t circulate the water in your pool or vacuum your pool, which will quickly cause you water to become dirty and stagnant. Therefore, it’s important to take care of your pool’s pump as best as you can. Make sure your skimmer basket is always in place so that large debris doesn’t end up in the pump. Additionally, if you find that you need pump repairs, make sure to have them completed quickly so that the pump doesn’t burn up.
Keep it Covered
If you can prevent debris from falling into your pool, you will help your chlorine last longer as it will have fewer germs to kill. Plus, you’ll prevent UV rays from the sun from reaching the surface of the water, which also helps to extend the life of your chlorine. Therefore, whenever you’re not using your pool, it’s a good idea to cover it with either a standard or a solar cover. When the cover is not in use, make sure to allow it to dry so that mold doesn’t grow on the cover’s surface.
Keep it Full
Due to evaporation and splashing, your pool is always losing water. Therefore, unless you have an automatic fill pump, you’ll want to work hard to maintain a consistent water level in your pool. Low water levels can cause your pump to suck in air, which can lead to a noisy pump and eventual failure of the pump. As with your water tests, adding water should become part of your daily pool care routine for maximum pool health.
Though the whole point of having a pool is to provide you and your family with a place to relax, these backyard bastions of fun do require some work. If you take your time and do the work properly, your major maintenance will be much easier and much less frequent. Therefore, when it comes to maintaining your pool, take your time, and then get ready to enjoy the outstanding results.
