Save Money by Maintaining Your Own Pool
Maintaining your swimming pool is really quite straightforward and will save you a lot of money. Poor maintenance can mean expensive breakages in equipment and always means you have to spend more on chemicals.
To have a less expensive but not less safe pool, follow the directions carefully especially with swimming pool chemical products.
Good maintenance will prevent problems that are difficult to repair and usually costly. The high cost of professional pool cleaners can be saved with simple good pool maintenance.
Saving on Chemicals?
The chemicals for your pool are not the spot in which to save. Remember:In the long run it will cost more if your pool is unhygienic. You will need a lot of expensive chemicals and procedures to bring your pool back to acceptable levels.
Safety
Be careful if you administer the swimming pool chemical products . They are safe in their diluted form but toxic when concentrated.
Do not combine swimming pool chemical products with any chemical products. A fire or explosion could be the result.
Chlorine
Before adding it to your pool be sure to dissolve granular chlorine in water. Keep all these pool chemicals away from children and remember to add the chlorine to the water not the water to the chlorine. To keep the proper balance and add the chlorine an automatic dispenser is less work. Your chlorine level should be at 1 to 3 parts per million steadily. During the warm weather you can take your pool water to a pool depot every week and have it tested for balance of the ph and alkaline.
Save money with cleaning
The cleaning of your pool is the best spot you can save money. Regularly vacuum the sides and bottom and skim the leaves and debris on the top. IF possible take some time to skim the pool each day. Hygienic tiles, cement and fixtures need brushing. For cement as well as tiles PVC brushes are good even though they cost more because they last a lot longer.
Take Lessons
Classes are available to learn how to use a pool test kit to test ph balance, amount of chlorine, bromide, acid and alkalinity if that is convenient for you, or you can go online to learn correct pool cleaning.
Summary
Habitual cleaning, vacuuming and skimming, filter changing and checking the ph alkaline balance are the main things you can do to save money in the maintenance of your pool.
