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How to maintain a pool? |
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Post# 1035927 , Reply# 3   6/21/2019 at 09:36 (1,768 days old) by parunner58 (Davenport, FL)   |   | |
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Welcome to pool ownership. When we moved to Florida, I wanted a pool but was out voted by my wife and family. Since then we inherited my neighbors pool, they are snowbirds and we became good friends. They gave us a key to the pool and said we can use it whenever we wanted.
It is inground. We use the Clorox pool system. The test strips and app on the phone work great. I still use the red (PH/acid) and yellow (chlorine) test drops to. We have a cartridge filter and have two washable cartridges, so I can do a quick change on them. Your pools worst enemies are Rain, Sun, and pollen. Rain - messes up the chemicals, over fills so the in wall skimmer does not work(have to empty water out), that happens more than having to refill. Sun - sucks the chlorine out of the water. evaporates water out Pollen - makes it turn green really fast. I use the shock and chlorine tablets with algae control all the time. A pool company can teach you how to take care of it. Here in FL a lot of people have pool guys as they are plentiful and cheap. The key to sparkling water is keeping on top of it. I don't know if it is me, but the weeks we use the pool alot, the less maintence i have to do on it. |