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SWIMMING POOL TIPS

Pool tips and weekly swimming pool water maintenance. Swimming pool questions answered and problems solved about your above ground, inground, and saltwater pools.

Swimming pool care is easy when you have the right information and swimming pool water maintenance schedule.

Swimming Pool Water Chemistry

This pool water maintenance article will help answer your pool questions and reduce your pool maintenance cost. You need the best information about:

  • Langelier Index

  • Swimming pool algae/green pool water

  • Pink algae

  • Mustard algae

  • How to clean a pool

  • Cloudy pool water

  • Salt water pool maintenance/salt water pool systems

  • Pool maintenance cost

  • Pool filter cleaning

  • Pool water test kits, pool test strips, and spa test strips

  • Pool alkalinity

  • Pool pH

Brush off your swimming pool water testing kit, grab your brush, pool pole and vacuum, and let's have some fun.

Pool Maintenance Tips Made Easy

To maximize your swimming pool care and maintenance, you'll need to perform the following a minimum of 1-2 times per week, regardless if your have an above ground or inground swimming pool. Your spa and Hot Tub are no exception to the swimming pool chemistry rules.

To get the most out of these pool tips and pool water care, stay on top of your swimming pool water chemistry with regards to the swimming pool chlorine

  • pool pH

  • pool alkalinity (TA)

  • calcium hardness (for plaster pools) and

  • cyanuric acid (CYA)

  • Swimming Pool Maintenance Tips

Cyanuric acid is your pool stabilizer and is mainly for outdoor above ground and inground pools. If you have any type of pool chlorine allergy, you may want to invest in a pool ozonator, "no chlorine pool", chlorine free pools, or non chlorine pool shock.

There are many types and sizes of chlorine free pools and natural swimming pools.

 

The Best Swimming Pool Maintenance Tips

  1. Test and maintain your swimming pool chlorine between 1.5-3.5ppm.

    Important Pool Tip - We strongly suggest you get a good Water Testing Kit. A little bit or expense spent now will save you a lot of money in the long run.

  2. Your swimming pool pH should be between 7.6-7.8, not 7.2. You'll use too much acid to keep your pool at this level.

    If you have any kind of pool fountain or waterfall I would suggest using it as you want to keep the water circulating while increasing the pH level,

  3. Test your residual chlorine demand and make the proper adjustments when needed

  4. Total pool alkalinity, or TA, should be between 80-100ppm

  5. Calcium hardness between 150-250ppm.

    This pool tip is mainly for concrete swimming pools and not fiberglass inground pools. If you have a salt water pool system, with one of the many salt water generators (salt cells), keeping your calcium hardness between these levels is even more critical. Too high or low and your cell will burn up, along with the swimming pool heater parts.

  6. Cyanuric acid between 20-40ppm

    An easy pool tip for your cyanuric acid (pool stabilizer) is 7.5% of your free available chlorine. If you keep your chlorine level at 2.5, then just take 2.5 divided by 7.5% and you'll get 33.

  7. Keep an eye on your swimming pool chlorine tabs. Check your floater or chemical feeder. Keep it full of swimming pool chlorine tabs during the Summer months.

    NEVER put pool chlorine tablets in your skimmer. Trichlor pool chlorine tablets contain cyanuric which is a stabilizer for chlorine so keep an eye on this level as well.

    When your swimming pool filter pump turns off the tablets keep dissolving. When the pump turns back on your system will get a highly concentrated dose of acid and chlorinated water that will, over time, wreak havoc on your filtration system.

  8. Once per week empty the skimmer baskets, pump basket, and use a wide-mouth and deep pocket leaf rake to remove leaves, insects and other debris from both the pool surface and the bottom.

  9. Brush the walls and steps weekly and vacuum the bottom when necessary.

    You may want to use your swimming pool vacuum every other week but especially after a windy dust storm. Be sure to backwash your filter after you vacuum or after excessive sweeping of dirt and debris found on the bottom of the pool.

    Begin at the shallow end and work your way down.

    Remember these pool tips and go slowly because the dirt will seem to "fly up".

  10. Backwash once per month or when the pressure is too high, usually about 8-10psi above normal operating pressure.

  11. Only use the water you need to keep your pool at its proper level, about 1/3 to 1/2 up from the bottom of the skimmer. You may want to invest in a automatic water-filler or just keep an eye on the hose while you're topping off the pool.

  12. If you have an automatic pool cleaner, be sure it's in proper working condition. Check with your pool professional if there are signs of wear on your cleaner or it's simply not cleaning properly.