Category Archives: Pool and Spa Maintenance

Pool and Spa Chemicals, Pool and Spa Maintenance, Pool Closing and Winterizing

Check and Balance Your Pool Chemicals

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Pool Chemicals

Making sure that your pool chemicals are balanced during the winter is very important. Chlorine, pH, total alkalinity, calcium hardness, and stabilizer levels should all be checked and regulated so that spring opening is easier. The following levels should be maintained throughout the winter.

Chlorine: 2.0 ppm

  • To raise the chlorine level, you should shock the pool.
  • To lower the chlorine level, you should turn down your chlorinator.

pH: 7.8 ppm (or 7.4 ppm in summer)

  • To raise the pH level, add soda ash.
  • To lower the pH level, add muriatic acid.

Total Alkalinity: 80-100 ppm

  • To raise total alkalinity, add baking soda or sodium bicarbonate
  • To lower total alkalinity, add muriatic acid

Calcium Hardness: 250-500 ppm

  • To raise calcium hardness, add calcium chloride.
  • To lower calcium hardness, drain your pool and refill.

Stabilizer:

  • To raise stabilizer level, add cyanuric acid.
  • To lower stabilizer level, drain your pool and refill.Aquacheck Digital Reader

To test your chemical levels, you can either take a sample of pool water to your local pool retailer or save time and money by testing it yourself. With an Aquachek Digital Reader, you can test your pool water quickly and accurately on your own. It takes only 15 seconds to get a clear and precise reading.

Pool and Spa Chemicals, Pool and Spa Maintenance

Maintaining Balance Through All Kinds of Weather

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Pool Chemical Balance

Did you know that a heavy rain shower can throw the chemicals in your pool water out of balance?  When the amount of water in a pool changes, whether due to heavy rain or evaporation, the balance of pool chemicals must be adjusted to maintain ideal levels.  Here’s why it’s important:Pool Chemicals

  • Ideal levels of pool chemicals prevent dangerous bacteria from thriving in pool water;
  • Water that is chemically out of balance can actually damage parts of a pool;
  • Eyes and skin can become irritated easily when pool chemicals are not balanced.

Testing your pool’s water frequently is highly recommended, and using the appropriate amount of pool chemicals to bring the water back into balance is an important step in keeping the water safe and your pool in good working order.

Pool and Spa Equipment, Pool and Spa Maintenance, Pool Closing and Winterizing

Winterizing? Don’t Forget to Clean That Pool!

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Dirty Pool

Did you know that cleaning your swimming pool is one of the first and most important steps in winterizing it, but it’s often the step that gets overlooked or skipped?  Once swimming season is over, it’s natural to want to spend as little time as possible getting the pool ready for the winter months.  But, shirking the responsibility of cleaning your pool can invite problems.  When leaves, dirt, and other debris are left in a pool for an extended period of time, they can leave unsightly and permanent stains.  Additionally, the effectiveness of your winterizing chemicals is diminished when a pool contains debris.  Automatic Pool Cleaner

Preventing these problems means brushing down the sides and bottom of the pool with a wall brush, letting all that debris settle to the bottom, and then vacuuming it.  Automatic Pool Cleaners make the job of cleaning a bit easier, and there are a wide variety of automatic pool cleaners available for above ground pools and in ground pools.

Taking that little bit of extra time for cleaning your swimming pool when you winterize is well worth the effort.  You’ll enjoy the fruits of your labor when you reveal a clean, stain-free pool after the winter pool cover comes off next season.

Innovative Solutions, Pool and Spa Chemicals, Pool and Spa Maintenance, Pool Closing and Winterizing

Winterizing Chemical Kits Make Pool Closing a Cinch!

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Winterizing Chemical Kit

 

Sometimes, owning a pool can be confusing! Like many pool owners, you are probably looking for easy solutions to answer your pool related questions. One question that many pool owners have been asking lately is “what chemicals do I need to add to my pool to close it for winter?”, and I have the perfect solution to share with you. You can now buy winterizing chemical kits that come premeasured for your pool size! They are the ultimate in hassle free pool closing. Available in chlorine and chlorine-free varieties, you can get them for any pool size. They even come with pool closing instructions. These are so handy that you will wonder why you ever worried with buying individual products.

Environmentally Friendly Ideas, Hot Tubs and Saunas, Pool and Spa Maintenance

A Spa Vacuum That Sucks Debris, Not Energy

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Miracle Spa Vaccum

Maintaining a hot tub in an environmentally friendly way hasn’t always been easy.  Spa vacuums, for example, are most often powered by electricity or by a handful of batteries — either way, they suck up just as much energy as they do debris.  If you want to keep spa maintenance as green as possible, you may want to try the Miracle Spa Vac, which uses a unique siphoning action to clean dirt and debris from hot tubs and spas, rather than relying on batteries, electricity, pumping, or water hook ups to do the work.

The Miracle Spa Vac is a self-contained unit that can lift grit, dirt, beach sand, and even marbles, or pennies into its filter. It has a rugged aluminum pole that can extend up to 7 feet, and the Spa Vac’s clear capture chamber lets you see the debris as it enters the vacuum.  The Miracle Spa Vac can also be used for spot cleaning in swimming pools, which can save you the time and trouble of hauling out the full-sized pool vacuum if all that’s needed is a quick clean up.

Many people believe that any small steps we can take to be more environmentally friendly do, indeed, make a difference.  The Miracle Spa Vac may prove to be one of those small ways that we can do our part, and luckily, it doesn’t require that we give up our beloved hot tubs.