7 Reasons to Hire a Pool Maintenance Service
Owning a pool can be a dream come true for many of us. Your own private place to beat the heat, host great summer parties, and create memories with your friends and family. But with the privilege of owning a pool comes the responsibility of maintaining it which can be a big commitment in both time and money.
On the face of it, maintaining a swimming pool seems relatively easy. Skim a net across the water, add some chemicals and the job is done. It seems so simple that new pool owners are often tempted to save a little money and do it themselves before realizing that this DIY approach is almost always a false economy.
Here are 7 Reasons Why you should consider contacting a Professional Pool Service like Clean My Pool for regular pool maintenance.
Save Time
There is no limit to what you can learn online and there is certainly enough information available on pool care across the web. It can be really rewarding to learn new skills and handle tasks that you would usually seek an expert for. However, learning how to properly maintain your pool is completely different from other DIY tasks because of the amount of research that’s involved. It can take hours of your time just learning the basics.
Hiring a professional pool service will not only save you time in researching how to properly care for your pool but consistently save you hours each week that would otherwise have had to be devoted to maintaining your pool.
Regular Pool Cleaning
When a swimming pool and pool equipment and accessories are maintained on a regular basis, it is so much easier to keep the water clean and clear. But this requires both time and effort to consistently follow a weekly cleaning schedule, and weekly maintenance will require much more than just skimming the surface.
Here are a few of the essential services that a Professional Pool Maintenance service like Clean My Pool covers on an average visit:
Cleaning of the pool cover.
Make sure the pool pump to running for an average of 8hr a day.
Scrub all of the pool surfaces.
Cleaning and replacing the weir/skimmer baskets.
Ensuring the chemical balance of the water is perfect.
Removing debris from the bottom of the pool.
Skimming the surface of the water.
Check the filter pressure along with the backwash function if necessary.
Checking the water level and adding more if necessary.
Balancing the Chemical Levels of your Pool
There’s a lot more work that goes into balancing the chemical and pH levels of pool water than just preventing algae growth. If not properly maintained, a pool can become a breeding ground for water-borne bacteria, which can cause harm. This is why the correct chlorine and pH levels form such a crucial part of a healthy pool.
The first step to properly maintain the chemical levels of your pool is to become well-versed in the testing procedure and then how to interpret each test. This testing and retesting can become tedious but is essential to proper pool care. You’ll then need to learn how your pool reacts to different chemicals and how to safely apply them to your pool.
Maintaining the chemical levels of your pool yourself comes with the added responsibility of having to safely store potentially dangerous chemicals on your property. This can be hazardous especially if you have young children or pets.
Here is a list of basic pool chemical checks that we regularly perform on a weekly basis:
Testing and adjusting the chlorine level
Testing and adjusting the salt level (if the pool makes use of a chlorinator)
Testing and adjusting pH level
Testing and adjusting alkalinity
Testing and adjusting oxidizer and stabilizer levels
Adding a preventative dose of algaecide as necessary
Testing and adjusting calcium hardness
Testing and adjusting for phosphates
Testing and adjusting for dissolved metals
Testing cyanuric acid levels (unless stabilized chlorine is used, then test once every two weeks)
Pool Equipment Maintenance
Pool equipment is generally built to be sturdy, durable and reliable, but like any form of machinery does need to be properly looked after for you to get the most out of it. Regular maintenance of pool pumps, filters and other pool accessories is not only vital to preventing equipment from breaking prematurely but can extend the equipment’s overall lifespan thus saving you money in replacements.
A qualified pool technician can spot and fix problems with swimming pool equipment before they have the chance to cause irreparable damage. And repairing a pump rather than replacing it, will always save you money.
Save Money
This may seem counter-intuitive, as maintaining your pool yourself is definitely a way to save money, but having a regular pool cleaning service does actually save you money in the long run. Pools that are regularly maintained by Professional Pool Companies such as Clean My Pool:
Develop fewer problems.
Require fewer repairs.
And keep their monetary value.
Maintain your Swimming Pool’s value
A swimming pool is not only a great investment that you and your family can enjoy but also be an asset when it comes to the value of your home. So risk losing the value of your pool? A well-kept pool will increase your home’s sale value significantly versus a pool that isn’t very well maintained. Hiring a regular pool service will ensure that your swimming pool will stay valuable to you in the long run.
Peace of Mind
Perhaps the most important thing that you get from having a professional pool maintenance company look after your pool is simply knowing that you don’t have to worry. A pool should be a source of fun and relaxation and stressing about chemicals levels, pool cleanup and pool equipment completely defeat’s the purpose of having a pool in the first place.
You can have the perfect pool all the time, and it does not require any effort from you. All you need is the experience of a professional pool cleaning service.
Our skilled pool technicians will do as much or as little as you want them to do. You can choose from our monthly or weekly service to keep your pool maintained all year round.