Professional pool maintenance - what to expect?
Question:I recently bought my first home with a built-in pool. I have a weekly pool guy coming to maintain it on Mondays. By Thursday, the pool has a greenish color and clarity is reduced. On Monday, he spends about 10 minutes adding chems, a little brushing and netting, and leaves. By Tuesday the water quality is better, Wednesday pretty good, then it goes downhill from through weekend.
Shouldn't the pool be nice and clear for more than a couple of days? I don't have leaves or debris, my filter pump operates daily from noon til 8pm and the robot cleaner works for 2 hours each day.
Answers:
Even without a nice blue hat :rolleyes: you should be getting better service than this.
If the pool doesn't stay crystal clear between visits then he isn't doing his job.
My suggestion is to get rid of him, take a sample of water to your local pool store and have them test it for the following:
Total chlorine
Free chlorine
Combined chlorine
pH
Alkalinity
Hardness
Cyanuric acid
Total dissolved solids
Metals
Phosphates
Don't purchase anything from the store right now, just bring the results back and post them here or email them to me at robandliz1992@yahoo.com and I'll be more than happy to help you get your pool cleared up and on a maintenance schedule that takes less than 20 mintues a day to maintain a crystal clear and health pool all by yourself.
Please include the gallon size of the pool, chemicals you have on hand (ingredients are best but name brands will work too), filtration system type (sand, cartridge, DE), chlorination system (pucks in the skimmer, floating chlorinator, or automatic feeder), and the above readings.
The chemicals you may or may not need are as follows:
Calcium chloride
Chlorine (calcium hypochlorite or sodium hypochlorite.. which I'll explain the difference between)
Baking soda
20 Mule Team Borax
Muriatic acid
Cyanuric acid (Stabilizer)
and polyquat (Algaecide 60 no matter what name brand).
Chemicals alone will cost you less than $200 for the entire season, so you'll start saving money immediately depending on how much your pool guy is charging per month now.
BTW, I don't charge for services or help. just in case you were wondering. I'm just happy to be of help to anyone with pool problems.
Just like everything else in this world. 9 out of 10 workers are
crap, but how do you know ? http://appliancequickfix.com/
has an excellent page on pool water maintenance and even if you decide not to do it yourself, at least you will know what the pool guy should be doing. I bet he does not even have a nice blue hat.
yes it should stay clean for a lot longer try getting a floating chlorine dispenser that u add pucks to.it sounds like u have a crummy pool guy.I only use chlorine pucks and it rarely ever turns green good luck.
I own a 16x32 inground pool and I had a similar problem. I used an algicide to clear up the cloudiness and ran the filter for 24 hours. after that the pool was perfectly clear. I run my filter 8 hours every other day and apply 2 pounds of shock every other week I vacuum the pool once a week and skim as need. Use test strips to check the chlorine, free chlorine, ph balance and alkalinity once or twice a week. The best purchase that I ever made was a automatic clhlorinator that you fill up with 3 inch chlorine tablets. It cost me about $65.00 and is easy to install if you can work with pvc pipe. Floating chlorinators are for above ground pools. E-mail or IM me if you have any other questions. I'll be glad to help!
This guy is not giving you good service. shop around and ask the cont actors what is included in their service and what guarantees come with their service and ask if there is a money back guarantee if not satisfied.
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