How Do You Maintain A Swimming Pool?
Most people would love to have a swimming pool in their backyard in the summer, but few want to deal with the maintenance that comes with having one.It doesn’t have to be that hard, though. Maintaining your pool is easiest when your chemical treatment program and filtration system work together. Here are the basics. Sanitize your pool with a stabilized chlorine product to provide protection against bacteria. These generally come in stick or tablet form and are fed into a distribution container near the pump and filter system. Use an algae preventive or inhibitor to help keep the more than 15,000 kinds of algae from ever getting started. This liquid product is simply poured into the water near the skimmer intake so that the pump system can distribute it to all areas of the pool. Shock your pool on a regular basis – about every two weeks – to get rid of water-soluble bather waste (see “How to Shock a Swimming Pool,” under Related eHows). Find a pool professional or supply dealership that
