If you are at all like me, then you know the horror of living through every summer with only your shower to offer a temporary escape from that scorching heat and shoe soil-melting temperatures. While it is nice to have yourself cooled down in the shower, it’s not nearly as good as having your own pool and making use of every commodity that comes with owning a pool. And while owning a pool used to be a luxury only the very richest of us could afford, nowadays, the bar of pool owning, at least the financial bar, the most important one, is being set pretty low, and owning a pool isn’t the mark of elitism that it once was.
But if you do decide that owning a pool is something you would consider working towards, or just outright deciding to build a pool in your backyard, you may encounter unforeseen difficulties, chief of which is pool cleaning and maintaining.
When Does A Pool Need Cleaning?
Depending on the size of the pool, type of water you have in the pool, the fact that the pool may be an outdoors or an indoors one, the time between each cleaning can change. Here are some tips for keeping track of the pollution level in your pool:
- When replacing the filter, take note of the PSI reading when the filter is clean
- It’s probably the time for a cleaning when the pressure inside the pool passes the 10 PSI mark
- When the water inside the pool starts turning green
Thankfully, we live in a time where much of our needs are being solved for us, and there are products such as automatic pool vacuums. Practically every issue with pool maintaining, at least hygiene and cleanliness-wise is solved when using one of these life savers. The benefits of having an automatic pool vacuum range from the obvious ones, such as clean water in your pool, but also low energy consumption, ease of installation and they are safe to use. Sites and blogs like Pool Vacuum HQ offer a lot of very useful tips for these vacuums if you are in the market for one, or just browsing for good quality info.
The process of vacuuming is usually a very simple one. In most of the cases you only need to take off the filter bag, once it gets full, empty it (preferably in the trash), wash it and reattach it, and if you own an automatic vacuum, it can be removed from your pool whenever you want to take a swim. If you decide you want to spend a little more on your vacuum, there are models that also chemically treat the water for you.
There is really no reason to question if owning a pool is worth it today. With the benefits of modern technology and with that technology being so easy to install and use, really the only question left is: “Do you want to go even one more summer without a place to have a dip whenever you want?”.
