Having a swimming pool in your yard is one priceless possession. Imagine the comforts of having one and enjoy the privacy of using a pool with your family? Its total enjoyment is coupled with the responsibility of maintaining your swimming pool in top condition the year round. The kind of maintenance you are providing for your swimming pool will make the enjoyment of your pool longer as well as providing safety to the place where your family is having fun.

To preserve your pool’s existence longer than its normal life, there are tips to follow to maintain your pool.

1. Conduct regular check on your pool’s water chemistry. This activity must be regularly done two times in a week during summer and once a week during the winter months. In doing this regular check up, you can make small adjustments on; your water chemistry as against doing big chemical adjustment that could ignite a wild up and down graph in activity.

2. Do not allow the pH level to reach above 8.0. If you keep the pH at bay say at 7.5, the chlorine would be between 50-60% active and if at 7.0, the chlorine is about 73% active, while if the ph registers at 8.5, chlorine is only 10% active.

3. Monitor your pools’ alkalinity level between 80-140ppm. If your alkalinity level strays beyond this parameters, your water balance is affected and likewise with your sanitizer’s ability is compromised.

4. Have a regular checkup of Total Dissolved Solids or TDS or calcium hardness. It must be done every six months and calcium hardness every month. TDS and calcium hardness also affect your water balance.

5. Always clean the cells in your salt water systems or chlorine generators. If there is corrosion or calcified cells there would be little chlorine produced.

6. Save water and allow your filter to reach its cleaning potential by reducing your backwashing sand or DE filters frequency. Normally, filters need backwashing when the pressure gauge reaches 8-10psi.

7. Clean your skimmer basket and lint pot in your pool pump regularly. When these baskets are full of debris, the result would be little flow that produces poor circulation which could potentially produce a bigger problem later.

8. Do not add liquid chlorine during the day, do it during the night period and you can maximize its advantages.

9. You have to brush the walls and tiles every now and then. If you keep your tiles clean, you are saving money that could be used on other items and it also eliminates algae problems. If your tiles get calcified, it now becomes a problem that has to be taken off.

10. See to it that the cracks are filled with silicon and you have to prevent the water from inside the pool getting out of the decking.

11. Have the pumps run longer for about one hour for every ten degrees in temperature. You need circulation from the flow as it is the key to your low maintenance for your swimming pool.

12. Replace immediately all broken, missing drains or suction sources as well as defective door or gate closers including fences to prevent untoward accidents within your pool area.

Author Bio: I write for Pool Prodigy about salt water pool maintenance and how to maintain a pool for dummies.

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