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Making pool care mistakes ranks between between tripping over a rake and getting kicked in the tender bits on our personal fun scale. When you own a swimming pool, you have a lot of opportunities to commit pool maintenance blunders, big and small.

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Mistakes, on the other hand, are merely opportunities to learn. Learning how to avoid the most common pool maintenance blunders can help you keep your pool safer, cleaner, and more efficient while reducing the mess and frustration.

  1. Directly injecting shock into the pool water

Pool shock is a chemical that is essentially concentrated chlorine. Chlorine, in high concentrations, can bleach anything that enters your pool. If the concentration is too high, it can turn black clothes pink and white garments yellow.

You can't overshock your pool, so don't be concerned. However, if you have a vinyl liner in your pool, adding shock directly to the water can be disastrous. The shock grains will sink to the bottom of the container and bleach the liner. Leaks occur as the bleached region becomes brittle and weak.

The Alternative

  • Before shocking your pool, dissolve the chemical in a pail of water. This will distribute the shock more equally in the water, safeguarding your liner, pool walls, and pool floor.
  • When it comes to avoiding pool care blunders, remember to "always add chemicals to water, and never water to chemicals."
  • To avoid possibly dangerous splashback, fill the bucket with water first before adding the shock.
  • Warm water will also dissolve the shock more quickly, but it will also produce the awesome-sounding but not-so-awesome chlorine steam.
  1. Failure to Brush Your Pool

You know how vital it is to vacuum your pool on a regular basis to prevent scum and sludge from accumulating and ruining your swim. However, just like your teeth or an Angora rabbit hutch, your pool will benefit from a good brushing to keep it looking its best. Whether you vacuum your pool manually or automatically, make sure to brush it well afterwards.

The Alternative

Grab a pool brush and attack the hard-to-reach regions of your pool, such as:

  • Behind the rungs of ladders
  • Waterline
  • Stairs and steps
  • Crevices and corners
  • Algae and other stinky, gunky intruders are kept at bay by all of this cleaning. Brush your pool once a week, or more frequently if necessary, to keep it healthy and immaculate.
  1. Taking Your pH and Alkalinity Levels For Granted

Be it a the H2OGO! Splashy Speedway Slide you surely need to learn about the necessity of a balanced pH to healthy, happy ecosystems in high school science classes—including your pool. Acidity is indicated by a low pH, while alkalinity is indicated by a high pH. It's bad news if you have too much of either. Your pool water is acidic if the pH is too low. This may appear to be a good thing at first; after all, algae and other invaders struggle to flourish in acidic water. Plus, acidic water glows and looks to be immaculate and clean at first glance. However, as we discovered after eating some terrible sushi at a petrol station, appearances can be deceiving. Low pH levels might actually harm your pool.

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The Alternative

Chemistry can help you live a better life. pH is maintained by balancing acidity and alkalinity. Because anything may quickly skew water chemistry, make sure you test your pool water on a frequent basis.

Then use a pH increaser, an alkalinity increaser, and other important substances to bring your levels back into equilibrium.

  1. Frequently Backwashing Your Pool Filter

Backwashing is not a hidden toddler technique for leaving floaties in your beverage, despite its name. Backwashing your filter's media, whether it's sand or diatomaceous earth, cleans it (D.E.). The funk and filth are washed out of your filter media by pool water, which then exits through the backwash valve drain port. Backwashing is a crucial aspect of basic pool maintenance, but performing too much of it is one of the most common pool management blunders.

The Alternative

Keep an eye on your filtration tank's pressure gauge. Take note of the pressure gauge after you've given your filter a good backwashing. Most of the time, it will read between 10 and 15 pounds per square inch (psi), which is the recommended pressure range for best filter operation.

Now, this may seem counterintuitive, but the more debris your filter captures, the better it will function—up to a point. Extra debris helps retain finer particles, but after the buildup raises your pressure reading to roughly 10 psi above your baseline (i.e., 20 psi–25 psi), the benefits fade. Once that’s done you’ll have a sparkly clean pool , you can even do photoshoots ! Hey, do you want you could use an amazing prop! It’s these super stylish and amazing pool floats by Bestway Dubai.

  1. You Should Run Your Pool Filter System For Less Than Eight Hours Per Day

If your pool's filter isn't operating, it won't be able to accomplish its function. The more frequently you run your pool filter, the less impurities and creatures are likely to cause problems. This is a minor pool maintenance error, but it's still worth your time to check the filter.

The Alternative

At LEAST eight hours a day, run your pool filter and pump. Depending on the size of your pool, this should be enough time for all of the water to travel through the filter and clear the water.

  1. Failing To Test Your Pool Water On A Weekly Basis

Every day, week, month, and year, there are a slew of chores to accomplish when you own a pool. One of the most crucial is your weekly water testing, as it can alert you to minor problems with your pool's water chemistry before they become significant calamities.

The Alternative

At least once a week, test the water in your pool with test strips or a liquid test kit. Then, at least once a month, take a sample of your pool water to your local pool supply store for a full study.

The following are the main levels you should check for:

  • Alkalinity and pH
  • Hardness of calcium
  • Cyanuric acid is a cyanuric acid derivative (chlorine stabilizer)
  • TDS (total dissolved solids) and salt levels

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