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04
Apr 21
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Pool Cleaning: The Easy Approach that Does the Job Better

When the hot weather rolls in, swimming pool owners smile the widest. Especially when theirs is clean and healthy.

But maintaining a pool isn’t easy. It is so much work to keep the water healthy and pool tiles clean. But is it, really?

In this article we’ll show you simpler way to keep your pool healthy without resorting to the crazy strategies that overcomplicate the activity.

How to Maintain Your Pool Easily

Through regular maintenance of your pool, you can prolong its life and the life of its equipment.

And when we talk about maintenance, it is mostly the simple routine cleaning and maintenance done regularly that means the most for the swimming pool’s health.

It is advisable to clean the waterline of all impurities at least once a week. A tedious job, and sometimes long depending on the size of the pool, but effective in ensuring the cleanliness of the pool. To do this, you can use a specific product, an anti-lime product or a degreaser, and rub with a sponge.

It is recommended to use a vacuum cleaning broom or a swimming pool robot to clean the bottom of the pool, at least once a week.

You must regularly empty the baskets of the skimmers, otherwise known as surface skimmers, to avoid their clogging and clogging of the walls.

As a general rule, it is advisable to monitor the water level. The surface of the water should be two-thirds of the skimmer. Underneath, there is a risk of air intake and damage to the pump. Above, the cleaning of the water turns out to be imperfect.

How to Keep Your Pool Water Clean and Healthy

Cleaning your pool also means maintaining the water. It must be clear, balanced, disinfected, and disinfectant.

You can very simply clean the surface of the water using a dip net to remove large debris. To be repeated at least once a week.

The quality of the water also depends on the use of chlorinated or anti-algae products. To do this, you have six options: chlorine, bromine, active oxygen, PHMB, ultraviolet, and salt electrolysis.

It is advisable to regularly analyze the pool water, and more precisely the level of pH and disinfectant present in the water. Then you must correct the water accordingly, either by adding a cleaning product or by reducing its quantity.

Note: a pH below 7 can be harmful to the skin.

Why You Should Always Clean Your Pool

It is imperative to clean your swimming pool for several reasons:

Benefit from clear water and preserve its quality from any external pollution;
Guard against any premature wear of coatings such as liner, concrete, or tiles;
Maintain water that is always clean, healthy, and suitable for swimming.

Cleaning your pool after winter is also essential. Above ground pool, in-ground pool, wood, or plastic, all need cleaning.

A swimming pool enclosure, a winter cover, or a pool cover limits the cleaning of the pool, however, the pool and the liner are not immune to the appearance of a water line and suicidal insects!

Protecting your swimming pool from the elements is one thing, believing that this eliminates the need for cleaning with a high-pressure washer is a little too optimistic!

Pool maintenance must be regular to be effective. If you are not there or do not have the energy necessary to maintain your pool, contact a pool specialist near you. Most of them provide maintenance contracts.

And when your pool tiles and wall get overgrown with lime deposits and calcium deposits, call the Calcium Killers to help you get rid of those ugly white deposits on your pool tiles.

28
Mar 21
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Pool Cleaning: A Smarter, Better Approach

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How do you clean your pool? Do you carry out a simple series of basic tasks and call it a day?

Even though you can skate by with that approach to pool cleaning in the short term, there’s a day you’ll pay the price — and you won’t like it.

I’ve got a better approach for you. Here me out: It won’t be harder than what you’re already doing and certainly not take more time.

It’s just a smarter way to clean your pool, get better long-term results, and protect your pool from becoming harmful.

How to Clean Your Pool Better and Smarter

1. Clean the edge of the pool

Cleaning the edge of the pool is a tedious task that is often postponed. However, we recommend that you regularly clean the edge of your pool.

You will thus eliminate the lime at the height of the water line. If you put off this task over and over, you will have a hard time removing the scale deposit.

Therefore, take the time to meticulously clean the edge of your pool on a regular basis. You will thus obtain an impeccable water line, without the slightest trace of lime on the interior coating.

2. Add a flocculant

When using the same water for a long time, some concentrations may increase. Too high concentrations of calcium, iron, copper, etc. can cause problems and even cause the appearance of brown spots in the pool. To avoid this inconvenience, a flocculant should be used.

This product precipitates all the impurities and makes them fall to the bottom of the swimming pool. All you have to do is vacuum to remove them from the pool. All you have to do is place the flocculant sachets in the skimmers. Through filtration, the product spreads into the water and takes effect.

This product also makes it possible to obtain perfectly clear water. It is therefore in your best interest to follow this advice.

3. Vacuum the pool

Small impurities precipitated by means of the flocculant must then be removed with a swimming pool vacuum cleaner. There are dozens of models.

Manual vacuum cleaners are relatively inexpensive, although there are also different price categories here. Our general finding is that a more expensive vacuum cleaner, like the Fairlocks, provides more efficient and significantly faster cleaning than a cheaper model.

But cleaning a swimming pool with a manual vacuum cleaner is very laborious and time consuming. The ideal alternative is the robotic pool cleaner. In this case, the vacuum does all the work for you.

The purchase price is higher than that of a manual vacuum cleaner. But one thing is certain: a robot makes your job much easier and limits the number of products you need to maintain your pool.

4. Remove the leaves

The leaves have a bad influence on the quality of the water since they absorb a lot of chlorine. It is therefore essential to remove them using a landing net.

Don’t forget to empty the skimmer baskets regularly. These are indeed often filled with leaves.

5. Clean the roller shutter

Many impurities clump together on the surface of the roller shutter and inside it. To remove these impurities and preserve the appearance of your roller shutter, you should take the time to clean the shutter completely.

An effective product is Roldeck descaling agent. With the help of a good sponge, you can clean the roller shutter in the blink of an eye. It is not recommended to bathe directly after cleaning. It is better to wait until the product is fully assimilated. So wait a short day before going into the water.

6. Perform a backwash

The backwash (or backwash) of the swimming pool filter is an essential task. Without backwash, your filter can indeed become clogged. Under the most extreme conditions, it could even explode.

To avoid this inconvenience, the solution could not be simpler: perform a backwash once a week in order to permanently remove the impurities from the filter. This will prevent an increase in pressure inside the filter.

7. Add fresh water regularly

Our last tip should only apply a few times a year. Adding new water to the pool reduces certain concentrations of salts and metals, such as chlorides, iron, copper, etc.

These concentrations must be reduced in order to guarantee good disinfection of the swimming pool water. In addition, high concentrations of metals can cause brown spots to appear in the pool.

To avoid this inconvenience, add 3 to 5% of the total water volume in your pool at least 3 times a year. Warning: do not use well water in particular. This indeed contains too high concentrations of these metals. You could therefore make the situation worse.

Do you have more questions about cleaning your pool? Please do not hesitate to contact us.

28
Feb 21
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Step by Step Process to Clean Pollen from Pool Water

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Pollen settling on the surface of your pool water can make your pool look like something from a zombie apocalypse movie. Let’s take a look at what you can do to get rid of it.

The most important thing at this stage is to understand the following points. It is not very difficult to get rid of, as long as you work on it a little every day, during the periods when the pollen is abundant.

1. Operate your filtration

Most of the time, it is not necessary to run your filter 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. But when you have a pollen problem, the filtration system is your best defense in removing it from the surface of the water.

If necessary, put it on forced and continuous, the time to skim the surface. This may not be enough, but it is the first instinct to adopt.

As the pollen deposit is subjected to the sandstones of the wind, it may also be necessary to temporarily modify the direction of the water jet from the discharge nozzles. The idea here is to reach the dead zones of the basin to force the pollens to go towards the skimmers.

Do not forget to open the skimmer valves to 100% and the bottom drain to 50% if there are bottom deposits.

This will greatly reduce the amount of manual labor required to rid the pool of this pollen.

Of course, throughout this phase, check the state of the pressure of the filter (manometer) and the amount of waste in the baskets of the skimmers or the pump pre-filter. Clean them as soon as they are too dirty.

2. Skim the water regularly

Every morning (and maybe the afternoon too), take a very fine-meshed landing net and put it in the water to collect the pollen that has accumulated overnight.

Unfortunately, you will have to repeat this process more than once a day during periods of high pollen distribution.

Remember that an ordinary landing net is generally not as effective as its mesh/braiding is often too large to trap pollen.

At a minimum, you have to push as much pollen as possible into the water flow that goes from the delivery nozzles to the skimmers. Without forgetting to clean the water line if necessary.

3. Aluminum sulphate

Some pollens are simply too small to be captured by a dip net. They will even pass through the filtration system and return to the pool.

To get rid of this type of pollen, you can add aluminum sulfate to your water. It has the effect of clumping the pollens together to form a thicker substrate.

The filter and the landing net can thus capture them more easily. The landing net allowing them to be completely removed from the filtration circuit.

4. Shock the pool

When fighting pollen, it’s a good idea to shock the pool at night, before going to bed.

It will kill whatever has made your pool a good place to call home, because of the pollen floating around in the water.

With the filtration working continuously overnight (if you leave it running – recommended) or restarting it the next morning, you will be able to more easily remove whatever is left in the water.

5. Vacuum if necessary

Sometimes simple surface skimming and continuous filtration are not enough. If the pollen is particularly heavy in your area, you may need to vacuum the pool manually.

Do this as a last resort and only if necessary, so as not to consume water and electricity unnecessarily.

21
Feb 21
0

How to Keep Your Pool Clean and Healthy with Chlorine

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Keeping your pool clean and healthy should be the entire point of regular pool maintenance. And that pool that looks so great week in and out, is an absolute delight to the pool owner.

The most common solution to achieve this is a regular treatment of the pool water to remove lime and debris.

However, the wrong dosage of cleaning products can lead to the accumulation of several layers of limestone on the walls and in the pool’s bottom. To remove this debris, you need to understand everything that can make them appear.

The Importance of Chlorine for the Pool

Chlorine is the first choice for maintaining healthy pool water. Chlorine has been used for years in swimming pools around the world.

It is a highly reactive chemical that reacts with all kinds of biological impurities in water.

If these organic impurities are not treated with care, bacteria can develop algae or even a bio-film.

What Happens if a Swimming Pool is not Well-balanced?

If the pool water has a high calcium hardness or other debris, this can cause technical problems. Like fouling or lime in the pipes and in the pool itself.

As a result, the maintenance and cleaning of the pool will increase. If the supply water is very hard, large amounts of lime can deposit on the sides of the pool.

Even if there is only a little calcium carbonate in the water, and following an unbalanced addition of chlorine and PH, lime will form at the level of the evaporation line of the water as well as on the pool walls. These lime deposits at the edge of the pool are often difficult to remove and involve manual work.

Water Filtration Rings: Less Effort, Less Cost

Compared to the maintenance consequences described above, the solutions seem incredibly simple.

The main configuration of a swimming pool is always the same. There is a filter system, a pump, and maybe a heating element, that’s all.

In accordance with the size of the pool, you must install a ring at the freshwater supply line and another ring in the circulation line. In the case of a large public swimming pool, install in the circulation line of each swimming pool, to get the same results in all swimming pools.

What’s the result?

In case of calcium hardness, the ring keeps the dissolved calcium in the pool water, which will have a more fluid texture. Over time, the pool water will be much softer, despite the calcium.

Less crust will form on the evaporation line. And limestone debris will be much easier to remove. When you use these filters and rings, you are also fighting the growth of algae in the pool.

Many owners have stopped using chemicals since the installation of these rings.

No chlorine or other pool chemicals. Without having problems with water quality.

I would not recommend such a thing for a public pool. If countless visitors use this pool, the risk would be too great. I am sure the regulatory authorities would not agree.

However, it is preferable to use these rings even for public swimming pools in order to reduce maintenance costs for protecting pipes or walls of the swimming pool. By doing this, you will need a lot less chlorine to disinfect the water than before while maintaining the same quality of water.

31
Jan 21
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Aboveground Pool Washing and Maintenance: Step-by-step Guide

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To have unparalleled bathing comfort throughout this summer, your above ground pool needs to be cleaned regularly. Simple actions, a little equipment, a little time and you make sure to keep the water clean and the equipment efficient.

Treatment and filtration products help clean water from impurities and keep it clean. However, dirt is also deposited in the bottom, on the walls and in the equipment, which is why it is necessary to clean your swimming pool regularly.

Step by step cleaning

1. Remove debris from the surface of the water

Using a landing net, remove any debris floating on the surface of the water, blown by the wind: insects, plants and others.

Redo this as soon as debris is present on the pool water.

2. Empty the baskets

If your pool contains a skimmer, empty the basket which contains large debris such as insects and plants.

Check the skimmer regularly and empty the basket if it contains debris.

The filtration of your pool is initiated by a pump. It has a transparent cover in order to control the pre-filter basket which may contain debris passed through the skimmer. As well as the skimmer basket, empty the pump basket when it is not in operation.

Check the pump regularly and empty the basket if it contains debris.

Be sure to increase the frequency of checks during the high season.

3. Vacuum the bottom and sides

Once a week, clean the bottom and sides. This can be done using a manual or automatic vacuum cleaner, or an automatic robot, both connected to the filtration. Be careful to have a pump powerful enough to connect a vacuum cleaner or a robot.

Clean the debris from the bottom of the pool once a week using a vacuum cleaner or robot. If, before the season, the pool is used less, reduce the frequency of cleaning.

4. Clean the water line

Dirt clings and the water line becomes greasy, which is why it is important to clean it once a week, before or after vacuuming the basin. The water line is cleaned manually using special sponges. Note that some automatic robots make the waterline.

5. Wash the filter

Sand filter

Wash the sand from the sand filter once a month when the pool is not used a lot to once a week in high season. To know when to wash the filter, look on the manometer (if your filter has one), if the needle is in the red, you must backwash the filter.

Regularly check the pressure gauge and backwash when the filter is not in the filtration phase.

Cartridge filter

In high season, the filter cartridge must be changed every 2 to 3 weeks. For regular filter maintenance, clean the filter cartridge with clean water twice a week.

Follow this advice and you will enjoy your above ground pool even better this summer. Plus, it is a healthy way to maintain your pool cleanliness..

If you need professional help with cleaning your pool…

Here at the specialty aquatic tile cleaning, we offer a wide range of pool cleaning services! I will first start off by telling you that a clean pool is a lot more enjoyable. When your pool is clean and everything is right, you can expect to swim with your eyes open and not worry!

Pool Tile Cleaning and Replacement

When you get your pool tile repaired or replaced by us, you can expect everything to look as good as new. We can help you if they’re discolored as well!

Pool Makeover Special

Another service that we offer as well would be our pool makeover special. If your pool hasn’t received the care and attention that it requires you can probably start to notice some discoloration going on. How we address this issue is first we have to completely drain the pool, followed by an acid wash to clean the plaster, and then lastly calcium removal on the tiles. But just like any other job, it all depends on the pool size!

Power Washing

The third most popular service that we offer would be power washing. When we power wash you can expect to have your deck completely clear of any old dirt marks. This is usually what people get as well as the pool makeover. These both go together really well, leaving your backyard as you could remember it years ago.

Many pool owners know that owning a pool can be difficult at first and very irritating. So why go through all of the problems that arise with pool owners when you could have a trusted company like specialty aquatic tile cleaning take care of it for you!

Here at specialty aquatic tile cleaning, we charge by the linear foot. In some cases very rarely though, it is by the square foot. Our goal is to satisfy our customers and demolish the competition. We offer free estimates to anyone within 35 miles of us. So why are you waiting?

Pick up the phone and call 626-275-8959 and get your free estimate!

Why Should You Work With a Pool Maintenance Professional?

There are several reasons why you should hire a professional to take care of your pool.

The first and most important reason is to maintain the chemical integrity of your pool water.

Chemically treating a swimming pool can be very frustrating for pool owners, at least if you want to maintain a level of quality!

In fact, this is a big reason why people prefer a professional review of their pool, as it can be confusing for someone who doesn’t know what they are doing.

Most importantly, your swimming pool is a breeding ground for nasty little organisms. Proper chemical treatment can effectively treat water and ensure the health and well-being of your family.

The next big reason for hiring a pool maintenance professional is to properly maintain the pool equipment. Most owners are not good at mechanically and are a little intimidated by the pool equipment.

In addition, there are a large number of moving parts and if anything moved, it could drastically affect the normal operation of your pool and its filtration process.

A pool maintenance professional will not only keep your pool running smoothly, but will also use preventative maintenance techniques to save you time and money.

The last and most important reason to hire professionals is to enjoy your pool!

Pick up the phone and call 626-275-8959 and get your free estimate! Proudly taking care of Covina CA and all of its pool owners! Feel free to also give us a call with any other questions or concerns regarding your pool!

24
Jan 21
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How to Instantly Get Rid of the Annoying Whitish Calcium Deposits on your Pool Tiles

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Have you noticed some greyish white scales in your pool? Or some discoloration right around the water line in your pool? Or even some crusty deposits in the corner of your pool?

If yes, those are calcium deposits.

They can be a major eyesore and make your pool unattractive to swim in. What worse, they’re absolutely difficult to clean… if you don’t know the right way to do it.

In this blog post, we will show you the age-long insider secrets that professional pool cleaners use to get rid of the annoying calcium deposits in swimming pools.

Natural stone that had a heavy build up of calcium

How to Remove the White Crusty Calcium Deposit from your Pool Tiles and Make them Look Good as New

This must be one of the many questions on the mind of a pool owner.

I would be giving 5 ways on how to remove calcium deposits from your pool.

1. Use a calcium releaser

These products makes it easy to remove calcium deposits. While selecting your product, select acid free calcium releasers, as these products are left a long time on your pool tile before scrubbing off, and the acid could destroy your pool finish.

2. Use scaling treatment

If your pool is made of fiber glass, scaling treatment is advised because other methods would scratch the glass since they involve brushing.

3. Use a pumice

This rock is also effective in removing calcium deposits in pools, make sure the surface of both the rock and the pool is wet, and do not scrub too hard in order not to deface your pool.

4. Use white vinegar and a scrub brush

Fill a water bottle spray with half water and half vinegar solution, spray on your pool tile and leave for some minutes before rubbing gently with a scrub brush.

5. Use muriatic acid

This is also known as Hydrochloric acid, this acid has high strength in removing mineral deposits, calcium deposits inclusive.While using it, you should be fully clothed with your google and gloves in order to avoid safety hazards. Make sure not to leave the acid too long because you do not want to destroy the finish of your pool.

Bottomline

You can always try:

Calcium deposits are caused by an imbalance between the calcium levels and the Ph of your pool.Before we go into removing these calcium deposits, to prevent future deposits you might want to do the following:

Try reducing evaporation in your pool, by installing a pool cover, because when water evaporates, calcium becomes concentrated.
Try draining your pool and lowering the PH of the new water. This is done so if the pool is exposed to sunlight, there won’t be an imbalance between the PH and the calcium level.

Calcium deposits in pools can have side effects on people who use the pool, these effects can range from eye irritation to whole body irritation, they are also irritating to look at and would reduce the interest of people in your pool.

When removing these deposits, make sure you are dressed properly to avoid safety hazards and also try as much as possible not to destroy the finish of your pool.

With this guide, we are sure you will bring your pool to its former glory.

15
Jan 21
0

Few Easy Things to Do Every Weekend to Maintain a Healthy Pool

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Do you want your pool waters to remain clean, sparkling, and healthy?

There are two MAIN things you should do every weekend to make that happen — and they’re easy.

It’s easy to ignore your pool, but it gets hard when the water changes to green.

Avoid this by incorporating a healthy routine to keep your pool always clean. That way each swim is refreshing and not harmful for your skin.

Pool Maintenance Tips to Get Rid of Calcium Deposits

This must be one of the many questions on the mind of a pool owner. And here I will be giving 5 ways on how to remove calcium deposits from your pool! And not only will it look better, but it will also allow you to enjoy your pool like you once did!

1. Use a calcium releaser

These products make it easy to remove calcium deposits. While selecting your product, select acid-free calcium releasers, as these products are left a long time on your pool tile before scrubbing off, and the acid could destroy your pool finish.

2. Use scaling treatment

If your pool is made of fiberglass, scaling treatment is advised because other methods would scratch the glass since they involve brushing.

3. Use a pumice

This rock is also effective in removing calcium deposits in pools, make sure the surface of both the rock and the pool is wet, and do not scrub too hard in order not to deface your pool.

4. Use white vinegar and a scrub brush

Fill a water bottle spray with half water and half vinegar solution, spray on your pool tile and leave for some minutes before rubbing gently with a scrub brush.

5. Use muriatic acid

This is also known as Hydrochloric acid, this acid has high strength in removing mineral deposits, calcium deposits inclusive. While using it, you should be fully clothed with your google and gloves in order to avoid safety hazards. Make sure not to leave the acid too long because you do not want to destroy the finish of your pool.

Pool Cleaning Tips for General Pool Health

You often do the same when it comes to cleaning your pool. In doing so, you limit cleaning your pool to a series of standard tasks.

While this does not pose any problem in the short term, we nevertheless recommend that you regularly perform the following tasks when cleaning your pool.