The most important tip for taking care of your own pool...

   I know that reads like spam.... Trust me, I ain't lying. Every year I hear countless stories of people who spend way more on chemicals than they would just paying a pool guy to do it for them (for chem service of course, full service you're paying somebody to do your manual labor for you as well). Then compound the damage and make matters worse, they sell you a bunch of things that they don't need based on a bunch of analysis that they've come to without ever actually seeing your pool. The least amount of trips you make to the pool store, the better.

   If that happens to you then the chances are you are NOT doing the thing that I'm alluding to. Listen, it still can... Anytime you put your own little micro environment in your yard you run that risk.

   It's not a chemical or some item that I'm trying to sell you, I'm not big on sales. In fact it's free. It's free and you don't even need to get it from somebody. You want to know what it is? 

Servicing your pool on the same day every week.

   That's it. The the secret. When you do so, you allow yourself the opportunity to examine what your pool has done in the past week, every week. You can only add so much chlorine to a pool, which is what makes every other week unacceptable. Plus a pool can survive a week without any circulation, getting by on the chemicals from the previous stop.
For the most part a swimming pool cannot last 2 weeks under those same conditions in the spring and summer months. I like to suggest trash day as the day to service your pool, simply because it's easy to remember. Bring the trash in, do the pool... 

   I wanted to give you the option to read the answer here, but for more in-depth answer you can check out my YouTube video that I made on the exact same topic.



Hang in there folks, swim season is just around the corner

   Visit my Google Business page (Ryan Does Pools) to contact me with any questions.Thanks for taking the time to read.

Ryan Hicks
Owner @ Ryan Does Pools 
(916)224-0801


Servicing Pools in Fair Oaks, Citrus Heights, Carmichael and surrounding cities since 2000.

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