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Maintain the Correct Water Level
Maintaining the right water level is essential for keeping your pool running smoothly, and avoiding breakdowns in key systems. This is especially true for the pump, which can burn out if there's not water to cycle through it. With the summer sun, heat, and frequent pool usage, it's quite easy for water levels to dip during the summer. Fortunately, keeping your pool's water level topped up (usually to around the half-way point of the skimmer for most pools) can help you avoid maintenance issues and ensure that your pool is available all summer long.
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Skim and Vacuum Regularly
Pools have a variety of filters, buckets, and systems to collect debris, but manual cleaning is still essential for just about every pool owner. By putting in a small amount of effort cleaning each day during the summer, you can stay ahead of the debris build-up and help keep your pool running smoothly. The quality of automatic pool-cleaning tools has also risen significantly over the years, with cleaners that will crawl the walls and handle much of the tidying up for you.
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Clean Filters and Clear Collection Baskets
Even if you're very good about skimming and vacuuming, some debris is still sure to get through to the various filters and collection baskets around your pool. You'll want to clean/empty out all of those spaces regularly, to ensure that they can do their jobs and remain in good working order. The most important areas to check are your pool's main filter, and the collection baskets for your skimmers.
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Test for Water Quality
Maintaining the right pH balance is essential to keeping your pool safe, healthy, and enjoyable all summer long. It's especially important for combating algae build-up, which can be difficult to control once it gains a foothold in your pool. Digital pH testing tools make this task quite simple, so it's well worth picking one up for your home. Once you have the right tools, it's simply a matter of keeping up with testing so that you can identify smaller issues before they become big ones.
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Consider Professional Pool Services
Maintaining your pool's chemical balance requires consistent effort and attention throughout the summer. If you live in Southwest Florida part-time or you'd simply like to avoid the time drain of handling pool maintenance yourself, services from a professional pool company can save time and ensure that your pool is in great shape even when you're not available to handle maintenance. Many pool companies offer a variety of service options, from simple openings and closings to full maintenance packages that cover you all summer.
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Create a Schedule for Pool Maintenance
Whether you handle it all yourself or hire a pool company to take care of some of the heavy lifting, creating a regular schedule for pool maintenance makes life much easier. A maintenance checklist can also be very helpful for making sure that you don't forget any of the small yet important tasks that are key to keeping your pool enjoyable all summer long.
