| By taking advantage of a few easy swimming pool
maintenance tips, you can easily make yourself the most profitable
customer your local pool business has ever seen.
1. Don't clean your pool! A
dirty pool is an expensive pool (expensive for you, profitable for your
local pool business). The more you let your pool go, the more it will
cost to get things back together again. Do you see leaves in there? By
all means, let them sit. Are random foreign objects floating around in
your pool? Sure, let them stay. Anything that doesn't belong in the
pool, it shouldn't cause any problems, right? Likewise, it's a waste of
time to be brushing your pool… especially the dead spots where algae is
likely to grow. Your pool company will love you, knowing that you'll
need to be buying algaecide, shock, and possibly other products to
clean up a mess. Your pool business would love for you to let your pool
go.
2. Never empty your skimmer or
pump baskets. Those baskets are meant to permanently store all the
debris that they catch. That's what baskets are for, right? Storage! It
would be a far greater hassle to empty that skimmer basket every few
days, as opposed to letting it break and having to buy a new one (at
$15 a pop) with great regularity. Not only that, but it's good for your
pool to be choking on the water circulation. Forcing your pump to work
harder only makes it stronger, right? No pain, no gain. When your
skimmer basket breaks, letting debris get through, let that same junk
sit in your pump basket for a while. You can break two baskets with
only one load of debris! After your pump basket breaks, that's when the
real excitement begins. You'll have all sorts of chunks flying through
the rest of the pump, and being forced into the filter. Hoorah! All the
equipment is getting some exercise now! Hopefully something will break,
which will further ingratiate you with your favorite pool place. After
all, cleaning out those baskets is far more trouble than it's worth,
right?
3. If you see algae, brush it
and hope it goes away. It's a well-known fact that scrubbing algae
kills it, as opposed to the nonsense of using concentrated chlorine on
it. After all, even though algae was actually growing in the pool,
there still should be enough chlorine in the pool to kill that stuff.
The idea of actually shocking the pool wouldn't make any sense then,
would it? By all means, wipe away the algae and then continue on your
merry way. It's not like it will come back, right? Your pool company
would much rather you waited until your algae becomes a significant
problem, and growing everywhere before you take an interest in treating
it. So do your pool business a favor and wait until there's algae
everywhere before you decide to do anything about it.
4. Buy all your chemicals in as
small amount as humanly possible. If you need some shock or chlorine
sticks, make sure you get them in the smallest container available. You
want to avoid those larger containers like the plague. Not only are
those larger containers of the dreaded economical type, and not only do
they cost you less per pound, but they will keep you from being
required to regularly visit your favorite pool business.
Keep in mind, these
tips are only useful if you want to be as financially supportive as
possible to your local pool company. If you'd rather save money, or
spend it on something other than your pool, you would do best to ignore
all this advice, or even do the opposite.
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Michael Dinger has worked in a pool
supply business and can easily recall the silliness actual
pool owners have done.
© M. Dinger LoMist Publishing 2006
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