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Originally Posted by John_W
I owned two different homes with pools in Pensacola and we didn't even have bird cages. Never had any problem and maintained them myself. Get a barrel of raw chlorine and throw in a couple of cups into the water and shock the pool. You should do that every spring anyway. Get an automated chlorinater if there isn't one already installed on your filter. It will looks something like this.
Then buy a bucket of chlorine tablets and keep it filled. Buy a test kit, you probably got one with the pool. Backwash your pool filter once a week. Check the
skimmer baskets everyday. You can buy a Kreepy Krawler if need for the walls and bottom. Cancel your service with T&D and save money. |
I agree, we maintain our pool and we have no issues. We had hired a pool maintenance company when we finished our pool construction. I verified the pool chemical levels before the guy showed up, just to see how he was going to take care of it, well, he let the PH go when it should have been adjusted, same with all the other levels, when I asked him about he blew me off and said it was fine, and he skipped vacuuming and brushing on many occasions, when he thought we were not home, needless tot say we fired the company. We have a salt water pool with a chlorinator and automatic Muriatic acid dispenser, very easy to maintain. You can take a water sample to the T&D pool store and they will check it for free, I take a sample once a month, just to verify that my readings are the same as there analyzer, and it's been spot on. I do check the chemicals 2-3 times a week, mainly PH and Chlorine, with test strips and also a liquid pool sample kit from Amazon. I check the other chemicals about twice a month, our water is crystal clear. I also enjoy doing the chemistry, my husband does the brushing and vacuuming and changing the filters cleaning the baskets. We went on vacation for a week and let it go, came back everything was fine. We are here full time, if your a snowbird then you have to rely on a pool company, I guess if i had to hire one I'd go with T&D, but I would educate myself on pool chemistry and check in-between.