How A Pool Service Keeps The Sides Of Your Backyard Pool Clean

You probably enjoy lounging in your pool a lot more than you enjoy cleaning it. You may not have time to devote to pool care, or you might not be physically able to care for your pool. Consider hiring a pool service to help. Otherwise, algae may start to grow on the walls and make your water murky.

Your pool service can balance the chemicals, which is essential for controlling algae, and they may recommend an automatic pool cleaner to keep the floor free from debris. The most time-consuming part of cleaning your pool is brushing the sides. A pool service can do that for you too.

Use Good Technique

You'll need a pool brush on a telescopic pole so the brush can reach the bottom of the pool. The pool service may bring a pole with them, but it's good to have your own pool equipment, too. Besides a brush, you'll need a skimmer net. The pool cleaner can use the net to catch leaves and other debris floating in the water before they fall to the floor and possibly leave stains.

A pool service trains its employees on the right technique to use when brushing the sides of the pool. Controlling the brush on the telescopic pool is sometimes challenging, especially in deep water. There are methods for holding the brush at a certain angle that makes it easy to brush the sides and the floor of the pool without a lot of physical effort or risk of falling in the pool.

Brush The Sides Of The Pool

Brushing knocks off algae and the oil ring that forms along the top of the water that comes from tanning products and body oil. Bugs can get caught in the ring and look unsightly. Plus, the oil ring can feel slick if it gets very large.

The cleaner brushes from the top of the water down to the bottom of the wall. This moves all the algae and other fine debris to the floor where it can be removed through the main drain at the bottom of your pool.

The steps of the pool need to be brushed as well as the walls. Then the floor of the pool is brushed to move the debris to the deep end where the main drain is located. The pool cleaner needs to brush down the walls all around the pool. If your pool has a built-in spa, the spa walls need to be brushed down too.

If you don't brush the pool between visits from the pool service, you may need more frequent visits than if you help maintain the pool yourself. You might want the pool service to come weekly to make sure algae stays away. If algae starts to grow, you know your pool needs brushed more often.

For more information about working with a pool service, contact a local company.