How to Extend the Life of Your Pool
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Your backyard pool is likely to be one of your home’s most luxurious features, and it’s vital you keep it in the very best condition in order to enjoy its range of benefits.
At Claffey Pools, we regularly help homeowners in Colleyville, Coppell, and Southlake Texas with pool maintenance, and in this article, we’ll outline the best ways to extend the life of your pool so it can be enjoyed for years to come.
What is the average lifespan of a pool?
On average, you can expect a swimming pool to last for around 15 to 25 years depending on the quality of the materials that are used.
However, to ensure it lasts this long and to help extend the lifespan, you should make sure that regular pool maintenance and pool cleaning take place.
How to extend the life of your pool
If you’re looking for ways to extend the life of your pool, there are a number of pool maintenance techniques you should carry out on a regular basis.
These include:
Keep chemicals balanced
Not only is having the right chemical balance in your pool important for hygiene and sanitation, but it can also support the pool’s longevity.
If the pool’s water chemistry is unbalanced, it can cause the pool’s structure to become damaged, with cracks and corrosion more likely to occur.
With this in mind, you should regularly test the water’s chemistry using testing strips.
The optimal chemistry levels for a swimming pool are as follows:
- pH – 7.4-7.6
- Chlorine – 1.0-3.0 ppm
- Alkalinity – 80-120 ppm
- Calcium hardness – 200-400 ppm
If any of your water chemistry falls out of these levels, make sure to adjust it accordingly. You can find a range of chemicals and shock treatments on our online store or contact our weekly cleaning and maintenance department to help balance your water chemistry, do the testing for you, and keep your pool sparkling.
Clean filters
The role of your pool’s filters is vitally important to the overall health of your pool. They keep your water clean and remove any dirt or debris, helping to combat bacteria and maintain hygiene.
Over time, this debris can accumulate in the filter, and leaving it in this state can cause it to become blocked, put pressure on the pool pump, and stop cleaning the pool effectively – all things that can damage a pool in the long term.
Therefore, you should regularly clean the filters to ensure these problems don’t happen. We’d recommend cleaning these filters every three months, or earlier if you spot that the water is getting particularly dirty. Our service department offers our filter maintenance program, and we can take care of this for you!
Regularly inspect the pool
In addition to using chemistry testing strips to check the condition of the water, also use the evidence of your eyes to check the overall condition of the pool’s structure.
This will help you to quickly identify any visible damage that is affecting the pool, giving you time to organize repairs in a timely manner.
Fix problems immediately
If any aspect of your pool has developed a problem or has stopped working, you must seek repairs as soon as possible. This is particularly the case if you spot a leak or notice mechanical issues as problems that are neglected will likely get worse and impact the entire pool – potentially reducing its lifespan. At Claffey Pools we offer a range of pool services that can look after or fix any of your pool’s elements including a dedicated leak detection service.
At Claffey Pools, we can provide your pool with a wide range of pool maintenance services, including pool winterizing to keep equipment protected during the cold, winter months. We also offer weekly maintenance that will see a specialist pool technician visit your property each week and keep an eye out for any problems – addressing them before they get out of hand. For more information, contact our team today.