Pool service and maintenance
Any pool – from a small “home” to a huge public one – requires regular care and maintenance. What does pool maintenance include and what measures should be taken to ensure that the pool is always pleasing to the eye, clean and safe?
A pool is a complex system and requires comprehensive care. At the same time, the need for service is not related to size, any pool requires regular care. Some believe that maintaining a pool at home, a fitness club or a recreation center is limited to maintaining basic cleanliness and occasionally cleaning it of visible debris. However, this is far from the case. Pool water is partly a “living organism”, it is in constant interaction with the environment, and also affects the people who use the pool.
In order for the process of using the pool to be enjoyable and not harmful, the water in it must be not only transparent, but also hygienically impeccable. From the first day of putting the pool into operation, various contaminants inevitably enter the water from the environment, including pathogenic microorganisms that can cause various diseases. Water and air temperature, solar radiation, precipitation, the presence of an artificial current, hydromassage installation or waterfall in the pool, the intensity of pool use – all this affects the quality of the water. Thus, timely service maintenance of the pool in accordance with standards becomes the main condition for its safe and comfortable use. This is not a one-time action, but a regular process regulated by the features of operation. Pool maintenance includes daily, weekly and monthly cycles. Each cycle consists of several stages, the number of which depends on the purpose and set of equipment of each particular pool.Gallery
The basis of service is:
- checking the operation of the pool’s technical systems
- prompt detection and elimination of malfunctions
- water quality control
- preventing the appearance of dirt and mineral deposits in the pool bowl
It is impossible to carry out the necessary work without special experience, equipment and chemicals for swimming pools. Taking care of a swimming pool is beyond the power of an untrained person – it is a complex process that requires regularity, a competent approach, compliance with safety precautions, as well as knowledge of the requirements of regulatory documents. Therefore, you cannot save on pool maintenance – it is easier and cheaper to entrust this matter to professionals than to spend money on complex and expensive repairs later and look for a specialist who will undertake such repairs. Stages of swimming pool maintenance. A specialist from a service company conducts diagnostics, assesses the scope of work and offers the customer the optimal maintenance plan for this pool. The service engineer must check the availability and serviceability of all elements of the technological scheme of water treatment of the pool (pumps, filters, water heating systems and its additional disinfection with ultraviolet or ozone, chemical dosing units), as well as the correct connection of the building’s engineering communications (water supply, sewage, electrical and heating networks) to the corresponding networks of the pool. The presence of a grounding circuit, temperature and humidity in the premises, a change in the color of the inter-tile joint in the far corner of the pool and much more are not left without the attention of the specialist. Of course, the specialist will check the pH level and the content of disinfectant in the pool water, and if there are specific complaints from the customer about the quality of the water, he will recommend additional analyzes that must be performed in a specialized laboratory.
