SwimRight Pool Serviec & Repair Contractors explain pool care basics

Swimming pool owners in Arizona benefit from the long swimming season — which could potentially last the entire year — this is especially true if you have a swimming pool heater to give the water a bit of warmth during the “winter months.” How to clean an Arizona swimming pool is a question that pool owners — especially those new to pool ownership — ask the swimming pool service contractors from SwimRight Pools regularly. Swimming pool maintenance, to be effective — needs to be consistent and is an almost continual process.

If you use your pool frequently, it will require more frequent pool service calls. Even if you decide not to use your pool for a few weeks, it still requires pool maintenance because algae is simply waiting for a pool that isn’t running the pump or having chlorine added and will set up home in your pool. Once algae takes hold, it is grueling to get rid of and will require frequent visits from your pool contractor and copious amounts of chlorine and for the pool pump to be run almost continuously untl the water is clear.

How to clean an Arizona swimming pool

Here are steps we take to keep Arizona pools clean:

• Run the pool pump to keep the water clean. This occurs because the pump is circulating it for purification, and then back into the pool again. Ask us how long your pool pump should be run on a daily basis — it varies with individual pools.
• No matter what type of filter your pool has: sand, cartridge or  diatomaceous earth (DE)they all work on the same basic model. The filters trap dirt and debris.
• Purchase a water test kit from us. We will show you how to use it, interpret the results and what chemicals to add to get the water chemistry right.
• Swimming pools will need to be “shocked” on occasion. This means we will super-chlorinating it by adding massive amounts of chlorine. Shocking addresses cloudy water and kills any algae spores.

You will want to skim off any debris floating in the pool before it sinks to the bottom. Using a pool cover makes pool maintenance quicker and easier.