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How To Take Care Of A Salt Water Pool

General Maintenance, Pool Care DIY / By Kenneth

To take care of a salt water pool, you will need to turn your pool’s salt into a self-regenerating supply of chlorine to ensure that your pool maintains the utmost cleanliness at all times. This also ensures that the water has that beautifully soft feel, immersing you in fresh spa water. Salt water pools are more …

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How Does A Pool Sand Filter Work? (Sand vs. Cartridge)

General Maintenance, Pool Care DIY / By Kenneth

Sand filters are one of the most popular ways to keep a pool clean. Not only are sand filters easy to install, but they’re also the most economical and ecologically friendly way to clean a pool. There’s nothing complicated about a sand filter – you simply change the sand when necessary! Thing is, how does …

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How To Change Sand In Pool Filter

General Maintenance, Pool Care DIY / By Kenneth

If you’ve opted to use a sand filter to help keep your pool water clean and safe to swim in, then one of the necessary maintenance requirements that you will need to ensure you’re doing is change out the sand in the filter. Why? Well, the sand’s purpose is to prevent nasty dirt, debris and contaminants …

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How Does A Pool Pump Work?

General Maintenance, Pool Care DIY / By Kenneth

If you look after a pool regularly, you may have picked up a bit of knowledge in the process. After a while, certain tasks become easier, like cleaning away debris or testing chlorine and pH levels. While pool maintenance becomes routine, you may have looked at the pool pump only to realize that you don’t know …

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Can You Shock A Saltwater Pool?

General Maintenance, Pool Care DIY / By Kenneth

If you’re the proud owner of a saltwater pool or you’re currently considering getting one but you’re unsure of how easy it will be to maintain, then one of the biggest questions that you might currently have is whether or not a saltwater pool can be shocked.Even though saltwater pools are typically able to create …

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How To Patch A Pool

General Maintenance, Pool Care DIY / By Kenneth

Regardless of whether your pool has gotten a leak or you simply want to prepare in the event that it does, making sure that you’re well aware of how to patch a pool is one of the most important aspects of pool maintenance – especially if your pool is made of vinyl!As we’re sure you’re …

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How Does A Pool Vacuum Work?

General Maintenance, Pool Care DIY / By Kenneth

Attempting to clean a pool can be a really strenuous task. This is especially the case if you try to do this by hand. Fortunately, you can buy pool vacuums that make life much easier. This is because these vacuum cleaners suck up dirt. There are different kinds of pool vacuums that can make finding …

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How Do I Convert My Pool To Saltwater

General Maintenance, Pool Care DIY / By Kenneth

Whether you’re trying to cut down the number of chemicals used to maintain your pool, or are tired of the toxic fumes that come with a chlorine pool, there are many reasons you might want to convert your pool to saltwater.If you’ve never made this transition before, you might be wondering: How do I convert …

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How To Close An Inground Pool

General Maintenance, Pool Care DIY / By Kenneth

Who doesn’t love the summer? When the sun starts to shine and the temperature starts to rise, it’s the perfect time to take a dip in the pool and spend some quality time with friends or family, or perhaps even as a way to get some exercise in before the busy day begins.That is, until …

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How To Vacuum Above-Ground Pool

General Maintenance, Pool Care DIY / By Kenneth

There are plenty of upkeep responsibilities that come along with being a pool owner!  Just like the way you’ll need to make sure that you’re maintaining your poolwater’s chemical balance and regularly cleaning the filter, another general maintenance chore that you’ll need to make sure you’re keeping on top of is vacuuming.Sure, even though vacuuming …

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