Hi Guys,
We bought a PPOR 12 months ago and have not learnt to use the pool equipment thoroughly yet, very time poor.
We've only used it a few times in the past year.
I'm a pretty handy and practical guy, but with no previous experience with pools, it's all very confusing to me.
I am not a chemist, or a biological scientist.
Our pool is tiny, just a plunge pool about 2.4m x 5m, more a water feature than a pool really.
Now this acid and chlorine auto dosing computer thing needs servicing (pool was going very cloudy), as it's not pumping the chemicals properly and I'm looking at $1,300 to refurbish it, or $2,200 to replace it, it's only 6 years old.
The swimming pool guy tells me they last about 5 years, that's a big write off.
If they break down after 12 months, I'll have to pay a massive amount again.
There is a cheaper option which just doses chlorine, no sensors.
With this option, we have to put acid in manually, (granules ok) once a month, I can live with that.
But then there are 3 other products we need to apply to keep the pool in order, some were only every 6 months, so that's ok
Anyway, this whole pool thing is very frustrating to me as it seems to be an ongoing maintenance nightmare, considering we hardly even use the pool.
Been told we have to test the water weekly, even with the auto dosing sensing machine.
If I know all this stuff, I may as well dose it manually if the machine has a limited lifespan anyway.
Does anybody have any website they can recommend which outlines the basics of maintaining a swimming pool.
Looks like I'm going to have to learn this stuff otherwise it will never get fixed.
Any advice or tips for a minimal pool maintenance required would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
We bought a PPOR 12 months ago and have not learnt to use the pool equipment thoroughly yet, very time poor.
We've only used it a few times in the past year.
I'm a pretty handy and practical guy, but with no previous experience with pools, it's all very confusing to me.
I am not a chemist, or a biological scientist.
Our pool is tiny, just a plunge pool about 2.4m x 5m, more a water feature than a pool really.
Now this acid and chlorine auto dosing computer thing needs servicing (pool was going very cloudy), as it's not pumping the chemicals properly and I'm looking at $1,300 to refurbish it, or $2,200 to replace it, it's only 6 years old.
The swimming pool guy tells me they last about 5 years, that's a big write off.
If they break down after 12 months, I'll have to pay a massive amount again.
There is a cheaper option which just doses chlorine, no sensors.
With this option, we have to put acid in manually, (granules ok) once a month, I can live with that.
But then there are 3 other products we need to apply to keep the pool in order, some were only every 6 months, so that's ok
Anyway, this whole pool thing is very frustrating to me as it seems to be an ongoing maintenance nightmare, considering we hardly even use the pool.
Been told we have to test the water weekly, even with the auto dosing sensing machine.
If I know all this stuff, I may as well dose it manually if the machine has a limited lifespan anyway.
Does anybody have any website they can recommend which outlines the basics of maintaining a swimming pool.
Looks like I'm going to have to learn this stuff otherwise it will never get fixed.
Any advice or tips for a minimal pool maintenance required would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks