Get the Best Maintenance for Your Salt Water Pool

Want to provide a professional maintenance service for your salt water pool? At Esmeralda Construction Inc., we offer the best pool services. With this detailed blog, you will learn to maintain your pool like a pro.

Complete Guide for a Salt Water Pool Maintenance

You might think that salt water pool maintenance is a challenging task. With this complete, safe, and fast cleaning guide, you will have instant cleaning without putting to much effort.

If you love to cool off, swim and spend time in the water, you may have suffered the inevitable effects of chlorine used to disinfect. Irritated eyes, as well as dry skin and hair are the most common.

In addition, if you have your own pool, you’re probably also fed up with storing and handling large drums of this product, the handling of which carries certain risks.

So if this year you want to save yourself the hassle without giving up the advantages of having a pool, we offer you a perfect solution to avoid it: convert yours into a saltwater pool. With this article we will provide you the best tips and tricks to take a perfect care of it.

The Proper Maintenance For Salt Water Pool Maintenance

In a standard pool, chlorine is poured directly into the pool water. A simpler and safer alternative has been created. Salt chlorination is a natural and more convenient method of sanitation. Dilute the salt in the pool. The system converts it into just the right amount of chlorine for cleaner, clearer, and luxuriously soft water.

Cleaning a salty pool will require daily, weekly, and monthly cleaning tasks.

Daily Task

Get into the habit of cleaning your filters and your pool regularly, which can save you time and money.

Since your pool is saltwater, don’t forget to clean the skimmer and empty the pump basket. If you see any visible residue, remember to remove it. Try to be as thorough as possible with these daily tasks to make your weekly and monthly tasks more manageable. As a result, you will get a more thorough pool cleaning.

Weekly Task

For weekly tasks, the pH and free chlorine of your saltwater pool should be checked. The test strips or kits that you can buy for this purpose are very useful tools that will make the task easier.

The regular free chlorine level is 1 to 3 ppm, while the pH should be between 7.2 and 7.6. Regulate your generator if the chlorine level is not correct.  On the other hand, regarding the pH level of your pool, it is possible to use sodium bicarbonate to raise it or sodium carbonate or muriatic acid to lower it.

Monthly Task for Salt Water Pool Maintenance

There are 4 things to check for monthly tasks: salinity, alkalinity, stabilizer, and calcium.

The salinity of your pool needs to be between 2700 and 4500 ppm. Check with your owner’s manual to ensure that there may be slight variations depending on your pool model. If your generator does not have on ,you can use a salt meter.

As far as alkalinity is concerned, the most appropriate levels are 80 and 120 ppm. Reamarking, that you can use baking soda to raise it or muriatic acid to lower it.

Cyanuric acid, or CYA, is considered the ideal stabilizer for saltwater pools and should be between 70 and 80 ppm. On the other hand, calcium hardness should be between 200 and 400 ppm of calcium to prevent scaling and corrosion.

By following these fantastic tips and guide, pool maintenance won’t be difficult anymore. As a result, you will have great overcomes and easy and fast maintenance.

Important Tips

For a better maintenance, you can use the following tips and become a witness of a complete and healthy, clean pool.

Clean Debris from the Pool on a Daily basis

Especially, when the pool is outdoors. It is convenient to remove, on a daily basis, leaves and insects that have fallen into the water, or in the skimmers.

To help you and have a more professional and fast cleaning, you may use a vacuum cleaner to clean effectively.

This process of cleaning a saltwater pool should be done at least about twice a week. To do this, you can connect a handheld vacuum cleaner to the skimmer and get a suction machine.

Also, you can use a mechanized suction machine, which cleans the debris and dirt from the pool automatically.

Cleaning the Pump and Filter

This type of cleaning, of a saltwater pool, allows to avoid obstructions caused by debris, being advisable to clean the pump, the skimmer, and the filter, at least, once a week.

Control the Temperature of the Water

This control is essential to make sure that the sodium hypochlorite is produced, being necessary that the water is at 15 degrees centigrade.

Chlorine Protectors

The chlorine protectors are very useful products, which facilitate the cleaning of a salt water pool, helping to maintain the correct state of the chlorine that is generated by electrolysis.

By following these good tips and hacks for your salt water pool, you will see a good transformation. As a result, you will have to spend less time on your pool since it will be easier to clean it.

Get Professional Assistance

With the guide of salt water pool maintenance on hand, you can start this task.

For outstanding results and excellent maintenance, you can call us, and you will receive 100% of professionalism in all of our services.

At Esmeralda Construction Inc, we are specialists in integral cleaning services, and we will provide you with the necessary solutions for the cleaning of your saltwater pool, using the most effective cleaning techniques.

If you need more information about our services, you can contact us.

We will be more than happy to attend to your needs, and concerns and help you to enjoy your saltwater pool.