Tips to Save you Money in Spring

The easiest way to save money and keep your pool looking and feeling great is to keep it as clean as possible. The cleaner the better, this should be your motto to live by when it comes to you pool. When you keep your pool clean, it causes a chain reaction of events that help prevent you from having to spend more on repairs and chemicals.

Use a Automatic Cleaner
The first key component to keeping your pool clean is use a automatic pool cleaner, this saves you from having to be out there every day cleaning the pool. At the same time a automatic cleaner that has some type of filtration would be even better to help cut down the need for backwashing.

Filtration is Key
Backwashing can also be used to cut down costs, by keeping your water maintained and balanced to allow your filter element to do its job the best it can. If you wanted to save on water and not have to backwash you can change your filter to a cartridge filter (if you don’t have one already). If you do have a sand or DE filter, replacing the sand/DE will help filter the water better as well.

A way to help keep your pool as clean as possible that doesn’t cost anything is cleaning debris from trees or the landscaping with low-tech tool like a skimmer net or rake. This takes the debris out of the pool so the chemicals don’t have to break them down. A solar cover is a great way to help out with this and keep debris out all together as well as make your water retain heat better.

Don't Drain if you don't have to
Lastly, you should not drain your pool unless you have a major water quality problem or you need to make a repair. If it’s clean there is no need to drain it and waste the water. When it comes to your spa, a properly balanced spa only will need to be changed 2 – 3 times a year if you use new water cleaning technology.