Of course, the simplest solution to opening a swimming pool for the season is to hire Carlton Pools who provide excellent service. But if you’re up for it, you can do it yourself.
Perhaps one of the most-overlooked steps in getting your swimming pool ready for the season is addressing the area surrounding your pool. Clean up plant debris from the pool deck, patio, nearby planting beds – virtually anything that has the potential for producing debris in your pool. Make sure you prune trees and bushes that have grown in recent months and might hang over your pool. Some plants shed their flowers in the summertime, which can end up in your pool. Try planting mess-free shrubs and trees to go around your swimming pool so you limit the time that you are pulling debris out of the pool with a net.
If you’ve got some sort of smelly science experiment involving leaves and “stuff” that’s accumulated in the seven months or so since you winterized your swimming pool, you may just want to call Carlton Pools to come get your pool ready. Yuck! Who wants to clean up that mess? It can be done though. If the accumulated gunk on your pool cover is in liquid form, and you don’t want to hire it out, use a cover pump or rent a submersible pump to remove the murky water existing on top of the cover.
Consider yourself lucky if you have dried debris on your cover. This can be removed by sweeping it, followed by a quick spray of the hose or pressure. The real cleaning will happen after you remove the cover.
Once you remove the cover, you are in for quite a bit of work from unplugging holes that were plugged for the winter, checking for cracks, cleaning the pump and possibly replacing worn parts, putting lights back in if they were removed or replacing cracked lights if needed. This can be a lot of work so gear up if you’re attempting it yourself, otherwise, just call Carlton Pools.
Written by: Phillip Thow