Hey thep00lguy there's a big twitch streamer doing a series on pool cleaning for fun for his viewers. He's no professional but, he now doing a cleaning for one of his viewers and posting it on youtube. His names loltyler1 it would be awesome if you did a reaction/review video on his vlogs.
I would have thought that a complete draining, scrubbing with soap and water, and then refilling it was needed along with chlorine to prevent the algae from growing back!
Because clean water will just feed the algae. Shock is needed. Have to kill off the bio living in the water, put a glass of water outside in the sun for a few days you’ll see why chemicals are necessary to keep a pool healthy, don’t know where you live but in my country chlorine is even in our drinking water as a sanitizer
This is going to be a bit of a long one, so grab a cup of tea and sit down to read. Emptying a pool can come with some issues. If there is a large amount of ground water around, the pool could begin to float. That could cause pipes to crack or straight up fail entirely. If it floats too high, you'll have a nigthtmare trying to re-set it into the ground. Once a pool has shifted, you have generally got some fairly big problems. It's an even bigger issue if it's a liner pool, as ground water could get under the liner and cause it to have a significant amount of wrinkling and / or float up when the pool is refilled. Plus it makes it far more difficult to remove all of the muck from the pool if you empty it. You have to pressure wash the entire pool to remove the algae, and you have to get that muck out by shoveling it into a bucket and lifting it up over the side to dump it out. Dosing a bunch of chemicals is also likely to be cheaper than emptying the pool and cleaning then refilling the pool. As someone who also works as a pool maintenance engineer, I can confirm that we very rarely empty pools on open ups. This year, I had a pool that was so full of muck that the water was black. This pool is enclosed on 3 sides by trees, and the 4th side has a large bush running alongside the pool. This customers debris cover is totally shot, multiple missing straps and the remaining straps are all frayed. You cannot keep enough tension to keep the cover off the water, so the leaves and muck build up ontop of the cover, pulling it further into the water and allowing the edges to lift up. The customer refuses to pay for a new debris cover, as "this one still works". This trashed debris cover allowed leaves and other muck to enter the pool over the course of the winter months, and by the time the spring open up came around, the pool floor was packed with organic material which I had to net out and try to remove. I got about 20 nets of leaves out, then moved onto vacuuming to waste with my external pump. I proceeded to take out another 15 or so pump baskets of muck. This was just the first visit where I could not see the floor. Over 3 visits, this pool had 50 litres of liquid chlorine, and it was still green. Got her salt chlorinator going on max setting and that finally cleared it up after 2 weeks of running 24 hours a day. Each visit I was getting slightly less muck out than the last, but still a huge amount. Final visit was a regular service visit to check chemical levels and vacuum the pool, and got the remainder of the muck out then. Now we're back on a 2 weekly rota, cleaning this pool every 2 fridays. This pool that I just described is a liner pool that has already had issues with slipping down the stairs if the water level was reduced for winter. If the water level is too low, it allows the liner to slide on the top stair of the pool. Had I emptied this pool, the liner would have to be totally reset into place, which is not easy with an old liner. A lot of the time, it is simply impractical to empty a pool, or simply would cause too many issues. In many cases, it is a much easier job, much faster job and generally a much cheaper job for the customer if we just dose a load of chemicals. Otherwise we would be emptying the pool, spending ages pressure washing and clearing the pool, then refilling with fresh water. That is not cheap. If you look through the p00lguy's channel, you can see how much time and effort goes into cleaning a pool that has been emptied. It's not an easy task, and it's expensive as you'll probably be paying 2 people between half a day and a full day of labour to clean an average sized pool. Between pressure washing, acid washing, and removing the organic matter, you're looking at a significant amount of time to clean a pool that is empty. If I owned a pool, I would much rather spend roughly £100 to £150 on chemicals every spring to get the pool looking good rather than spending £700+ on emptying it, getting it pressure washed and cleaned, then refilled. I see this question a lot on videos of pool open ups, and it is a very good question. I hope this gives you some insight into why pools aren't emptied and refilled for spring.
Watching your videos has helped me to keep on top of maintaining our pool.We have a few stains & I never knew about the stain remover.Will be ordering some tomorrow.Keep up the good work.
Why do the customers never pressure wash the surrounding deck before having the pool cleaned? Surely they don't want the filthy water to get into their nice clean pool?
That's not a pol, it's a rectangular fish pond. Why didn't you drain the water? If you want a completely clean 'pool' then you have to have every inch of it scoured, just like how you said at the end: "There's a little bit if staining still."
I feel like I know why you enjoy your job. I love cleaning the pool. I always end up going in fully clothed just to put the Hoover over the floor. Cold these days is an understatement though. Always around 11 to 15c except the other week when we had that beautiful weather but getting in the cold does actually make you feel great when you warm back up
If you're having trouble with floc working consistently, try to maintain the pH. Floc is quite acidic and the pH needs to be right for it to coagulate the particles
Hi, I’m not sure if you can offer any advice but my family and I are about to start renovating our pool that has been filled in with dirt for about 20 years and I can’t seem to find any guidance for ones that have dirt in them!🤦♀️🤷♀️
In my openion and saggistion for bitter cleaning of swemming pool try to draine all the water of the swemming pool and use a powder soup for the mold and and brush and use a pressure wash for bitter clean juat ma openion and saggistion
How much would you charge for a service like this the pool guy? I am currently doing green to clean services curious in US curious what other rates would be
Next time u clean any slabs around the pool, use chemicals it would look 100 times better because the clean u do is crap also when using acid for your pool clean don't use a water can use a pump sprayer it would spead around a lot better and easier...
Just gonna mention the way you prep the floc might be why it’s not working that well. It likes to be added slowly to slowly agitated water. Only know this cause worked in waster water treatment.
1. Vider la piscine, la nettoyer à l’acide muriatique, la remplir avec de l’eau propre… 2. Laver sous pression le patio autour …. I am an old woman who uses to do the job myself and is successful! Good luck boys!
Someone needs powerwash those dirty tiles otherwise all that dirt will going back in the pool from people's feet. Good job done how many buckets went in that pool I counted at least 5
Maybe not. The ledge around the pool appears to slope upwards towards the pool. With careful use of a pressure washing wand, one just might be able to clean the paving around the pool and direct the debris laden water away from and around the pool and toward and out the gate. Same with pressure washing the wall. The bulk of the paving could probably be cleaned with one of those circular scrubbers. I sure as heck would not want to be walking on that in bare feet ...... or walking on it in my shoes and then walking in my house. The appearance of the paving directly around the pool AND the patio area above is not inviting.
