Hi everyone,
I am at my wits end with pool service companies. I pay for once a week pool service and thought I leave it to them to take care of the chemicals. I am not a pool professional nor claim to be. I would rather pay someone and have the hassle free pool, I thought. But I am quickly finding that I have to followup with the pool company that I hire. By testing the pool water myself and possibly add more chemicals when needed b/c they only come a certain day of the week. Being in FL during the summer, it rains everyday. I am finding out that the PH dips down every time it rains.
This past summer my husband and I found a slight rusty/brown stain around the rim of our pool and spa. We thought nothing of it. Well several months went by and we go into winter when we started using our gas pool heater almost twice a week. The stain got much worse. One weekend morning we woke with our pool walls being basically stained black. We questioned our pool guy at the time what the heck was going on. He said it most likely had to do with something with the heater. Granted this pool guy only does the chemicals and cleaning of our pool. He doesn't do appliance repair or piping repair, etc. We called our pool repair guy. He came out to look at the pool heater and found that a sensor was corroded. Needless to say the pool heater is literally barely a year old. He said this is due to fact that our pool cleaning service is doing the chemicals wrong. I am not happy as the sensor was replaced and the rusty stains continue to happen. After research I found out the PH being out of wack can cause corrosion on pool appliances. I fired my pool guy and hired a new one. Well the stains continue to happen. He has put in metal sequestrant to get rid of the metals. Well the stain keeps coming back. I got pool test strip and my PH is never where it should be. It's way low. The stain turns out to be a copper stain. So I got a copper test strip kit and well it's so high that it's above what the test strip can read. I have started draining my pool every two days and added PH, cleaned the pool filter every other day for the last few days. I am beyond fed up and just think that I am going to go about this myself b/c it seems like the pool needs tender loving care and really looked at everyday. Especially during the summer. I am also thinking I may have to replace my pool heater completely.
I need words of encouragement and should I really get rid of my pool service? I am finding you can't just add the soda ash and trust that the PH is raised to the proper levels in 15mins. My pool guy only stays that long. The soda ash has to be added by the dosage recommended on the package. Let it circulate for an hour and then measure the PH. And then you have to determine if more should be added or if you need to do something else like acid.
I am at my wits end with pool service companies. I pay for once a week pool service and thought I leave it to them to take care of the chemicals. I am not a pool professional nor claim to be. I would rather pay someone and have the hassle free pool, I thought. But I am quickly finding that I have to followup with the pool company that I hire. By testing the pool water myself and possibly add more chemicals when needed b/c they only come a certain day of the week. Being in FL during the summer, it rains everyday. I am finding out that the PH dips down every time it rains.
This past summer my husband and I found a slight rusty/brown stain around the rim of our pool and spa. We thought nothing of it. Well several months went by and we go into winter when we started using our gas pool heater almost twice a week. The stain got much worse. One weekend morning we woke with our pool walls being basically stained black. We questioned our pool guy at the time what the heck was going on. He said it most likely had to do with something with the heater. Granted this pool guy only does the chemicals and cleaning of our pool. He doesn't do appliance repair or piping repair, etc. We called our pool repair guy. He came out to look at the pool heater and found that a sensor was corroded. Needless to say the pool heater is literally barely a year old. He said this is due to fact that our pool cleaning service is doing the chemicals wrong. I am not happy as the sensor was replaced and the rusty stains continue to happen. After research I found out the PH being out of wack can cause corrosion on pool appliances. I fired my pool guy and hired a new one. Well the stains continue to happen. He has put in metal sequestrant to get rid of the metals. Well the stain keeps coming back. I got pool test strip and my PH is never where it should be. It's way low. The stain turns out to be a copper stain. So I got a copper test strip kit and well it's so high that it's above what the test strip can read. I have started draining my pool every two days and added PH, cleaned the pool filter every other day for the last few days. I am beyond fed up and just think that I am going to go about this myself b/c it seems like the pool needs tender loving care and really looked at everyday. Especially during the summer. I am also thinking I may have to replace my pool heater completely.
I need words of encouragement and should I really get rid of my pool service? I am finding you can't just add the soda ash and trust that the PH is raised to the proper levels in 15mins. My pool guy only stays that long. The soda ash has to be added by the dosage recommended on the package. Let it circulate for an hour and then measure the PH. And then you have to determine if more should be added or if you need to do something else like acid.
