How to Maintain Your Swimming Pool and Pool Equipment

All swimming pools and swimming pool equipment need routine maintenance to keep them in good working order and to ensure clean and clear water.

All swimming pools and swimming pool equipment need routine maintenance to keep them in good working order and to ensure clean and clear water. The team from Sunshine Coast’s trusted swimming pool shop and service provider, Billabong Pool Service and Supply, have put together this pool maintenance guide to give you an overview of everything pool maintenance should entail.

The Filtration System

Pool water should circulate round the clock to keep it clean and clear. Stagnant water is the perfect breeding ground for insects, algae, and harmful bacteria. Well-maintained pool pumps and filters effectively combat pool algae or cloudy water. Clean out the filters and skimmer basket at least once a week. Backwash your filter system once a month. 

Cleaning Your Pool: The Dolphin Pool Cleaner

Brushing, skimming, and vacuuming your pool at least once a week can help control the bacteria and algae, as well as remove any debris. Keeping your pool clean significantly impacts how long pool components last. Robotic pool cleaners such as the Dolphin pool cleaner simplify this aspect of pool maintenance. You can program them to vacuum, scrub and polish every part of your pool, including along the water line and steps. 

Water Balance

As a minimum, every pool owner needs to keep the following pool chemicals on hand to ensure hygiene and water balance:

• Chlorine and pool shock
• Test strips/kit to check water balance
• pH balancers to increase and decrease alkalinity and acidity as required.

Other pool chemicals you may need to treat specific issues as part of your overall swimming pool servicing routine includes:

• Clarifiers
• Calcium chloride
• Flocculant
• Algaecides
• UV block out
• Phosphate remover

Maintaining water balance is important, both for hygiene and to prevent corrosion and additional wear and tear of swimming pool equipment. 

Swimming Pool Shop and Servicing on the Sunshine Coast

At Billabong Pool Service and Supply, we have extensive experience providing swimming pool servicing and repairs across the Sunshine Coast. We are an authorised warranty agent for major equipment manufacturers such as Onga, Astral, Davey, Maytronics, Kemfeed, CWC, and Ledecsun.

We have 25 service, support, and delivery vehicles on the road, operating from Maroochydore, Caloundra and Noosaville. Contact us online to arrange servicing or to get advice from our team.