10 Swimming Pool Tips

By: Annmicha Blugh

Break Studios Contributing Writer

These 10 swimming pool tips will help you keep up the high-maintenance entertainment facilities. Swimming pools requiring your attention and knowledge on water systems, health and equipment. These swimming pool tips urge owners to think carefully on location, swimming pool composition, and water safety procedures. 

  1. Carefully consider location. Exposure to the sun, win, shade and privacy are all factors to be kept in mind since they ultimately affect enjoyability, convenience and cost. 
  2. Putting up signs as warnings. Swimming pools, whether private or public need signs to alert swimmers, bodyguards and spectators on real dangers. Water depth and diving precautions are some useful information to place in swimming pool areas. 
  3. Chlorine. Chlorine is an essential swimming pool tip and a key ingredient in swimming pool maintenance since it kills bacteria and controls algae growth. Swimming pool  owners must beware of putting too much chlorine in the water. Too much chlorine can cause skin rashes and activate allergies. Acceptable, balanced levels of chlorine which would enhance swimming safety are between 1.0 to 3.0 ppm.
  4. Maintaining a regular calendar for swimming pool cleaning. Foreign matter often gets its way in the pool and pipelines, causing blockage and piping impairment. Also the compilation of dirt and hair tends to clog. 
  5. Having pool lifeguards around a pool whether private or public. Pool lifeguards must be closely guarding the swimming pool area to minimize the incidents of accidental drownings. 
  6. Limitations. Swimming pool limitations guide swimmers on activities disallowed on the pool such as games which could end in fatal head, neck and spine problems. 
  7. Swimming pool utilities. Swimming pool pumps, filters, heaters and cleaners are great tools that are used to clean, sanitize and filter the pool water.
  8. Pool covers. Covering a pool especially after the summer season or during suspension of use is a swimming pool tip of which you need to be aware. Arctic Armor  Oval leaf net is an above ground cover for pools, preventing unwanted leaves from falling in. The pool cover is made of a black mesh fabric, cable and winch.
  9. Life saving equipment. Life saving equipment must also be a permanent fixture in the swimming pool environment. Floats, life jackets, a lightweight pole and a lengthy throwing rope are some examples of critical  life savers in case of emergency. 
  10. Pool paints. These paints must be durable and resistent to the erosive power of water and pool chemicals. Pool paints such as epoxy, rubber base and acrylic last between two to ten years and are inexpensive. 
Posted on: Feb. 16, 2011