How To Take Care Of A Pool Step By Step

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From https://www.swimmingpoolsteve.com/pages/new-pool-owners.html - this video is a long form educational video to help swimming pool owners take over the day to day care and maintenance of their pool. Everything from pump and filter maintenance to a complete breakdown of the chemical protocols for balancing your swimming pool chemistry is included in this video. Taking care of your own pool is not impossible but it will take some commitment to learning about difference aspects of your pool, pool chemistry etc. but with some effort you very shortly can be on cruise control with your daily / weekly swimming pool maintenance. It is not a lot of work once you get over the learning curve...plus you don't need to learn everything about all pools - just your one swimming pool. Definitely something you can do if you set your mind to it (and watch this video)! 00:00 - Take care of your own pool introduction 02:52 - Savings potential taking care of your pool 04:30 - Maintaining a relationship with a pool professional 05:45 - Pride of ownership in your swimming pool 07:15 - Self promotion of Swimming Pool Steve 07:57 - Swimming pool filtration system overview 08:56 - Swimming pool pumps 09:40 - How to find information you need to care for your pool 10:50 - Pump leaking water 11:30 - Identifying your pool filter 11:55 - 3 different kinds of pool filters 13:50 - Clean operational pressure for your pool 15:00 - Verifying the pressure gauge is working 15:40 - Normal pressures for swimming pool systems 16:17 - When do you need to clean the filter 18:00 - Peripheral pool equipment like heaters and salt chlorinators 21:25 - Making sense of your plumbing system 22:45 - Ideal water level in swimming pools 23:30 - Pool pump losing prime 24:30 - Pools with no skimmers 25:00 - Infinity edge, negative edge, knife edge and vanishing edge pools 26:10 - How much water should a pool lose to evaporation? 26:46 - The bucket test for water loss in your pool 28:00 - Bucket test step two (pump on versus pump off) 28:55 - Reducing evaporation with solar pool cover blankets 30:30 - Taking better care of your pool than the company you paid to do it 31:15 - Brushing, scooping leaves and vacuuming your pool 33:30 - Pool vacuum types (suction, pressure and robotic) 34:45 - Emptying strainer baskets (skimmers and pumps) 35:30 - Danger emptying skimmer baskets 37:05 - How to turn off pump and clean pump strainer basket 37:47 - Priming the pool pump 39:05 - Swimming pool chemistry fundamentals 40:40 - How to adjust pool water chemistry values 41:25 - Why bother balancing the water chemistry 45:00 - A note on safety and pool chemicals 46:00 - How much work does it take to maintain the chemistry? 47:37 - Pool chemistry values 48:05 - Chlorine levels (free and total chlorine) 48:57 - pH and Total alkalinity levels 49:28 - Calcium hardness levels 50:00 - Phosphate levels 51:12 - Cyanuric acid / stabilizer levels 53:00 - Stabilized versus unstabilized chlorine sources 54:45 - Common pool chemistry corrections 55:50 - Order of corrections for pool chemicals 56:55 - Pool chemicals you do not interact with often 57:22 - Free chlorine versus total chlorine explained 58:30 - Combined chlorine buildup 59:15 - Breakpoint chlorination to remove combined chlorine 01:01:28 - Deficiencies visible in the pool 01:02:30 - Conclusion and self endorsement for https://www.swimmingpoolsteve.com PLEASE LIKE & SUBSCRIBE! #poolmaintenance #swimmingpoolgoals #swimmingpoolsteve