How often should my pool water chemistry be tested in my pool?

Pool Mighty Clean customers should test the water and make adjustments NO LESS than once a week (the more often, the better). The sanitizer in a swimming pool makes it safe for the swimmers, the pH and other chemical balances keep the pool system in good shape

 

My pool is cloudy, what do I do to fix it?

Swimming Pool water clarity is dependent on two things: the effectiveness of the filter and the chemical balance in the pool. The pool’s filter provides 85% of the water clarity and the chemicals used to treat a pool add the other 15%. Chemicals or filters alone cannot keep a pool clear. If the filter media is old it may need replacing. If the pool ‘balance’ is wrong it needs fixing. The problem usually associated with a cloudy pool is a filter media filter. A D.E. filter may need a manual cleaning, a sand filter may need backwashing or replacement of the sand, a cartridge filter usually requires replacement of the cartridges. If the pool water chemistry is okay, it’s time to perform maintenance on the filter. 

 

When should I backwash my filter?

The industry standard for backwashing your Pool Filter is when the filter gauge shows a pressure that is ten pounds higher than a ‘clean’ pressure. Pool filters work by forcing dirty pool water through a porous media which traps the larger particles from the pool water. When the sand filter media is clean, the pool water passes easily through and the pool filter gauge pressure is lower. As swimming pool debris is caught in the media it is harder to push the pool water through the pool filter which makes the gauge pressure higher. When enough pool debris is in the pool filter to clog it up by ten pounds, it’s time to backwash the swimming pool sand filer.