Time to Drain
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You hire a pool cleaning service, so why do you have to drain your pool? Regular pool cleaning involves skimming, brushing, and vacuuming your pool. However, many times the water you fill your pool with is high in metals or calcium.
6 Top Reason for Draining a Pool
1. The Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) in your pool are to high: When the TDS are to high in your pool water your sanitizer, or chlorine is not able to break through and do its job. This happens after of years of adding chemicals to your pool water, plus dirt and other debris resulting in the eventual rise of total dissolved solids. Once your swimming pool water has a high TDS level and is saturated with contaminants, the best way to handle this is to drain the pool and refill with new water.
Unfortunately replacing some or all of your pool water is the only way to reduce TDS.
2. To Clean Your Pool or Algae Removal: Over time, stains from the metals and calcium in the water can form stains on your pool’s surface. Managing the metal and calcium in your pool water with additives can help prevent stains, but eventually, they will appear.
3. Chemical Rebalance: Maintaining the chemistry of your pool water can feel like an impossible balancing act.
When pool water PH levels are too high, the pool water will be cloudy and leave scaly deposits. If the PH level is too low, pool equipment and surfaces can become corroded.
Too much chlorine causes irritation to swimmers, but too little will allow algae growth.
If you find that your chemical levels are always too high or too low, it may be time to drain your pool and start over balancing your chemicals.
4. Pool Repairs: Unfortunately, your pools surface was not made to last forever, and over time pool with concrete surfaces will break down and begin to crack. Additionally, vinyl lined pool will eventually tear and need to be patched. When this happens, draining a pool is the easiest way to repair these types of damages.
5. Resurfacing your pool: Whether it is because of sun damage and fading, or a pool remodel, you might be considering resurfacing your pool and draining you pool will be the first part of the process.