Why You Should Drain Your Pool

The question of why a person should drain their swimming pool is an excellent one. Lots of people are misinformed concerning when this job ought to be done and the reason why it is so significant. Well, bluntly put, the water in this nation (in many places) is absolutely awful.

In many regions October thru February is the perfect time to get your pool drained. In the event you reside here in Arizona, you may have to wait until November or December to get started. This is because the exterior temperature shouldn’t exceed roughly 75 degrees. When the current weather is not too cool, you run the possibility of snapping the surface of your pool. Not a great thing to have to experience, let me tell you.

There are many reasons why you need to be emptying your pool every 2-3 seasons. Among the very significant of them is due to the total dissolved solids build up that occurs with time.

Why, though?
In the summer, temperatures typically reach 100-120 degrees. Together with low humidity and gusty conditions the evaporation speed in your pool can get pretty crazy. Just the H2O dissipates when water evaporates. The total dissolved solids actually stays in that body of water. The pool water is constantly replenished with fresh water by the automatic water fill. So the water that comes in your pool will have a total dissolved solids variable. Hence why your total dissolved solids can rise.

Pretty much everything has a total dissolved solids variable, which leads to the total rise of the total dissolved solids in that body of water. In certain areas of the country climate really isn’t the primary reason for a rise in this, instead it is due to the different pool chemicals being used. Calcium hardness is the principal contributing factor in these types of areas due to use of Sodium and Calcium Hypochlorite.

As the total dissolved solids climbs higher and higher, these issues amplify to a stage where the pool begins to deteriorate.

At elevated rates of total dissolved solids calcium begins to replace the plaster in certain pools. This may end up showing as a circle in the plaster that is about the size of a dime.

The complete maximum satisfactory level for total dissolved solids is about 1500. I would personally rather have it lower than 1200, though. When it gets very high, the water tends to become “non reactive” to whatever you are placing in it (like acid and chlorine).

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