As winter ends and the last snow melts away, the warmer air means spring has returned! It’s the perfect opportunity to enjoy outdoor activities, including swimming.
But before you grab your swim trunks and dive in, it’s important to ensure your pool is ready for a new season. It also means it’s the best time to protect your watery oases with new pool covers in San Mateo.
Tips to get your pool ready for swim time in the spring
Taking the time to prepare your pool now ensures a safe, enjoyable, and refreshing experience all spring and summer long. Check out the following essential tips:
- Clean the cover: If you closed your pool during the past winter, remove any debris from the cover before taking it off to avoid letting dirt fall into the water.
- Inspect equipment: Check your pump, filter, heater, and other equipment for damage, and ensure everything works properly.
- Refill the pool: If the water level is low, refill it to the recommended level for safe operation.
- Balance chemicals: Test the water’s pH, chlorine, and alkalinity levels. Adjust the chemicals as needed to achieve the correct balance.
- Shock the pool: Give the pool a shock treatment to kill any lingering bacteria or algae that might have grown over winter.
- Brush and vacuum: Thoroughly clean the pool by brushing the walls and vacuuming the floor to remove dirt and algae.
- Run the filter: To circulate clean water throughout the pool, run the filtration system continuously for at least 24-48 hours.
These steps ensure your pool is clean, safe, and ready for swimming.
Spring is the best time to invest in a new pool cover!
Any time is a good time to install a pool cover. But since spring is the season of new beginnings, it makes the perfect time to refresh and protect your swimming pool with a new cover! It can help you prepare for the season and keep your watery paradise in excellent condition. Here are some compelling reasons to do so:
- Protects from spring debris: As plants bloom, trees shed pollen, flowers, and leaves, which can quickly collect in your pool. A new, well-fitted cover will keep out this debris, reducing your need for extensive cleaning.
- Maintains water quality: Covering the pool when it’s not in use helps keep out debris, insects, and sunlight, which can affect water chemistry. It keeps your pool cleaner and reduces the amount of chlorine and other chemicals needed to maintain balanced water.
- Energy and cost savings: A high-quality cover can help retain heat, so if you’re heating the pool, a cover will reduce energy costs by preventing heat from escaping overnight. It can extend the usability of the pool in early spring and late fall, especially in cooler climates.
- Reduces water evaporation: Covers help minimize water loss due to evaporation, which is especially important in spring as temperatures start to rise. Less water loss means lower water bills and a smaller environmental impact.
- Prevents algae growth: Covers block sunlight, which algae need to grow. Limiting sunlight exposure in spring by using a pool cover allows you to reduce the chance of algae blooms, saving you time and money on algae treatments and cleaning.
- Enhances safety: A safety cover can protect children, pets, and wildlife from accidental falls into the water. Spring often means more time outdoors, and a safety cover gives you peace of mind when the pool is unsupervised.
- Extends pool equipment life: Covers reduce strain on pool filtration and heating systems by keeping out dirt and debris, which can prolong the life of your equipment and reduce maintenance costs over time.
- Prepares for an easy opening: Installing a new cover helps you ensure your pool will be in good condition for summer. When you’re ready to start swimming, you’ll have less work to do to prepare the pool, saving you time and energy.
Investing in a quality cover in the spring helps you get ahead of the season and maintain a cleaner, safer, and more energy-efficient pool.
Pool Covers, Inc. will take care of your pool cover needs
When it comes to choosing and fitting a new cover for your pool, Pool Covers, Inc. offers a wide variety of cover types, mechanisms, fabrics, and colors.
Our manual safety pool covers are available as snap-down pool covers (for regular and irregular-shaped pools) and track manual covers.
- The snap-down manual covers are locked down with accessories that keep the pool cover child-proof.
- Track manual covers, on the other hand, work like automatic pool covers, except they don’t have a motor. They feature a low-profile track installed on both sides of the deck. These covers can be retracted with a hand crank and extended over the pool by pulling a rope tether connected to a handle.
Pool Covers’ Infinity 4000™ safety automatic pool cover system uses state-of-the-art technology. It has the world’s first-ever “flood resistant” feature included in the power options. The automatic pool covers come in both hydraulic and electric mechanisms. Both types provide safety, ease of operation, and convenience. Electricity-run automatic pool covers are generally the easier and more affordable option for smaller pools, while hydraulic pool covers are generally ideal for large or custom-shaped pools.
Pool Covers, Inc.’s products not only meet the ASTM standards – they exceed these standards! With this “seal of approval,” you know that our products provide maximum safety and protection for your pool and your family.
Spring is in full bloom, and what’s a better time to protect your pools with quality new pool covers in San Mateo than now? Pool Covers, Inc.’s products keep your watery oasis in excellent condition and help extend its life, leading to longer and more enjoyable swim sessions throughout the spring and summer.
Call Pool Covers, Inc. at 707-864-6674 or complete our Contact form to discuss your pool cover needs.
