Arizona Pools Under Stress!

Combine the words Arizona and Swimming Pool, and most people think of beautiful, sparkling swimming pools with huge waterfalls, blistering sun, twisting slides, tunes blasting, children bellowing out marco polo, colorful beach balls, Mai Tai’s melting away in the sun, and scantily clad women (or men) splashing around with no worries in the world.   

That’s all true!  Mostly.

What’s 100% true is that our pools take a beating in Arizona!  In order to make the above scenarios come to life, our pools need to look and function their best!  It’s not as easy as it appears!

Being a very busy pool company in Arizona, we get all kinds of calls to try and help our client’s pools. Each pool has it’s own, unique fingerprint.  We’re in a diversified industry located at Ground Zero for demands placed on pools and their equipment.   On any given call, we’ll transform into chemists, plumbers, electricians, laborers, mathematicians, leak detectors, consultants, and now automation programmers!  It’s our responsibility to make sure our pools look and function their best when needed most!   

From January thru December, our pools are being placed under tremendous stress.  Yes… all year long!  It’s critical to the present and future operations of your swimming pool to have it maintained and looked over on weekly schedule.  I always use the comparison to doing laundry.  The longer you ignore it, the longer it’s going to take to get caught up.  Either way, it still needs to be done!  There are no short-cuts!

What makes Arizona (specifically the Phoenix, Tucson, Colorado River areas) so special?  Imagine a 10,000 to gazillion gallon vessel of water designed to hold water so that it doesn’t leak. In 115 degree heat.  With a school of fish (children) swimming. With suntan lotion.  Pee.  Sweat. 100 pound Yellow Labs.  Hard water. The lovely Palo Verde blossoms. Monsoon storms.   You get the picture.

The water that resides in that pool must have  enough flow that it filters correctly.  The PVC pipes, fittings, and connections that contain the water must not leak.  The equipment that takes in and returns the water to the pool must be air-tight and non-problematic.  Once this is all accomplished, you need to make sure the water chemistry can be properly balanced despite our water being soaked with high calcium hardness.

Our pools are running constantly under some sort of pressure being put on the pipes, filters, pumps, chlorinators, heaters, in-floor heads, suction cleaners, spillways, drains, skimmers, and ultimately the entire pool vessel.  A majority of these systems are exposed to direct sunlight, excruciating heat… all the while expanding and contracting each time it turns on and off. Every day for an average of 8 hours.

Now, combine all of this with aging equipment.  Here we are in 2016, and the 20,000+ pools per year that were being built in the mid 1990’s are already over 20 years old!  The landscape, foliage, and trees are also mature and likely hanging right over your pool! From 1.5” suction lines to pebble rolled bond beams, to oversized pumps and undersized filters… our pools need more care than ever.

The point being with all of this is that our pools need “LOVE”.  A pleasing, satisfying experience can be had with any swimming pool.  It takes smart, preventative maintenance to the water and equipment.  Fortunately, recent technology and equipment advances have helped our pools become less problematic and more efficient.  Newer pools with 2.5” suction lines, variable-speed pumps, cartridge filtration, smarter hydraulics, remote control automation, and better cleaning systems have enabled us to achieve greater efficiency, which has allowed the overall stress on a pool to diminish.

If you are having issues with your pool, please contact us at Love Pool Care anytime.  We’ll be more than happy to provide information on how to achieve the pool of your dreams (and not a constant headache).
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