Swimming pool maintenance doesn’t have to be overwhelming to new owners. All that is needed is a little common sense…and maybe the internet. When in doubt about a situation involving your pool, don’t going barreling forward, step back and think a minute. Or better yet, with all that our phones can do nowadays, go the old fashioned route and call someone, or connect with the internet and search for answer.
Don’t be like the new pool owner who called me one day. he led off the conversation with “I know just enough to be dangerous.” Unfortunately, I had to agree with him after he explained that in an attempt to clean his inground vinyl liner he had drained his pool for a couple of days, and now he wanted to know how to stretch his liner back in place. I had to tell him you can’t and that his only fix was a new liner. A phone call or internet search would have informed him that vinyl liners, above or inground, shrink when completely drained.
If this customer had used common sense he would have saved himself the cost of a new liner and lost swimming time.
This post was written by
karen – who has written 2 posts on Legendary Escapes: Builder of Gunite|Vinyl|Hybrid| Swimming Pools in Michigan and home of Ask the Pool Guy - Al Curtis.
Karen is our concrete sculpture artist, and tile and coping specialist. She bring the detail of the installation of those intricate pieces together. You’ll find Karen on the construction crew at pivotal moments during the projects, and on service of tile and coping renovations for gunite pool projects. She’s worked with the pool guy for years, and together they have created the waterfalls, retaining walls, and unique elements that are what make Legendary Escapes exceptional.
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