Pool & Spa Maintenance

A booked visit on the same cycle every week, fortnight or month, so the pool never gets the chance to drift. We work the cycle out with you around the pool, how hard it gets used and the time of year, then keep to it.

Every visit is the same routine. Clean, empty the baskets, backwash, test the water and balance the chemistry, and look over the equipment while we are there. You get told what we found and anything worth keeping an eye on. Chemicals are charged on top of the visit.

• A set cycle, weekly, fortnightly or monthly
• Vacuum, brush and skim
• Every basket emptied, pump baskets included
• Filter backwashed and rinsed
• Water tested and balanced on the day
• Equipment checked while we are there
• A plain account of what we found

The full clean. We vacuum the floor and walls, brush the surfaces down, scoop and skim whatever is floating, empty every basket including the pump baskets, and backwash and rinse the filter.

Then the water is tested and balanced and the equipment gets a look while we are there. This is the visit to book if the pool has been left a few weeks, or before people are going to be in it.

• Full vacuum of the floor and walls
• Walls and steps brushed down
• Surface scooped and skimmed
• Every basket emptied, pump baskets included
• Filter backwashed and rinsed
• Water tested and balanced
• Equipment checked, and what we found explained

The quicker visit between full cleans. We scoop and skim the surface, brush the floor and walls, empty the baskets, clear the skimmer, and check the water with a test kit.

There is no vacuum on this one, which is what makes it quicker. It suits a pool already on a schedule that just needs keeping on top of through the busy months.

• Surface scooped and skimmed
• Floor and walls brushed
• Baskets emptied and skimmer cleared
• Water tested and adjusted
• No vacuum, that is the full valet

Green or cloudy water is almost always a chlorine and filtration problem, not a reason to drain the pool. We test it, work out what is actually wrong, dose it properly and get the filter doing its job.

It usually takes more than one visit. A treatment first, then a clean once the water has cleared and the dead algae has dropped to the floor. We bring the pool back rather than emptying it and starting again, then put it on a schedule so it does not happen twice.

• Water tested and the cause worked out
• Treatment dosed to the pool, not a fixed amount
• Filter checked and run properly
• A return visit to vacuum once it clears
• Chemicals charged on top of the visit

A proper test of the water and the adjustment that goes with it. Chlorine, pH, alkalinity, stabiliser and hardness, so the water is safe to swim in and is not quietly wearing out the surfaces and the equipment.

Water that sits out of balance is what becomes a green pool later, and this is the cheapest thing on this page to put right. You get told what the readings were and what went in.

• Full test of the water on site
• Chemistry adjusted the same visit
• Readings explained in plain terms
• Chemicals charged on top of the visit

Opening the pool for summer, or closing it down for winter. On the way in that is the cover off, a full clean, the water balanced and the equipment tested before anyone gets in. On the way out it is the reverse: cleaned, the chemistry set to hold through the cold months, and the gear checked so it comes through winter.

Booked at the change of season this is a straightforward visit. A pool left to sit all winter is usually a recovery job by October.

• Full clean, inside and at the waterline
• Water balanced for the season ahead
• Equipment run and tested
• Cover on or off
• What to watch until the next visit

Pick this one if you can see something is not right but cannot put a name to it. We come out, look at the pool, test the water, check the gear, and tell you what is going on and what it would take to sort.

Choosing it does not commit you to anything. It is the right option for a pool that came with a house, or one that has been sitting while nobody used it.

• We come out and look at the pool
• Water tested on site
• Equipment checked over
• A plain explanation of what we found
• What it would take to put right