Tips to Help you Efficiently Maintain your Pool this Festive Season
Builders shares two crucial solutions to help you maintain your pool and save money this festive season.
13/12/2022
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Pool owners can attest that although having a
pool is an excellent fixture for home
entertainment, it’s also a commitment,
especially during the hot summer months when
it’s used the most.
However, maintaining
your pool is more than just a chore. Done
properly, it increases the pool’s longevity and
helps with its overall appearance by reducing
unwanted debris and unwanted filter problems. An
added and very welcome advantage to effectively
maintaining your pool is that you avoid pricey
repairs.
Massbuild’s National Buyer for
Pool and Garden Hardware Solutions, Rowen
Armstrong, shares two crucial solutions to help
you maintain your pool and save money this
festive season.
Pool water testing technique
Testing pool water and the chemical balance
guides you on what your pool needs. It helps
prevent unintended consequences such as
over-treating and balances the water's chemicals
to ensure your pool equipment stays in great
shape. Maintaining pool chemicals at ideal
levels also prevents common issues of cloudy
water, bacteria build-up, and surface damage,
which can become very expensive to treat.
It is crucial to test your pool water
regularly, experts suggest at least once a week.
Regular water testing allows you to identify
potential issues earlier and take the required
corrective action. Maintenance is easier and
much more cost-effective when done proactively.
Builders has a pool water analysis
technology in its stores, called Spin Touch,
which allows customers to bring a sample of
their pool water to be tested free of charge.
The machine analyses the water and provides the
customer with a written recommendation of what
needs to be done to get the pool back to its
normal sparkling clean condition. The Spin Touch
technology also provides recommendations on
which products to use depending on what system
you use to maintain your pool.
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Pool covers
According to the Department of Energy’s
energy saver platform, pools can lose water in
several ways, mainly through evaporation. The
evaporation rates of outdoor pools vary
depending on the pool's temperature as well as
environmental elements including air
temperature, humidity and wind speed at the pool
surface level. High summer temperatures means
that the evaporation rate will also be higher
and one of the ways to control and limit this is
through pool covers.
Pool covers have the
potential to minimize evaporation of pools
saving water by up to anything between 50%–70%.
Builders supplies unique thermal pool covers
that are a lightweight solution, used to cover
your pool for seasonal closings and to protect
your pool from temperature extremes and debris.
A thermal pool cover increases the water
retention potential as well as power and
chemical savings. This in turn shrinks the
overall footprint of the pool and reduces
maintenance costs for the pool owner in the long
term by providing more stable water
temperatures.
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The overall benefits of
thermal pool covers are that you conserve water
by reducing the amount of top-up water needed,
they help reduce the pool's chemical consumption
and cleaning time by keeping dirt and other
debris out of the pool. An added benefit is
thermal pool covers will keep the water warmer
for longer making those summer dips just that
much more enjoyable.
Builders offers
complete DIY pool solutions providing customers
with all the essentials they need to effectively
maintain their pools and save on both energy and
water. Having a pool with clear and clean water
will not only look and feel better but will also
be good for the health of your family and
friends.
About Builders
Builders forms part of Massmart Holdings Limited under the registered business name of Massbuild Pty Ltd. With four complementary brands that include Builders Warehouse, Builders Express, Builders Trade Depot and Builders Superstore, these brands offer the largest range of quality products and services for the small to large building and maintenance contractor, home improvement and DIY enthusiast as well as garden or any other DIY related projects. The stores have convenient trading hours and locations and offer the largest range of quality products and services under one roof at competitive prices.
Builders follows the big
box or warehouse retail format and trades out of
stores across South Africa. While Builders
Express caters to homeowners and DIY
enthusiasts. Builders Trade Depot caters mostly
for medium to large-sized contractors and
tradesmen engaged in building, maintenance, and
renovation projects. Builders Superstore is a
newer store format which is aimed at homes in
townships, rural and developing urban areas as
well as small contractors. For more information
go to: https://www.builders.co.za/.