DIY Tips
To enjoy water that sparkles, your pool filter needs to be in optimum working condition, here are five tell-tale signs that it’s time to consider replacing your pool filter.
One of the simplest and most reliable ways to maintain healthy pool water throughout the year – especially in the busy summer season – and keep your filtration system clean is to backwash regularly.
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Reduce water during dry spells and drought conditions
Sunscreen, night swims, kids on school holidays and a long, hot summer punctuated by periods of solid rain – Australia’s swimming pools have seen it all over the past few months! If your pool is looking a little lackluster and in need of some TLC, then these handy tips will get it back to its sparkling best. Summer might nearly be over but that doesn’t mean the pool parties have to end!
Plants enhance any pool area by bringing colour, texture, shade and privacy, and softening hard surfaces like concrete pavers and timber decks. However, exposure to long hours of sunlight, heat-intensifying surroundings, water treatment chemicals and salt that come with a poolside habitat can be tough on many species.
With the thermometer in the low 20s for many parts of Australia and a warmer-than-average spring predicted for most of the country*, many of us will want to start enjoying our swimming pool (if you haven't dived in already). And right now is the perfect time to prepare your pool so it’s ready to take advantage of the warmer days – even if you live in the cooler parts of Australia and New Zealand.
With winter well and truly set in, it's safe to say a lot of swimming pools around Australia are looking a little neglected. Prolonged periods of rain in some parts of the country have turned pool water from blue to grey, while mould and mildew is starting to invade pools which haven't been vacuumed since they were last used.