re: Swimming Pool Maintenance

I have a new home with a new salt water pool. I am dong it myself. Get a good Taylor test kit and get a digital salt and PH tester. It is way easier to test those things than doing the chemicals every day

If your pool is New, the pH is going to be hard to keep a control for a while. All the new components in concrete make the pH go up. I am hearing this will last a few months. I text mine about every other day right now and the PH is costly to high.
You're going to need a good supply of muriatic acid to bring the pH and alkalinity down.

I also bought an app, pool doctor, which is very helpful with calculating your chemicals and keeping up with your chemistry. It also saves all your ratings and the dates so if you have some issue with your pool down the road, you can use your data for warranty work.


There are only a few things that you need to be concerned with with the chemistry and honestly now, it's not very hard at all. I've been doing it a few months. You just have to stay on top of it. It's probably more cost-effective just to pay someone 100 bucks a month to do it but they're only going to do it once a week and while it's new, it probably needs a little more attention than that. I will be glad to share with you what I have been doing if you need it.