You can use a pair of garden secateurs or scythe to cut the water plants back but make sure you remove all the cuttings to prevent nutrients getting back into the water.
Friday, 29 October 2010
Pool maintenance - looking after your pool
As the swimming season comes to a close and the water plants start to die back it's time to give the natural pool a tidy up. This involves easy tasks that anyone can do over a couple of days. The main jobs are cutting back the plant foliage to below water line, and giving the swimming area floor a vacuum.
You can use a pair of garden secateurs or scythe to cut the water plants back but make sure you remove all the cuttings to prevent nutrients getting back into the water.
The pool vacuum is a specialist piece of equipment for cleaning natural swimming pools, here is a photo of the pool floor being cleaned. Unlike a chlorine pool you only need to do this task 2 or 3 times a year, once in Spring, then Mid Summer and finally at the end of the season.
You can use a pair of garden secateurs or scythe to cut the water plants back but make sure you remove all the cuttings to prevent nutrients getting back into the water.
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Az pool care mentioned that you can place catfishes on your natural pool for a "natural" pool maintenance? Or was it a janitor fish? Either way, natural pools look awesome. I wish we can have one here.
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