[chuckster]

Sparkling Waters has maintained our pool for 2 years, excellent service. 85/month. T&D quoted 110.00 for same service. Have also done repairs for us and are licensed contractor.

[samhass]

Sparkling Waters for me!

[John_W]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

I do my own.............no charge. Its not rocket science!

I'm like Bogie, it's not that hard. I lived in Pensacola a few years ago, there we didn't have birdcages. Pools were exposed to a lot more of the elements and creatures out and about. I had a 16X32 pool for two years then sold that house and the next home I had a 18x36 and never had anyone clean or take care of the pool except myself.

You can let a pool sweep do much of the work



If you don't have a pool sweep, then just brush the sides when it looks dirty



Filling tablets or a chlorine cartridge into your automatic chlorinator



Empty your skimmer baskets daily, in Pensacola we didn't have birdcages, you had to fence in your yard. The baskets would get filled with a lot of debris, I had a water moccasin one time, that was a nice suprise.



Taking the net across the pool was necessary when you have no birdcage. The worse was after a hurricane, I had to lift out about 100 green pine cones from the 8' down at the bottom. Another time I had pulled up the net and found a frozen squirrel in the pool.



Backwash your pool filter once a week




Test your water about once a week.



That's all there is to it, took me about 5 to 10 minutes a day, and this was when I worked not retired. Almost forgot, don't forget to feed your pet gator.