My house has a swimming pool and before I purchased it I could envision fun times with family and friends pool side. However, the pool hadn't had any TLC for about one year. As my boyfriend, Michael, and I begin to clean out the pool, we soon realized it was more like a swamp! Leaves, algae, and frogs had taken the pool over. The smell as we scooped these items out was horrendous! I also learned from a neighbor that some neighborhood kids dumped paint in the pool when the house was vacant. I thought "Awesome, how could this pool situation get any worse!" This added to the challenge of getting the pool clean and prolonging my vision of fun times by the pool. After several days of scooping the pool out, we started shocking it with chlorine. Now we are vaccuuming the pool and cleaning it daily in hopes it will be ready for the 4th of July.
Tiffany
Pools can be a lot of work, but they are a lot of fun for family and friends to come and help create fun memories. I still live at home with my parents and we have a pool, but my dad does most of the work on it. I know he spends a lot of time cleaning so we can all enjoy it. Just stick with the cleaning process. I promise it will pay off in the end.
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ReplyDeleteI know exactly what you are experiencing! We too have a pool in our backyard. They are a lot of work, but so worth it in the end! We go swimming about 5 times a week during the summer! I still live with my parents and we try and take turns with the "pool cleaning" chore. Once you get through this initial first clean it won’t be that bad ever again! Good Luck with the cleaning process!
We originally wanted a house with a pool because we knew we would never bite the bullet and put one in ourselves. Well, our dream home did not have a pool. Be glad it was there so you didn't have to make that choice! You will having it looking great in no time.
ReplyDeleteWe have a pool and it is a lot of work. We bought our first home a little over a year ago and it had a pool. We had no previous experience with the upkeep of a pool but we soon learned that it is a big chore. Chlorine pools are a lot harder and more expensive than salt systems. We love our pool but we hope to one day switch to salt.
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