Is Your Swimming Pool Ready for Spring?

Spring, it is getting closer beleive it or not. Which means it is time to start getting those pools ready. Now that your pool cleaner has taken a beating with fall and the cold temperatures, its time to repair, rebuild or posibly replace.

We see many home owners take their swimming pool automatic cleaners into a shop to have them worked on, but in all honesty, having worked on them for many years they are rather simplistic to work on. So if you have a handy bone in your body, before you take your pool cleaner to a shop, take a look at it your self. For example, one of the most popular pool cleaners is the Polaris 380. Your wearable parts that should be checked out regularly are your tail scrubber, wear rings on the tail, and tires. After that, check for leaks in the swivel connectors on the hose (small amounts of dripping is normal). One the head unit, when you spin one wheel, all three wheels should turn at the same time. If this is not the case, typically one or both of the belts are broken. Finally just a quick inspection of the belts to verify there is no fraying. Checking the bearings is as simple as checking for space within the bearing keeper and wobble. Typically if 4 or more bearings need to be replaced it is recommended to replace all of them.

It may sound complicated but it is not. One concept to remember is that just because you replace the broken parts, watch for items that may be worn that might be causing other items to break. A good example for this is gear driven pool cleaners. Unlike the belt driven Polaris 380, the gear driven Polaris 180 and 280 are notoriously for this. The teeth on the wheel of the Polaris 180/280 may be torn off or flattened, but what could have caused that is the teeth on the drive shaft may be worn down causing this. One step further, is the drive shaft bearings are loose, then they could be causing both problems. This may sound confusing but in the end they are simple machines.

Don't forget Swim Clear Pool Supply has all your swimming pool cleaner parts needs from all the top brands like Hayward, Polaris, Jandy and Pentair. More swimming pool help tips to come from your swimming pool help blog.

Swim Clear Pool Service Expands

Swim Clear Pool Service is pleased to announce we are now servicing the Garland, Rockwall, Rowlett areas of North Dallas. So if you are in those areas and are in need of swimming pool service visit our web site and check us out.

As always if you are in need of quality swimming pool products you can always go to www.swimclearpoolsupply.com no matter where you live.

Price Does Matter!!!

During these economic times, everyone wants to get a fair price on the goods and services that they need. Swim Clear Pool Supply prides itself on delivering quality name brand pool supplies at a great price to you the customer. Our parts and items by such name brand companies as Polaris, Hayward, Pentair, Sta-Rite, and the likes, means you are getting well established company products at a price that it near other big-name online companies or even better. Here are a few of Swim Clear Pool Supplies products, and how they compare with prices of other online big-name companies:

- ----------------Swim Clear -Leslie's Pool Supply -Water Wharehouse

POL Tail Scrubber ------$ 3.99 -----$ 5.89 ---------$ 7.53


POL Sweep Tail ---------$ 24.99 ----$ 25.99 -------$ 39.50

2 H.P. Motor ------------$369.99 ----$389.99 -----Do Not Sell

48 S.F. D.E. Grid Full ---$ 23.99----- $ 33.99 --------$ 29.47

Zodiac Duo Clear Salt
System (45,000 Gal) --$1,599.99 ---$1,729.99----- Do Not Sell

Rainbow 320 Inline
Chlorinator -------------$ 78.99----- $ 79.99 --------$ 101.99


As you can see by some of these examples, Swim Clear Pool Supply offers you, the customer, quality name brand products at a price you know will meet and even beat some of the top name online pool supply companies in the market today.

Snow Storm Breaks Records in Dallas

Wow, can you believe this winter? 12 - 13 inchs of snow fall in parts of Dallas and surrounding. So, besides the obvious possible freeze damage to the pool equipment, what does all this snow and rain mean to your swimming pool.

Frist, be glad it is during the winter when algae grows the slowest rather than summer. Ultimatly, there is no more to do with your pool when it snows than when it rains. After the amount of snow fall we had in Dallas, it is a good idea to shock the swimming pool with a non-chlorine shock. (The use of non-chlorine shock is reccommended so that the chlorine level is not raised.) Other than that, enjoy the snow, build a snowman and stay warm.

Tips brought to you by Swim Clear Pool Supply.

Pool Care in Winter

Can you believe it is already February and that means believe it or not, Spring and Summer are right around the corner. That's right Swimming pool season. Since we are not there yet, whether the swimming pool is covered, not covered, winterized or not it is still important to check on it.

During the cold winter months pool water tends to stay clear with very little help. Generally algae does not appear and hardly ever do you see a pool turn green. Any algae growth that does occur is extremely slow. Even with that said though, if yo have ever had that Spring time algae bloom you should have learned looks can be deceiving.

So keep testing your swimming pool water chemistry.

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