With winter in full force, it’s essential to consider how extreme snowfall can affect your pool. While snow is a beautiful sight, it can also damage your pool, depending on the conditions. If you’re not careful, you could have an expensive repair bill! Here’s what you need to know about protecting your pool from … Continue reading How to Protect Your Pool From Extreme Snowfall
During the winter, it can be easy to forget about taking care of your swimming pool. After all, you’re not able to use it anyway, right? Wrong! Even in the colder months, you should keep a few things in mind when it comes to maintaining your pool. Let’s discuss why upkeep during the winter … Continue reading What You Need to Know About Maintaining Your Pool During the Winter
Do you have a swimming pool? If so, you may wonder if installing a pool well is necessary. The answer is: it depends. Of course, every pool is different, but there are some benefits to installing a pool well before your pool is up and running this spring. Lower Water Bills One of the main … Continue reading The Benefits of Installing a Pool Well
It’s that time of year again – winter is coming! And for many people, that means winterizing their swimming pools. But how does winterizing a pool work? Is it vital? We’re here to answer all your questions about winterizing your swimming pool. We’ll discuss why you should winterize your pool, how to do it properly, … Continue reading How to Winterize Your Swimming Pool
It’s that time of year again – the leaves are changing color, the air is getting colder, and winter is just around the corner. For many Minnesotans, this means it’s time to start thinking about winterizing their pool. Pool owners in warmer states may not understand why we would bother with this process, but there … Continue reading Preparing Your Pool for the Minnesota Winters
Maintaining your pool during the fall season is essential to keep it looking great and functioning correctly for the next swimming season. Here are some tips on cleaning and maintaining your pool during the fall. 1. Keep up with the leaves. Fallen leaves can quickly clog your pool’s filter and look dirty. Be … Continue reading How to Prepare Your Pool for Fall
As the weather cools down, you may be tempted to let your pool sit until next summer. However, a few good reasons you should consider having your collection professionally closed before fall. For one, closing your pool helps to protect it from the winter weather. If you live in an area with harsh winters, … Continue reading Why You Should Consider Having Your Pool Professionally Closed Before Fall
As a pool owner, you are probably wondering how often you should have your pool cleaned. While the frequency of cleaning depends on several factors, including the size and type of pool, the number of swimmers, and the weather conditions, some general guidelines can help you determine how often to have your pool cleaned. Weekly … Continue reading How Often Should Your Pool Be Cleaned?
Do pools need upkeep in the off-season? It is important to do regular maintenance to keep your pool in good shape and prevent costly repairs. Winter temperatures can be cool, but they can still damage your equipment, which means you need to pay attention to your pool’s maintenance. While it is a good idea to … Continue reading Do Pools Need Upkeep in Off-Season?
As Fall comes and goes, the days of enjoying backyard pools have ended. To keep your pool in good shape throughout the off-season, consider these closing tips for backyard pools. Drain Your Pool and Equipment After you’ve cleaned your pool, finish by draining water to around 4-6 inches below the skimmer. Be sure to drain … Continue reading Pool Closing Tips for Fall
When families begin to think of installing a pool, they might question how to go about doing so. Some may think they can tackle a DIY project, as it will end up being a cheaper alternative. However, without help from professional pool contractors, installing a pool can be a disastrous project. Here are the reasons … Continue reading Benefits of Working with a Pool Contractor
Pool opening season is right around the corner, and as exciting as it may be, it is also the time where many people find trouble with their pools. When you begin to open your pool, look out for these common problems. The earlier you catch them, the longer you can enjoy your pool when it … Continue reading Common Pool Opening Issues
Spring is finally upon us, which means we are one step closer to opening up the pools for the summer! Here is a brief checklist you can follow to make sure your pool is ready for summertime. Do A Surface Check The first thing you need to do is look for any cracks or see … Continue reading Spring Pool Prep Checklist
You invest in a pool, you will also want to think of the landscape and patio surrounding it. You want to be able to enjoy your yard even when the pool isn’t ready for the season, right? When considering building a pool, you need to envision what you want the area to look like. We’ve … Continue reading How to Pick the Best Patio Furniture for Your Pool
As the year is wrapping up, we would like to look back and highlight some of the biggest trends in pool and patio design for 2020. Some of these trends are classic, while others are becoming more and more popular. Pool Lounge A pool lounge is a lounging area that is typically a sunken deck … Continue reading The Biggest Pool Trends of 2020
If you’re in the market to install a pool at your home, you might be wondering if there is the best time to do so. In actuality, there isn’t a “best” time of the year, but installing off-season does have its benefits. One of the better seasons to install a pool is, in fact, Fall! … Continue reading Why Fall is the Best Time to Build a Pool
No pool owner wants to wrap the season up, but unfortunately for many of us, it’s time to prepare for the colder months. But even though the swimming season is coming to an end, there is still plenty of work you can be doing off-season. Here’s the top five. Add an algaecide Using an algaecide … Continue reading Off-Season Pool Maintenance Tips
How often have you been excited about using your pool, only to find that the water is suspiciously murky? Sundays Off Pool Service and Repair understands how frustrating it can be when algae sabotages a nice day at the pool, and knows how to restore your water to its clear, clean appearance quickly with algae … Continue reading Swimming Pool Algae: What to Know
Even though you may have maintained your swimming pool regularly, there are a few issues you can’t prevent over a long time. If your pool is a bit old, then it can malfunction and its wall may crack. However, old swimming pools aren’t the only ones that require repair. Even if your pool is fairly … Continue reading Common Reasons Pools Need to Be Repaired
If you’re seriously considering buying a pool, you are likely aware of the many different styles available. But there are two types of swimming pools that are commonly pitted against each other: saltwater and chlorinated. Saltwater pools and systems, as of lately, have become more common. But what exactly is the difference between the two? … Continue reading Saltwater vs. Chlorine Pools
When someone says the words salt and water, the mind probably most often goes to the ocean. It sound strange that people own salt water pools, but they absolutely do. The main difference between salt water pools and traditional pools is how they are sanitized. A traditional pool uses chlorine based products, for example. Whether … Continue reading The Pros and Cons of a Salt Water Pool
If you own a pool and it is the summertime, then you know your days will be filled by fun and frolicking. There is nothing better than a cool dip on a hot day, playing games and sports in the water, or even just lounging by the pool with your favorite cold beverage. That said, … Continue reading What Effect Does Rain Have on Pool Water?
Deciding to have a pool installed is always very exciting. The pool is a place to cool off, enjoy the outdoors with your family, and to even get some exercise. However, you want to make sure that you design the best pool for your situation. That includes not only the type of space you have, … Continue reading How to Choose The Right Pool Material
Human knowledge has developed over the centuries, and we now have a much firmer understanding of chemicals and how they react with each other. Humans had no qualms about drinking dirty water or food and did not connect it with any illnesses they may have gotten. Contamination just was not something that those early humans … Continue reading Why We Need Chlorine For Swimming Pools
Green water might be the bane of every pool owner in history. Other than the pool imploding, green water is probably the most frustrating issue to have to deal with. Everything a pool owner does when maintaining their pool is aimed at preventing the water from turning green. What is it that changes the water … Continue reading What Causes Pools to Turn Green?
