Why You Need Your Pool Builder to be a Teacher

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Once you’ve decided to have a swimming pool built, you start to be bombarded with the many decisions you will need to make your swimming pool. When you select the swimming pool vendor right for you, remember that they need to be teachers.

Why The Details Should Matter to You

Your pool builder could take care of all the little options and decisions, and just inform you afterward, and you wouldn’t need to know anything about how your swimming pool was built. But after your swimming pool is ready to use, you aren’t just going to enjoy it: now you’ll have to maintain it. And it’s likely at some point you will need to have something repaired. You need to know what to look for that signals a problem with your swimming pool.

Swimming pool maintenance is a detailed and complicated subject. You may feel overwhelmed as your builder explains to you what you’ll need to do to keep your pool in great shape after they leave.

If you want to have the best possible understanding of what you need to do to keep your pool in great shape for many years to come, then you need to understand all those details that go into the building of your pool. You don’t need to become a pool expert, but if you start learning about your swimming pool in the design phase, then you’ll be ready to handle the maintenance instructions.

Selecting Your Swimming Pool Builder

A swimming pool is an investment, and just as you want to understand where your money is invested, you need to understand how your swimming pool works. There are too many variables to write one simple guide about how your swimming pool works. Is it an indoor or outdoor pool? In-ground or above? Fiberglass, vinyl or brick?

As you interview, keep in mind that you want one who is extremely comfortable teaching you about how your pool is constructed and how it works. If your pool builder tells you not to worry about the little things, they’ll take care of it all, then they aren’t doing you any favors, You need to choose a builder who will want to educate you as much as possible.

What You Need to Learn

Your swimming pool builder will obviously teach you how to maintain it. But what else should you learn?
• The major components of your pool
• The material of the components of your pool are made from
• What each component does
• How the components work together
• Common areas that need repairs, when, and why
• The signs that something may be wrong with your pool, or that something needs repairing
• The problems associated with pool disinfectants, and how to select the best disinfectants for your pool design
• Air quality and condensation concerns, if any
• Temperature regulation, if required