It’s hard to find a reliable pool cleaner where I live. 
Can anyone recommend a good place to learn how to clean a small pool by myself?
It's only 6x6 meters. TIA.

How deep, what's the inside surface made of.   How bad is it now, just cloudy or green ?  Do you use salt or chlorine ?

8 hours ago, RobKray said:

It’s hard to find a reliable pool cleaner where I live. 
Can anyone recommend a good place to learn how to clean a small pool by myself?
It's only 6x6 meters. TIA.

Thanks for the insperation as I have over 30 years in the industry & I have been toying around with the idea of an E-book or YouTube for this niche for awhile, both domestic & commercial! 👍

I cleaned my own salt water pools (at 2 different houses) in Australia for about 20 years.  Never had any major problems - local pool shop provided water testing, chemicals and the rare equipment replacement or repairs.

 

Here the properties I have rented have provided "a pool cleaning service" - a night mare.  I have offered to clean the pool myself, but owners and real estate agents against the idea.

 

Good luck in your search; I would be nice to know where you live!!

17 hours ago, KhunLA said:

How deep, what's the inside surface made of.   How bad is it now, just cloudy or green ?  Do you use salt or chlorine ?

It’s tiles, ceramic I guess. It’s ok now as guy still cleaning it when he is reminded.

1.5 m deep. He uses chlorine and another white powder.

4 minutes ago, RobKray said:

It’s tiles, ceramic I guess. It’s ok now as guy still cleaning it when he is reminded.

1.5 m deep. He uses chlorine and another white powder.

White stuff is probably ash/soda  ash/ baking soda to control the PH, which I never bothered with, as to hard in the tropics to maintain, between changing sunny / overcast & rain.

 

Concentrate more on chloride levels as sunlight / UV eats it up, and more people in the pool 'absorbs it'   

To properly look after a pool you need to check pH, T.A = Total Alkilinity, Calcium hardness, free & combined chlorine levels.

However this is not possible in Thailand for many reason, main one being the natives are mostly brainless.

So most just concentrate on pH & total chlorine. Which is sufficient but leads to issues like water being acidic or to high in  pH over long periods which in turn leads to grout deterioration & black spot. I would recommend installing a salt chlorinator.

Send me a PM if you want to look more into this!

 

One tip - make sure your cleaner is not backwashing everytime he goes into the pumproom as they are notorious for doing this. In nearly all cases once a month is sufficient unless you have other problems.

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