Leaves Falling in Your Pool From Your Trees?

How to Deal With the Leaves

During pool season, these trees provide so much for the pool owner in the way of beautifying the pool environment, providing a cool spot near the pool, and providing shade for those that need sun protection.

On the other hand, during the fall, pool owners are paying the price of having trees. What can a pool owner do to combat the leaf problem? You could cut your trees. When the leaves fall in your pool, they absorb the chemicals in your pool and turns your pool green. By cutting your trees it would make it easier to keep clean during the fall. As well as easier on your pool guy, and could save you money on one-time cleans. 

But if you want to keep the trees, here are some things you could do to help prevent the leaves from falling in the pool: 

Mesh covers

Mesh covers have become increasingly popular in recent years. Mesh covers allow water to pass through but catch the leaves. Although the leaves will still have to be removed from the top of the mesh cover, the cover keeps the majority of the leaves from getting into the pool. A properly installed mesh cover (which resembles a trampoline-look over your pool) allows you to blow the leaves off the cover.

Leaf nets

Leaf nets are a much less expensive alternative to mesh covers, but work on the same principle. Leaf nets look similar to fishing nets. They lay across the pool, anchored by water tubes, and catch the leaves as they fall. Periodically the cover must be removed in order to remove the leaves from the top of the cover.

Safety fences

Although the primary purposes of a removable safety fence are to keep children away from the pool and keep pets or stray animals (such as mice, rats, frogs, snakes, crawfish, turtles, armadillos, beavers, and even an occasional skunk) they are also effective at keeping blowing leaves from entering the pool.

Daily maintenance

If you are disciplined enough to do it every day, daily maintenance is a great method of removing leaves from your swimming pool. This requires you to empty the skimmer baskets, dip the leaves out of the pool, and remove leaves from the automatic cleaner on a daily basis. Some pool owners find that 2-3 times per day is required when the leaves are really falling. One consideration here is to be aware of the possibility of snakes in the skimmer baskets. Often times it is difficult to see snakes as they often curl up in the basket and are not clearly visible. Therefore, it is important to be careful when cleaning your skimmer baskets. Be sure that your skimmer basket has a handle so that you do not have to reach into the basket. In addition, before reaching into the skimmer basket, look very closely, and even consider using a hook or pliers to remove the basket. 

We hope this helped you!

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