Shocked!

With all the hot weather we’ve been enjoying recently, the pool has had a lot of use, so Brian seized an opportunity between guests to give it a bit of a deep clean.

He took time to clean all around the edges with the brush and thoroughly cleaned out the skimmers.

He then backwashed the filter, to clean out any dirt from the sand filter.

Backwashing sends any impurities caught by the sand filter out through the waste pipe.

He then decided to shock the pool, this is where you add a high dosage of chlorine to kill off any bacteria that may be lurking. The pool is then left for 24 hours for the chlorine to work and levels to normalise.