In most of the country the ownership of a pool gives you a natural rhythm of it open in spring, keep it open all through summer, shut it down in the fall, forget it in the winter. Orlando destroys that rhythm completely. And there is no off-season here, no classy closure where you can park an inch, wrap yourself in a wrap, and mentally take four months off until April. The heat remains, the biology remains active and the sun continues to corrupt the chemistry of your body every single day of the year whether you are paying attention or not. A local Pool Cleaning Service Orlando residents rely on to take care of them all year round knows just what that sustained environmental stress does to water quality and equipment longevity over time, and develops his maintenance strategy around the particular, compounding problems that the climate of Central Florida imposes twelve months a year instead of a generic service model that assumes that pools are periodically rejuvenated by a flushing closer to spring than the equinox and thus never experience the type of sustained and continuous chemical and biological pressure that Orlando pools undergo twelve months long.
One of the most impactful and least understood disruptors of the pool chemistry in Central Florida is the thunderstorm cycle which is inherent in the Central Florida summer. They are no delicate showers but heavy, hurricane-like showers which may drop an inch or more of precipitation and then clear off, leaving all the sunshine to shine in full on the same afternoon. Every one of those events pours in rain water with virtual no mineral content into a pool that has been fine-tuned into the water and dissolves concentrations of stabilizers that stop chlorine degradation UV-wise, reducing overall alkalinity, and pouring phosphate-laden runoff off nearby lawns and bed gardens into the water. The phosphates act as manure to algae and storm runoff in Orlando supplies them so regularly in summer that the pools which are not treated with phosphate control in mind are in fact being fed algae growth on a daily basis. This dynamic is a proactive factor that is considered by an experienced local technician, who tries to anticipate the timing of treatment and the choice of the chemical based on the actual weather pattern of this particular climate instead of treating each week the same and using a universalized schedule that sees all weeks as equal regardless of what the sky has been doing.
The algae in an Orlando pool works unlike the rare algae issue pool proprietors in other areas experience a few times of the year in special conditions. The warm water temperatures which are sustained all year round, the high phosphate levels which are deposited by storm runoff, and the vigor of UV-driven photosynthesis, all combine to provide conditions in which the pressure of algae is virtually constant – it is not whether conditions are favorable to growth, but whether the maintenance program is robust enough to inhibit it at all times. The most visible culprit is green algae that can form a noticeable bloom in two days of a chemistry disturbance during summer seasons. The more exasperating type is called mustard algae, and attaches itself to shady surfaces of walls, and seems to be sensitive to the action of brushing and shock treatment, before again settling down quietly into its former position, because the conditions of chemicals underlying caused its growth were never removed, only disturbed. Black algae is the most resistant to affected and must be treated continuously, by rooting physical structures into the plaster that require repeated specific treatment every time of service to completely remove and not suppress. It takes the sort of pattern recognition that would only occur after years of working with this particular problem in this particular environment to tell these apart accurately, treat each one in order with the right products and then change the maintenance protocol, so that the incidence of the problem would not recur quite so fast.
One of the chapters of Orlando pool care is the hard water management which is actually not given the attention that it rightfully deserves with respect to the extent of impact it has on both the quality of water and the life of the equipment in the entire region. The local water supply in Central Florida includes an excessively high degree of calcium and magnesium that push the pool water towards scaling behavior even in the first fill and deposits calcium carbonate on tile lines, roughing up the plaster surfaces as time goes on, and covering the electrolytic plates of the salt chlorinator cells with mineral deposit that gradually lowers the chlorine production and produces no noticeable alarm or error signal. A pool owner who sees his or her salt system show a green operational light with the cell at a forty percent efficiency level because calcium has been accumulating has no sure method of knowing that her or his output of sanitizer has been below its acceptance level over the past several weeks. Professional service solves this by having a direct cell inspection and physical cleaning on a schedule of how much calcium is accumulating in local water conditions and not on a generic manufacturer schedule which does not take into consideration the effect that Orlando fill water chemistry has on equipment over time.
The aspect of proper pool care in terms of quality-of-life in this case is simple and it is worth stating that. Orlando families put their pools into permanent use – it is not the time of the year when the pool becomes seasonal, when it has a vacation of the demands. It happens after school in October, it happens on New Year’s events in January, it happens on birthday parties in April and it happens on every weekend in August when the heat is making it a real nightmare to be indoors. The pool that is maintained by professionals who are aware of this area produces on those occasions accurately and reliably and does not give any surprises when it comes to the chemistry, broken equipment, or algae crises that poorly maintained pools bring at the least convenient time possible.
