Swimming Pool Maintenance Excuses from the Pool Man

This is a new section of the FTPM site. We are constantly amazed by the true creativity and variety of pool man excuses. If you like to share yours, just click this link and we will get them posted to the site.

“It’s Your Gardener” - John D. --- Monrovia, Ca.

It appears as if the only feud that has gone on longer than the Hatfield and the McCoys is between pool men and gardeners. I was caught in this epic struggle. My problem wasn’t that there were any leaves or grass in the pool just that for some reason the pool man was sure it was the gardeners. We were getting algae in the swimming pool. We tried moving the gardening day to just before our swimming pool cleaning day. When this didn’t do the trick, the pool man said that the gardeners were blowing dirt into the swimming pool and they needed to stop using the blowers. Nothing changed, the pool still had algae.

My son in law, who had been in the pool maintenance business, suggested that we try an automatic pool cleaner. We installed the Hayward Navigator automatic pool cleaner and the pool immediately got better. After testing the water, I found out that the chlorine the pool man had been adding to the swimming pool was not working because the pool needed a strong dose of pool acid to balance it so that the chlorine would work. We spent $80 to have one service call from local pool supply house to get the swimming pool back on track. Now we handle the swimming pool maintenance just a few minutes on the weekend. The Hayward Navigator automatic pool cleaner does most of the work for me and we stopped paying $80.00 a month for the pool man’s excuses.

“It’s Your Dog” - Nancy T. – Los Angeles, Ca.

After a year of not having the swimming pool I expected and pouring extra money and chemicals into special treatments that my pool man said would solve the problem – nothing worked. Then the real culprit was identified --- “It’s your dogs.”

After setting up a fence in the yard that left the dogs with half the space they needed, the swimming pool still wasn’t clean. All I had to show for it was another extra bill to get my swimming pool ready for the summer.

I decided to try the Hayward Navigator automatic pool cleaner. From the first time we hooked it up to our pool skimmer, the pool got cleaner. We could literally see the swimming pool color change as the Hayward Navigator automatic pool cleaner rolled across the swimming pool. The next day the swimming pool looked better than it had in years. We let the dogs out and the swimming pool was still spotless. Keeping the chemicals right and doing a little spot cleaning on the pool – sweeping down the steps --- is about a 5 minute a week job. Our neighbors kept the same pool man, so I can look over the fence and see how things are going for them – it looks like the have a “dog problem.” For us – a clean swimming pool is simple and our dogs have never been happier.