Ok guys, educate me on keeping up a pool. I've decided to fire our pool guy as he doesn't do that good of a job for the money, and he neglects our equipment till it breaks and then tries to rip us off to repair it.
Our pool is around 15,000 gal play pool, pebble tec finish. I have a kreepy krauley in it that I put hoping it would deter the ducks we had a problem with (mostly worked) and knowing I was going to fire this joker. Only issue is for whatever reason the kreepy has started sticking itself in the corner in the last few weeks. Need to adjust the hoses now. Pool guy completely stopped vacuuming when I got this. You'd think he'd at least touch up the step areas for $80/month!!!
What do I need to have on hand to start doing it myself? I know I need a test kit, and a few chemicals, but which ones and where to buy? I think there is a leslies on every corner out here with all the pools.
Also, I'm a realtor so I see lots of pools, need to know what I'm talking about with my clients. I was looking at a house yesterday with a salt water pool. They had the pump diverted to run the waterfall, and I'm wondering how long it had been this way. It had a baracuda in it but it obviously hadn't run in a while with all the leaves in it. All the leaves and patches of the bottom of the pool were white like there was salt buildup on it. Is this common with neglected salt pools?