Gather up the pool toys, slather on the sunscreen and dive in. With Austin's temperatures climbing, people are ready to spend some time in the water. Residential pool owners are seeing more of their extra-nice neighbors and relatives, who envision themselves poolside this summer. In addition to managing the guest list, pool owners are cleaning and chemically balancing their wet and cool spot of the world, in anticipation of relief from Austin's inevitable summer heat. We have a narrow focus and plan to keep it that way.
Commercial pools require daily visits, compared with weekly for residential ones.
Apartment pools typically require a longer walk, making a difference to an employee lugging 80 pounds of equipment in the Texas heat. Treatment of commercial pools also takes longer, and the paperwork is more complex. Pure-Chem's service technicians generally are in and out of a back yard in three to five minutes, because they provide only chemical maintenance, not pool cleaning. Every week, they check the chlorine, pH and alkaline levels. Periodically, they check for conditioner, calcium hardness and total dissolved solids.