Hello World! Welcome Friends! A home pool is an excellent solution on hot summer days when everyone needs to cool off and rest. For families with small children, a yard with a swimming pool is a great help, since, on days without school and obligations, children can get nervous from inactivity.
A home pool seems like a good idea to more or less everyone, but some shy away from the purchase because of the potential liabilities or dangers.
In this way, we will clear up many doubts related to the question of pool safety and reveal to you 6 ways to make it safer.
Pool Fencing
For small home pools, you must provide physical barriers that will prevent easy access to the pool and exposure to danger.
Place a fence around the entire pool that will isolate it from the house and garden. As the folks who work at pool fencing in Perth say, the best way to keep your family safe is to install a fence that is specifically designed for your pool. Make sure that the fence door is always closed, even when you are in a room that has a direct view of the pool. Unlock the door only when you are alone near the pool.
In addition to the fence, you should always have an additional obstacle, just in case. For this purpose, some of the following might work:
- protective pool cover
- an alarm that will notify you if the front door of the house has been opened
- locking all doors that can lead to the pool
Use Quality Equipment
Most, if not all, pool problems are the result of inadequate maintenance. To make bathing safe from the point of view of microbiological correctness, you need to have good equipment.
Backyard pools are generally accompanied by weak or even no purification equipment, so it is difficult to keep the water clean and healthy for use. Also, due to their mobility, they are generally placed in the “direct sun”, which additionally impairs the quality of the water.
For your water to be crystal clear and healthy, equipment, pump operation, and the number of chemical maintenance agents are essential.
Use Quality Pumps
Quality treatment pumps are key to good water quality. The size of the pool and the number of people in it will determine the volume of the pump. The more children and adults bathe in a small home pool, the greater the chance of getting sick. The larger the volume and the better the quality of the pump will help you ensure the healthiness of the water. Also, a shower is mandatory before swimming in the pool.
Put the Disinfectant In Regularly
Each manufacturer or distributor of agents gives instructions, so read carefully and calculate how much agent goes into one cubic meter of water. We usually make a mistake here (since it’s mostly chlorine), so we usually put in the wrong amount of funds.
Note: Apply chlorine in the evening when no one is swimming in the pool! Ingestion of pool water can cause intestinal infections, viral or bacterial, diarrhea, fever, or urinary tract infections. Ear infections are also possible due to the retention of impure water in the external ear canal.
Control the Quality and PH Value of the Water
As a rule, maintaining the pH value is more important than disinfection because if the pH value is not within the limits, we have to add large amounts of disinfectant but without effect. For these reasons, pay special attention to maintaining the pH of the water between 7.2 and 7.6.
In the stores where you bought your home pool, you will also find PH value meters and accompanying equipment that will make the water in your pool safer.
Prevention Measures
- Showering is mandatory for all bathers, including children
- Reduce the number of swimmers in a small pool
- Explain to the children that they must not swallow the water from the pool
- Tell them not to look underwater
- Let them avoid jumping, splashing, pushing underwater, and the like
- Never allow children to defecate in the pool
- Do not keep children in the water for too long
- For small children, change their diapers in the restroom or changing area, not near the pool
- Supervise the bathing of young children
- After leaving the pool, be sure to shower with clean water and later repeat bathing with warm water and soap.
If you follow these rules, the chances of having a nice and carefree summer increase many times over. Some of these rules will likely seem banal to you, and some will seem too expensive. Before you decide not to follow them, think about how much life is worth to you and your family.
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