subject: How Your HOA Can Maintain Your Community Swimming Pool or Spa for Less [print this page] How Your HOA Can Maintain Your Community Swimming Pool or Spa for Less
If you live in a community with a pool or spa, odds are that you contribute to pay for the service that goes to cleaning and maintaining those nice features. While having access to a pool and spa may be a big portion of the reason that you chose to live in the community that you do, it would be nice if the cost of maintaining them put a bit smaller of a dent in your bank account.
In an effort to keep costs down, your home owners association has probably tried getting quotes from a number of different pool companies to see if switching could save money. The main problem here though, is that many of these companies are cleaning and maintaining pools in the very same fashion, with the very same chemicals. In order to realize a substantial difference in the price of pool maintenance, a completely different approach to that maintenance needs to be taken.
Your current pool service company, and probably many others in the area, use chlorine and other caustic chemicals in order to bring the PH level of the pool to a good level and to ensure that the pool was properly sanitized. While these methods have proved to be effective in sanitizing, there are now a number of very safe, viable alternatives that are much more cost effective while delivering the same results.
There are reputable pool maintenance contractors that are now effectively using revolutionary alternatives to clean and maintain pools. Methods like CO2 and saline chlorination are eliminating the need for pool companies to use expensive and dangerous chemicals to service your pool. With a lower initial cost of materials, these contractors who are making use of alternative methods of pool maintenance can provide the same service for less, saving you and your home owners association a substantial amount of money on the same level of service.
As an added bonus to the savings that you'll likely experience on the regular maintenance contract, these new methods of maintaining pools and spas don't cause nearly the damage to equipment and surfaces. These gentler ways of cleaning will help to save money on pool repairs and ultimately keep your pool or spa functioning exactly as it should for the foreseeable future.
