Ten Tips pools clean and keep safe this summer

concert Conaughton
San Diego County
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The degree is more, children do not attend school and the warmer summer months are just around the corner. He no time in the pool!

San Diego Department of Environmental Health County checked about 4,000 public pools and spas each year to ensure they clean and safe. Because only are public pools inspected and no private houses that do not come back yards of residents. But they can share some helpful tips.

So have no pool, here are some tips to ensure that it is safe for them, their families and friends can stop.

Be sure!

1. Rule number one, babysit: The pool is a place for fun. But every year children suffer serious injury or drowning in residential pools in the US So parents should teach their children to swim (and themselves learn if they do not know how). If your house opens directly onto the pool area, you have to install a door alarm to warn when a child opens. If you do not already have a fence between the house and the pool, you should move into consideration. Children walk a lot and find their way into the pool, even if they are only for a minute out of sight. But most importantly - when the kids in the pool are, or someone they must always see. And remember, water wings, Styrofoam "noodles" and other toys are not safety devices and children with them should not be neglected.
2. Check fences: If there is a fence and self-closing gate around the pool, make sure that the distances between each of its poles and between the lower rail and the bottom no deal is more than four inches and at least five feet high, so that children and animals can not climb or crawl into a pool without supervision to get.
3. Make sure that the channel covers pool are visible and intact: If a pool owner not get a clear look at their drain covers pool, you will not be able a swimmer to see in danger of water or a person trapped in a drain - and the pool water has to be cleaned! If you can see them, make sure they are not cracked or broken, and remind children not near them to play, so they can not be sucked and caught.
4. a team of two security by: Each group must have two essential parts of the safety equipment: a minimum of 17 inches a life ring (lifejacket) in diameter, which can be started taken to help to make swimmers stay afloat and a safety hook people in security pull. Pool owners should also consider keeping a phone by the pool while swimming so if they need to make an emergency call, do so quickly.
5. Damage to the deck and pool equipment: Make sure that the stairs to the pool and pool balustrades are safe for people who are not wrong when they entered dependent on them and to leave the pool. preventing repair of damage to the terraces people tripping.

Proper rest

1. Water tests regularly: Keep Safe Swimming is more than just prevent drowning and physical injuries. Pool owners should not swim in dirty water their pool water to keep clean, so sick people. Check the chemical balance of the water in a pool is one of the most important things you can do to ensure that you are on. In fact, this balance - which follows the water clean and safe disinfection - can easily get out of control through the intensive use, heat, rain and many other things thrown. To ensure a safe pool hold at least twice tested a week and a day, if possible, the level of pH and chlorine.
2. Do not swim in case of illness: chlorination of the pool is only so much. Pool owners should keep germs pool to practice through good hygiene and not swim when you have diarrhea. If there is an accident in the pool, they need to be sure to clean the pool and follow the instructions for proper cleaning water.
3. Skim, brush and vacuum the pool: to make it look like a disaster not only the pool, it might difficult for chemicals to keep the water clean. Swimmers can perform in sun creams, oils and others. It is dust, sediment and leaves flying in the air, make all of which is much more difficult to get hold of the filter system keep things clean. To use a slotted spoon handy to wipe the surface of the pool, empty the walls cockroaches and their low frequency. Do not forget to remove leaves and debris skimmer baskets.
4. Keeping your own deck: It only reason - the less damage there on the deck around the pool, the less things that can be blown or transported in it. A good scan is looking to go a long way for the original pool.
5. Keep the pool clean filter: If the pool has a cartridge filter, you should check, clean or replace the filters if they are dirty. If a sand filter, you should use the filter screens used to backwash and clean if necessary.

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