Is your pool a healthy pool? You can use your senses to see if it is. Use your sight to look for clear blue water. Use your touch to check for smooth and clean tiles. You can use your smell to make sure there are no strong odors. Finally, you can listen to your pool cleaning equipment to make sure … Read More
Hot Tubs and Sore Muscles
Do hot tubs help relieve sore muscles? The answer is YES! Your hot tub can bring your body from stiff and overloaded to agile and rejuvenated. Heat therapy helps increase blood flow, stimulate healing, and relax muscles. You will, in fact, benefit fro soaking in a hot tub before and after exercise. Call your Maui pool service, Ohana Pool & … Read More
Is High Alkalinity Harmful To Your Pool?
A high alkalinity has the potential risk of affecting how all chemicals work in a swimming pool. For example, the pH-one of the most valuable chemicals in the pool-is greatly affected by total alkalinity. When TA goes too high, the pH will go to the high end and this will make all chemicals useless, including your chlorine. When total alkalinity … Read More
How to Lower Alkalinity and pH
If your swimming pool has high alkalinity and pH, below are a few tips on how to lower. Take accurate readings of TA and pH using a reliable test kit. Mix muriatic and and water and distribute it evenly in your swimming pool. Use a pool calculator to get the right amount of acid needed. Your level should be 100 … Read More
Pool Resurfacing
Is your pool in need of resurfacing? Call Ohana Pool & Spa to do the job for you. Our qualified pool technicians will give you superior service. We can do plaster work and the maintenance afterward to keep your pool running efficiently. Our services include weekly Maui swimming pool cleaning, maintenance, chemicals, repairs, water testing, and swimming pool inspections
What Causes High pH and Alkalinity in a Swimming Pool?
The main reason pH is high for a swimming pool is high alkalinity. To avoid high alkalinity, add Alkalinity Increaser slowly while measuring its level. If alkalinity goes above 120ppm, your pH will certainly rise. The second cause of high pH in a swimming pool is using Calcium Hypochlorite (powder chlorine) pool shock to sanitize the pool water. Cal hypo … Read More
Merry Christmas!
The staff and family of Ohana Pool & Spa would like to wish all of our customers, family and friends a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We hope everyone is staying safe and healthy during this time. With the upcoming holidays, your swimming pool and/or hot tub could be getting more usage than normal. Call our experienced staff … Read More
Basic Swimming Pool Maintenance
Basic cleaning of your swimming pool includes cleaning the water, scrubbing the walls, keeping your filters maintained and cleaning the area around your pool. First, skim the surface of your pool. Debris collects on your pool’s surface everyday. Removing this debris will keep the water fresh and allow you to clean less frequently. Second, brush the walls of your pool … Read More
Bromine vs Chlorine?
Chlorine dissolves quickly to begin sanitizing the water. Chlorine tablets can be used in floating dispensers, in line or offline chlorine feeders, or placed right in the skimmer basket, although this is not recommended. Granules can be pre-dissolved in a bucket of water and dispensed around the pool. As chlorine begins disinfecting the water or killing algae it forms compounds … Read More
Foaming Hot Tub?
Do you have a hot tub foaming problem you want to fix once and for all? Too much foam in a hot tub is one of the most common problems that spa owners complain about. When the water first goes in to the spa you notice that there is almost no bubbles or foam at all, but a few weeks … Read More