The Importance of Cleaning Your Swimming Pool Filter

There are 10.4 million residential swimming pools in the US.

Those pools are great for cooling off in the summer heat, but they require a lot of maintenance. Among the most important pool maintenance items is cleaning your swimming pool filter.

Your swimming pool filter is a key component of keeping the water you swim in clean and healthy. But there are other advantages to regularly cleaning your filter as well. Keep reading to learn what those benefits are.

Why Should You Clean Your Swimming Pool Filter?

Of course, your swimming pool filter keeps your pool clean. But did you know there are also cost and energy savings associated with regular pool maintenance? Below we tell you a little more about each of these benefits.

1. Keep Your Pool Water Healthy

Your swimming pool filter is what keeps your pool clean and healthy. We don't mean just free of cloudiness, we mean free of all sorts of stuff you don't want to swim in.

The purpose of the filter is to remove large particles from your pool water, such as dirt, debris, and insects. It also removes fine particles such as bacteria, calcium, oils, and other contaminants you can't see with the naked eye.

The filter traps those particles, big and small. But then those particles are trapped in your filter. Which means you need to empty it.

2. Save Money

Taking care of your swimming pool filter is a preventative measure that saves you money. That's because the cleanliness of your filter affects your entire pool filtration system. A clean filer means the entire system can operate at its best.

If you don't clean the filter of all the particles it's trapped, it will eventually get clogged. That puts stress on your pool equipment.

Relieving that stress prevents problems from building up and becoming more expensive problems. But it also extends the life of your pool pump and filtration system, so your pool will last longer.

3. Use Less Chlorine

If your filter is working properly, it helps to evenly distribute the chemicals that you use to keep your pool water clean and healthy. If it isn't working properly, those chemicals aren't properly distributed, which means you have to use more.

Meaning that a clean filter reduces the demand for pool chemicals like chlorine. In the long run, that saves you money on those expensive agents.

4. Increased Energy Efficiency

Pool pumps and filtration systems use loads of energy. But they can use less energy if they're properly maintained.

You can reduce the amount of energy your system uses by keeping your swimming pool filter clean. That allows for optimal flow rates. Not only does that reduce your impact on the environment, but it also reduces the impact on your wallet in terms of energy costs.

Hire Our Pool Maintenance Service

Cleaning your swimming pool filter is essential to having a healthy and clean pool. But it can also save you money on maintenance, chemicals, and energy.

But cleaning your filter must be done properly to be beneficial. For that, you need professionals. Contact us to hire our pool maintenance service.