Heavy rains can wreck pool chemistry, equipment, and finishes if you are not prepared. Here is what every Indian pool owner should do before the season turns.
Indian monsoon is unforgiving on pool equipment. A weekend of unattended rain can drop your chemistry, choke your skimmers, and short an electrical panel. Use this checklist before the first June showers.
Work through it in May, or schedule a service visit so the pre-monsoon prep is done for you. Either way, do not let the rains catch you with a half-prepared pool.
Two weeks before the rains
- Lower water level by 6 to 8 inches to absorb runoff.
- Service skimmer weirs and replace any that have warped.
- Backwash and clean the filter media, this is your last clean cycle for a month.
- Service the pool cover or pool sheet if you use one, replace cracked grommets now.
Plant room hardening
- Check the plant room roof for any sign of leak. Even a slow drip onto an electrical panel will trip a relay at the worst time.
- Verify the RCD on the pool circuit trips in under 30 ms. If it does not, replace it before the rains, not after.
- Seal cable glands with fresh silicone. Monsoon humidity finds every gap.
- Stock a 2 kg bag of stabilised chlorine and fresh test strips, ready to go.
Through the monsoon
- Run the filtration on a slightly longer cycle, the bather load is low but the dust and pollen load is high.
- Test chemistry twice a week, not once. Heavy rain dilutes chlorine and shifts pH fast.
- Skim the surface every other day during heavy weeks, leaves on the bottom turn the water green in 48 hours.
- Inspect the deck drain after every cloudburst, a clogged drain backs water into the plant room.
A pool that goes into the monsoon prepared comes out of it ready for the festive season. A pool that does not, spends August green.
