Arizona Pool Maintenance Calendar: What to Do Every Month
A month-by-month maintenance schedule for Arizona gunite pools — chemistry, monsoon prep, equipment checks, and the seasonal tasks that protect your finish.
Arizona is the hardest place in the country to own a swimming pool. Summer water temperatures routinely climb past 90°F, evaporation can pull an inch of water out of the pool every day, monsoon storms dump dust and organic debris in minutes, and the Valley's hard tap water fights you on calcium every time you top off. A pool that would coast through a Midwest season needs an actual schedule here. This is the calendar we give our own clients after a custom gunite pool build . Follow it and your pebble interior, tile, and equipment will last years longer than a pool run reactively. The weekly baseline (all year) Regardless of season, five things happen every week: Test and balance chemistry. Free chlorine 2–4 ppm, pH 7.4–7.6, total alkalinity 80–120 ppm, calcium hardness 200–400 ppm, and cyanuric acid 30–50 ppm. In Arizona, pH drifts up constantly — muriatic acid is the routine…
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