Pool cleaning day?

Short survey, if you please?

Does your community pool have a “cleaning day” when it is closed for cleaning and maintenance? If so: what day of the week is it?

Our pool cleaning day is Monday. And on every Memorial Day for at least the past 3 years, there has been a ‘problem’ and the gate access system has prevented people from accessing the pool. The pool cleaner knows not to clean that day. And despite me calling and reminding the PMC on the preceding Thursday or Friday - “something happens” and the gate system locks up the pool Monday.

I’ll spare you the Extended-Play version of this rant. In short, I’m wondering about changing “pool cleaning day” to Wednesday. Labor Day and Memorial Day are always on Mondays. We’d only need to hassle with the gate system for Juneteenth (Wednesday June 17 2024) and Independence Day (Wednesday July 4 2029).

I’ve not yet talked to the pool guy. Someone has told me “but it needs to be on Monday because the pool gets extra dirty on the weekend.” This may be true - but I’m inclined to think that somebody just chose Monday at random years ago, and we’ve been living with the consequences ever since.

Bill

I agree: Why not Tuesday?

This is a 25-yard pool with several lanes, right? Else I do not know why a swim team would want to use it. That's a big pool. I do not envy your (all-volunteer) responsibility here. Glad you turned the swim team down (no ifs, ands or buts) and spared yourself even the possibility of a lot more work.

Bill, How is your gate lock software system set up? Besides telling the scheduling software to exclude a specific day of the week, are you able to set the schedule
to keep the gates open to exclude specific days in that schedule? 

Our two pools are never closed for cleaning. We have a pool tech who comes by every day but Sunda and brushes the sides and tile. A water sample gets taken and the chemicals are adjusted. The filters are cleaned and the pool is completely vacuumed about once a week. If we end up with some kind of algae that requires special treatment, we will close for a day or two - but that's only once or twice a year.

I don't understand why you have to close the pool for an entire day?

We never close our pool either, which is open 24/7/365 from 5am - 10pm. Our pool guy is here more often than 1X week and usually really early, like 6am.

BillD16, I was operating on the assumption that you either did not have the power to control the gate access system, or that did you not want to add this to your duties.

You're correct on both counts.

Bill

Memories of opening the pool and maintenance... Our pool house also doubled for the bathrooms for the Pool attendees and Lawncare. Also our Pool caretaker cleaned the bathrooms on the day they came in. (Monday LOL). I worked 2nd shift and got off at 2 am. The pool person came around 7 or 8 am. The lawncare people came around Wednesdays/Thursdays around 9 am. The pool opened around 10 AM everyday and closed at various times in the evening up to 10 PM.

Guess who had the key to the bathroom/clubhouse? Another reason why I slept only 4 hours a day! The "lucky" days were when someone had an "accident" at the pool and we had to shock it. Which forced closing it for 24 hours at times. Everyone called to find out why the pool was closed...

I loved having access to a pool. However, it is one of those things that can destroy a person's soul... or atleast it is a portal to H#LL...