Pool Services Mellons Bay

Mature Planting and Sloping Sections in Mellons Bay

Mellons Bay is small enough that the pools in it are fairly consistent: established, well built, on properties where the landscaping went in decades ago and has since grown up around the pool. That mature planting is the defining service issue. Trees that were a sensible distance from the water in 1990 are now overhanging it, and root systems that were nowhere near the coping are now under it.

Organic load from overhanging planting is the most common cause of persistent water problems here. Leaf, flower, seed and pollen all break down into the water and feed algae faster than sanitiser can keep up with, particularly in a shaded pool that never gets properly warm. Owners often respond by increasing chlorine, which treats the symptom. Reducing the load and dealing with phosphate levels treats the cause.

The sloping sections bring the usual consequences: plant at a different level to the pool, longer pipe runs, and surrounds that have had thirty years of ground movement to work against. Cracked or lifting coping on a Mellons Bay pool is often movement rather than a failed interior, and it is worth knowing which before committing to a resurface.

What we commonly see in Mellons Bay:

• Mature planting now overhanging pools it was set back from originally
• Phosphate driven algae in shaded, cooler water
• Root movement lifting coping and paving
• Longer pipe runs from plant at a different level
• Well built older pools worth renovating rather than replacing