Shadowing Practice: Our pool has never been this colour 🥴 #poolcleaning #pool #diyprojects - Learn English Speaking with Video

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It seems like every year our pool gets worse.
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In fact, we have yet to open our pool for the season to anything but a green swamp, and this year is no different.
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Actually, this year, it's not even green.
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It's almost black.
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So the first step is power washing everything.
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The ground, the walls, our patio furniture, which unfortunately got eaten over the winter.
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Every single year, I share our pool cleaning video, and people are always surprised that we don't actually drain the water and refill it, but that's just not what people do around here with an in-ground pool.
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We drain out some of the nasty water that's accumulated over the winter, but then we just start adding in chemicals to kill the bacteria and the algae.
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And then by the next day, the pool looks like this.
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Slowly, the water starts getting more clear.
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We hook up our pool equipment and give the pool a good vacuum.
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We do this a couple times and clean the filter in between because it gets pretty nasty.
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We give the walls one more scrub, add in our pool floaties, and we're good to enjoy the pool for another season.
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Let me know, do you have to do this process where you live?
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