Pool Cleaning

[zboss]

I folks...

I'm not sure if I'm posting in the right forum... but here goes...

I was recently asked if I would be interested in getting some weekend work doing some pool cleaning. I was wondering if anyone here has done this and if so, what's it like? I remember the bottom of the pool I took my open water in was covered in YUK.

How much do these guys get paid? What can you do to increase you wage?

Thanks!

 

[hecker-the-wrecker]

are you sure it wasn't CESSpool cleaning!!??!?!?

 

[crpntr133]

Depends upon how bad the water is. The LDS has a indoor pool that is used for about everything and it is clean. Someone comes in once a week, puts on dive gear and vacuums the bottom.
What some one might be thinking about is at the begining of pool season you have all the crap and crud at the bottom that a filter doesn't pick up. They might be wanting you to take the vacuum around and clean it.
The work isn't hard just a matter of getting everything right and keeping it there.

 

[zboss]

are you sure it wasn't CESSpool cleaning!!??!?!?

funny

 

[mike_s]

I folks...

I'm not sure if I'm posting in the right forum... but here goes...

I was recently asked if I would be interested in getting some weekend work doing some pool cleaning. I was wondering if anyone here has done this and if so, what's it like? I remember the bottom of the pool I took my open water in was covered in YUK.

How much do these guys get paid? What can you do to increase you wage?

Thanks!

Don't expect your gear to last as long.

The chlorine will eat it up. one of the local dive instructors here has a "cheap" set of dive gear he uses for instructing while in pools. Another person I know who is a diver at the local nasa facility says their get gets eaten up by the chlorine.


Also, one other thing to look at if you're gonna do this is patching the vinyl liners in pools. One of the people here at my LSD used to do 2 or 3 patch jobs per week of people who had holes in their liners. I think he got the work from a local pool shop. So check with them. (by the way, I think he did most of that work with a pony bottle on a sling instead of hauling all the gear in.)

mike