LaBella's Pool Service

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Pipe laying day!

51st BDay ride on Arnold Rim Trail!

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Skimmer install

Tell Your Lawmakers Pool & Hot Tub Maintenance is an Essential Service As more information on COVID-19 is being disseminated by the federal, state and local gov...ernments, there has been a push to classify industries as essential or non-essential. Those deemed as essential can continue to operate as quarantines and restrictions are put in place. PHTA is working tirelessly to ensure that our industry is classified as essential to preventing the transmission of infectious diseases, helping maintain community health, and ensuring public safety. We need your help. We want to make sure that this message is shared as broadly as possible, so we are asking for your help in sharing this with your state and local legislators. https://openstates.org/find_your_legislator/

We will be open during the next 3 weeks to keep all the pools in compliance with the county sanitation guidlines. If you have any questions please call the office at 510-886-3020.

Just a reminder with have tons of chlorine/bleach if anyone is looking for it :)

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Another day another filter

Changing sand in a big filter.

Memories- November 1967

A little concrete and pipe repair

Celebrating our 60th year!!!!!!

Drilling some holes

When you have to get the job done.

Mama taking babies for a swim!

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No pool is left dirty

We service all size pools

We clean all sizes of pools

LaBellas’s pool Service takes care of all sizes of pools.

The stairs to nowhere

Couple concrete patches after new skimmers were installed

Playing at UC Berkeley Hearst Pool

Playing with concrete today instead of mud.

Few more pic of Oakland zoo job.

Why play in the mud when you can play in the Alligator and Otter poop.

Pool Corp Pool Expo 2019

Another day playing in the mud

Playing in the mud!

A little in house training from HAYWARD Pool

Always digging.

Not sure you are supposed to mount the pool pump on top of the heater

Merry Christmas

Dig and fill. Never seems to end.

Working in the December SUN!

Introducing #WhatIsWednesday where we answer all of the What is pool related questions commonly searched for online. Today’s question is What is backwashing...? ANSWER: This is a process designed to lower pressure, improve water flow and clean the filter medium by temporarily reversing the flow of water to flush out contaminants and debris sending dirt to waste. Thanks torontopoolproducts.ca for the image!

We all know that one neighbor that proclaims to know all, don’t we? Let’s debunk this common myth and learn why salt water pools are NOT chlorine free:

Working at Oakland Zoo on alligator and otter filters. Moved 3 tons of media up and down those stairs.

LaBella's Pool Service is looking for a pool tech/cleaner to work Monday through Friday. We are family owned and operated and have been in business for 55 years. Truck, all cleaning equipment and service shirts are provided. You must have a clean driver's license. Job is year round. No past experience required. On the job training. Starting pay $12-$16/hour, based upon experience.

Our pool fence's fiberglass posts provide STRENGTH to keep your family safe and RESILIENCE to prevent unattractive, bent/crooked posts as seen with aluminum posts. Watch how we do it -> http://bit.ly/fiberglass-post

Lots and lots of rain out there..Be sure to keep your deck drains clear...

Check out this great article on enzymes! The 5 W’s of Enzymes:Stop scrubbing scum lines & enjoy crystal clear water! http://ow.ly/TaOS303t3hQ

Confused on how to remove phosphates from your pool, or just where they come from? Check out our new video! #NoClouding #Phosfree #NaturalChemistry #ProblemSolving

This pool was green with copper, they added StainFree Extra Strength & MetalFree to get the pool water looking sparkling clear again! #BeforeAndAfter #StainRemoval

Comcast has an outage and our phones are currently down. We apologies for the inconvenience. Please email us: [email protected] with any inquiries, we'll get back to you as soon as we can.

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Proper water balance is key to a perfect pool! Make it easier with Instant Pool Water Conditioner #NaturalChemistry #LiquidCYA #YesWeReallyHaveThat #SwimmingPool

Heat loss and evaporation are hot topics in the pool industry- have a look at this quick video from Operation Build! #NaturalChemistry #CoverFree #OperationBuild #WaterConservation

Getting some work done.

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Pool season is still in gear and we have one thing you need to know before your kids hop in the water:

If you receive a DOCXX file from Marc do not open it our IT guy is working on the problem....

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WINTERIZING POOL TIPS CLEAN OUT THE POOL. The first step is to clean out any leaves, insects, dirt and debris. Use your pool vacuum, or just fish them out with a net. Clean out the skimmer and the pump basket, too. Clean the tile line with tile cleaner. Easier now than next spring, when the scum has had all winter to set. BALANCE THE WATER CHEMISTRY....Continue reading

GET THE FACTS ON POOL, SPA AND HOT TUB WATER USE 1. Swimming pools, spas and hot tubs are NOT water wasters. This fact has been confirmed by the state, numerous water districts and cities. 2. There are no state prohibitions on the use of public water to fill or refill pools or spas. This includes the governor's proclamations and State Water Resources Control Board regulations.... 3. Approximately 13,000 new pools will be built in California during 2015. The amount of water it will take to fill these new pools is approximately 8/1000 of 1 percent of just the state’s water used for urban purposes. 4. New swimming pools, spas and hot tubs use a tiny fraction of 1 percent of a city's or water district's annual water use. Generally, a rounding error! This fact has caused several cities that enacted bans on filling new pools to reverse their actions and prevented others from taking any action relative to swimming pools and spas. 5. Once built, swimming pools use about the same amount of water through evaporation as the same size area planted in drought-resistant landscaping. If the pool is covered when not in use, the pool will use 1/2 of the water than drought-resistant landscape, annually. Covered spas and hot tubs lose less than 5 percent of water due to evaporation since they are always covered to keep in the heat. 6. Bans on building new pools or prohibitions on filling new pools are highly discriminatory to this industry since they are not supported by the facts about water use by pools and spas and because there are no other water-use restrictions in most cities’ water shortage contingency plans that shut down an industry. 7. Self-contained spas and hot tubs use very little water. These units have built-in covers so they are always covered when not in use which means less than 5 percent annual evaporation. The average fill is 400 gallons which can last 6 to 12 months before refilling. Compared to indoor tubs, jetted tubs and long showers, spas and hot tubs are very water efficient. 8. The swimming pool, spa and hot tub industry supports the use of covers; turning off continuous flow automatic fill devises or replacing them with timed or weather based systems; use of water saving filters or other equipment; storing water in bladders, temporary pools or otherwise where possible when remodeling a pool or spa; and using new technology to clean chemicals and solid from pool water rather than dumping and refilling the pool.

Drought Update: CPSA Meets with Governor By Scott Webb - Aqua Magazine... CPSA President John Norwood met with California Governor Jerry Brown and 17 other stakeholders last week to discuss the impact of the drought on important business industries and what methods are being utilized to conserve water. Other business representatives from corporations like Home Depot and Starbucks to small associations composed of landscapers and cemetery operators offered meaningful suggestions to help reduce water use but also alleviate the hindrance the drought imposes on economic development. A consensus was reached that water use must be slowed without discriminating against individual industries that would curtail recovery from the Great Recession. CPSA described to the governor the difficulty it has faced in responding to restrictions as there are 482 municipalities and more than 700 water districts who all have the legal jurisdiction to prohibit the construction of new pools and the refilling of existing pools. The governor and his staff were intrigued to learn specifically what cities and districts were imposing these prohibitions and CPSA is already preparing a thorough list of places where these restrictions are being adopted. It was an educational meeting, as the facts surrounding the water saved by installing swimming pools and using pool covers are unfortunately not known by many government officials who are under pressure to make severe cutbacks or face punitive fines. This education process is ongoing. The meeting with the governor and his staff provided another opportunity to demonstrate the economic implications of measures under consideration in cities and water districts that could jeopardize a $5 billion industry. Since the beginning of 2013, CPSA has spearheaded a campaign to inform the public and public officials about savings that pools provide and to offer additional practices that can further curb water use. For example, pools use about half the water of the landscape they typically replace, and use even less water than drought resistant landscaping when a pool cover is used.

Those with variable speed pumps should be running them between 2400-3000 during the summer months to help with circulation. If you are using a cover be aware the first 6-8" of water can be well over 100+ degrees Make sure to keep an eye on the temperature of the pool if using a pool cover and/or solar. We have found a few pools 90+ the last few days