Cleaning your pool: Toucan products

I will do you a favor by introducing the Toucan products. These are interesting products to simplify your pool maintenance and protect your equipment.

Let’s start with the protection of your equipment. In this basket, you can see that the openings are quite large. It will retain the larger particles like dead leaves, but the finer ones will travel to the pump. Once they get to the pump, they may be retained by the pump basket, but if they’re very small, like thorns if you live near conifers, that can become dangerous for the equipment.

A good way to prevent this issue is to use these small protectors, which are filters that you can add to your skimmer basket. There is a T-shaped fastener that you’ll insert on the bottom of the skimmer. Then, you’ll stretch the filter and place it around the skimmer basket. When it’s full, you can replace it or clean it.

Here I have sponges of different sizes that can be used to clean the waterline. The biggest one can be fixed on a pole so we could go deeper to rub. The smaller one is used manually on the waterline, steps, or even on some garden furniture. However, avoid surfaces that might be too fragile and test on a hidden area before. It will really ease maintenance and cleaning.

Don’t get me wrong, yes it looks a lot like domestic cleaning products, but in these sponges, there is no soap so it won’t change the chemistry of the water. This is obviously what we want to avoid when we work in the pool.

The last product is the Water Lily that you’ll deposit on the surface of the water, directly in the pool or in the skimmer if you prefer. Its primary purpose is to absorb and retain oily substances, especially sunscreen residue. It will absorb up to a month and it comes in a pack of six. Change your Water Lily every 3 to 5 weeks to ensure that you always have clean water.

Toucan products are simple-to-use and will be of great help for the summer!