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7 Ways to Keep Mosquitoes Away From Your Pool

Mosquitoes are one of the worst things in your pool, which harmful to your health condition. They are little bugs and carry life-threatening diseases such as the Zika virus and West Nile virus. They come certainly and bit you, but you can focus after a long-time. Mosquitoes come to your pool because they love water, humidity, and wet place which your pool have available. If you commercially use the pool, you need to kill the mosquitoes and take a permanent step.

Today I am going to discuss with you some major steps which help you to kill the mosquitoes or take the permanent steps. If you follow the below 6 steps, you will easily avoid the mosquitoes in your backyard swimming pool. So, without delay, let’s get started.

1. Dump the standing water

Well, you may know that most of the mosquitoes are born on standing water. Inspect your yard after rain, and you may surprise when you find the place of water lingers. The mosquitoes grow from eggs to biters in one or two weeks, but the eggs still wait for the month to grow the mosquitoes. Turn over the buckets and recycle old tires and fill out your area where your area stays dump.

After cleaning the dump, you can ensure that the mosquito’s eggs are killed and the dump never full-fill with water. So, if you find any standing water, you need to dump it so that the mosquitoes are not grown up and bit you and your family members.

2. Don’t forget to use a pool cover

When you think your pool is not used for a long time, you need to cover your pool to avoid the mosquitoes. Though it is hard enough to cover the pool fully, this method helps you keep safe from mosquitoes. Of course, you don’t want to pull out your safety cover every time you get out of the pool. However, it looks unattractive and pain, but this method truly works and helps you avoid your swimming pool’s mosquitoes. You can use the solar cover to avoid the pain.

3. Keep up with landscaping

However, mosquitoes love piles of soggy leaves, tall, rotting logs, and wet grass. Mows your grass regularly, and if possible, try to spray some chemicals on your grass. On the other hand, you need to pay special attention to where stay moist such as underneath decks. So, if you want to mow your garden, you can choose a perfect mower so that your work has done easily and quickly without any hassles.

4. Fill the hole of the tree

Do you have an old and knotty tree of your apartment or yard? Trees of holes have the living place of some animals and insects. But if your trees hold water, surely it is dangerous for your pool. The holes may keep the mosquito’s eggs, which is harmful to you. To safely avoid this issue without killing your old tree, fill the holes with foam that is an excellent idea. The foam fill-up the holes without increase weight and other things.

Note, you will avoid this method if your holes do not keep any water for at least 6 months for more. I hope that it is an excellent method for you to save the trees and avoid the mosquitoes from your property.

5. Repair your septic tank cracks

If you have septic tank cracks, you need to care about it. The mosquitoes lay their eggs on septic tanks, and after a week, they bit you and your family. Search for any place they can get in, such as uncovers ventilation pipe. If you find the pipe water, you need to use some chemical which is not harmful to the human body. Most of the people do not repair the septic tank, which is harmful. So, if you find your septic tank worst enough, you need to repair it.

6. Clean the pool side

The pool sides are always wet, which is the love side of mosquitoes. Well, clean means cut the grass, dry the ground, and always clean. If you try it perfectly, the mosquitoes never lay their eggs, and you can keep your pool safe. So, you need to clean the pools regularly and keep the poolside dry and wet-free. I think this section also helps you to keep you free from mosquitoes.

7. Maintain the pool with the proper chemistry

If your pool is full of clean, you need to clean the pool regularly and maintain the above steps so that you can be safe from mosquitoes. Keep up your pool maintenance, such as clean your filter and skimmer regularly. Create a pool schedule which helps you to keep clean the pool from mosquitoes. Most of the pool owners forget to clean the pools perfectly, and after that, the victims of mosquitoes.

Conclusions

Mosquitoes are bad things for each of the people. But mosquitoes come and grow in the pool easily and comfortably. Most of the pool owners worried because of mosquitoes. If you are a pool owner, you may also have the same issue. However, the seven above steps help you to keep safe yourself and your family from mosquitoes. The steps are very easy and less costly because you need not purchase any tools or chemicals to clean the pools’ mosquitoes.

Moreover, if you have any questions, you will contact me or let me know the below comment box. I hope that you already apply the steps for your pool to safe from mosquitoes.

About the author

Sharif Miah

Hi! I'm Sharif, the founder of Globo Pool® and I have been working in the pool & hot tub industry for the last few years. I love to share my experiences with people & hope you are enjoying my information and lessons!

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