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In most countries a pool has an opening day and a closing day. In the UAE it never closes, but it does change character completely four or five times a year. From October to April the water sits between roughly 18 and 26 degrees, chemical demand is modest, and a weekly visit is usually enough. From May onwards the water climbs past 30 degrees, chlorine starts disappearing almost as fast as it goes in, and evaporation can pull several millimetres of water out of the pool every day.
The practical consequence is that the same pool needs different service intensity, different chemicals and sometimes different equipment settings depending on the month. The sections below walk through the year in order, because that is how the problems actually arrive.
By August, an unshaded villa pool in Dubai or Sharjah can sit at 34 to 38 degrees, which is warmer than most people's comfort limit and close to useless for actual swimming. Warm water also holds less dissolved oxygen and hosts bacteria more happily, so temperature is a hygiene issue as much as a comfort one. There is no chemical fix for hot water; there are only mechanical and scheduling ones.
The workable options, roughly in order of cost, are: running the pump and any water features overnight so the pool sheds heat to the cooler night air; shade sails or pergola coverage over part of the surface; evaporative aeration fittings on the return lines; and, at the top end, a dedicated pool chiller, often the same heat-pump unit that warms the pool in January run in reverse. Chillers are increasingly standard on new villa builds precisely because developers know August water temperatures make an uncooled pool ornamental.
Winter is when the pool finally stops fighting you, and the temptation is to stop paying attention. Resist it, because the cool months are the only sensible time for disruptive work. Anything that requires draining or half-draining the pool — acid washing tired plaster, regrouting the tile line, replacing underwater lights, repairing expansion joints — belongs between November and February, when refill water will not immediately cook and the pool being out of action for a few days costs nothing socially.
Winter is also when total dissolved solids should be dealt with. After a full summer of evaporation and dosing, a partial drain and refill resets the water chemistry and makes the coming year's chlorine noticeably more effective. Municipal rules on discharging pool water vary by emirate, so a professional who knows where the water is allowed to go is worth having.
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There is no single correct price for pool cleaning — there is a range, and where you land in it depends on scope and which vendor you pick. The app shows you that range up front.
As a rough guide for pool cleaning: monthly contract, small villa pool, weekly visits around AED 300–500; monthly contract, large pool or twice-weekly summer visits around AED 500–900; one-off deep clean and shock treatment around AED 250–600.
Parts and consumables, where they apply, are quoted separately and approved by you first.
Owners leave for July and August and suspend maintenance to save a month's fee, then return to a green pool that costs more to recover than the paused visits would have. Heat, evaporation and shamal dust make summer exactly the wrong season for a pool to be unattended.
Sparkling water can still be over-stabilised, under-sanitised or corrosively unbalanced. Clarity lags chemistry by days. Insist on seeing actual readings for free chlorine, pH and, in summer, cyanuric acid, rather than accepting a visual all-clear.
Every trichlor tablet adds cyanuric acid that never evaporates. By late summer the pool can be chemically locked, with fine-looking chlorine readings and dull, unsafe water. Dilution with fresh water is the only exit, which is far easier planned in November than forced in August.
Twice a week from June to September is the sensible standard for a used pool, because chlorine burn-off and dust load double the workload. In the cooler months a single weekly visit is usually enough. Pools under heavy use, or under trees or construction dust, may need more.
Salt gives steadier day-to-day water quality and softer-feeling water, but hot summers and hard fill water shorten cell life and demand pre-season descaling. Tablets are cheaper to run but progressively over-stabilise the pool with cyanuric acid. Both work here; both still need a technician.
Every two to three years is realistic in the UAE, shorter than the generic three-to-five-year advice, because dust load and near-continuous running degrade the bed faster. If backwashing no longer restores normal pressure, the media is due. Glass media typically lasts longer and resists channelling.
Mechanical measures only: run the pump and water features overnight to shed heat, shade part of the surface, add aeration on the returns, or fit a chiller sized to the pool volume. No chemical lowers water temperature, and 36-degree water is also harder to keep sanitised.
The owners' association or the facilities management company, funded through your service charges, under municipal public-pool rules such as Dubai Municipality's testing and safety requirements. Your private plunge pool inside a townhouse plot is almost never covered by that contract and needs its own arrangement.
Yes — Al Nahda Sharjah 1 is covered across Sharjah, with vendors who regularly work the area. Availability shows live in the app.
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