Tools for Cleaning a Pool Screen Enclosure

Series Summary

No one want leaves or other debris in their pool. In fact some people go to great lengths to avoid this unfortunate scenario, with covers, tarps, etc. But you've gone and build an entire screen enclosure to keep all of the junk off of your pool. The enclosure works great for the pool itself, but the screens accumulate all of the leaves that would have ended up in the water. So every once in a while you have to clean the enclosure as well.

In this free series of pool maintenance videos, our expert will tell you how to clean the screen surrounding your swimming area. He begins with an overview of the tools you will need for the job, then gives you tips on how to safely and effectively brush off the screens. Learn ladder safety in these videos, and how to clean the exposure without damaging the screen. Our expert gives you tips on using a blower to make your job easier and also demonstrates how to repair small holes in the screens.

Video Transcript

"I'm here with Expert Village today to teach you how to clean a screen enclosure. A typical bird cage enclosure of a swimming area. From time to time through storms and also just the change of seasons you are going to accumulate areas of leaves, pine needles. Although it is very difficult to get all of the needles off and everything, from time to time a basic cleaning is a must to prevent the debris from accumulating. The easiest way to get started is to use a pool brush. The normal pool brush that you use to for the edge of your pool. This right here is your normal shampooer. When you disconnect the pool vacuum cleaner and attach the pool brush, it is very important to use the pool brush because what you do is get up on the roof. The easiest and the safest way is to get up on the roof, clean from top to bottom. We would be using the pool brush to help push the pine needles and the pine straws off of the top of that out to that side. Then we would grab a ladder. We already have a ladder set up here where once we push the stuff so far. Then we would use a pulling motion to pull the debris the rest of the way. After that we would use a blower to blow off any of the extra because as we work from top to bottom, we would clean the top and then we would clean the bottom. "