Pool Maintenance in Mudon

Mudon's detached villas aren't apartment pools or standard standalone villa pools. Most of these 3-6BR homes in Arabella and Mudon Al Ranim have their pool tucked tight against a garden wall, with the pump room squeezed into a corner where there's barely room to swing a filter lid. The bigger issue is the AC condensate. Every one of those split units drips into the same drainage line near the pool deck, so what looks like a pool leak is often condensate runoff you'll trace back to a clogged drain. We test with a titration kit for pH, free chlorine, total alkalinity, calcium hardness and cyanuric acid — Mudon's summer sun burns off chlorine fast, and stabiliser creeps past 60ppm if nobody's watching it.

The multi-phase build here means Arabella 1 pools from 2015 sit beside Al Ranim stock from 2023, and they don't age the same way. Older sand filters need backwashing almost weekly in July, while newer cartridge units in Mudon Views just need a rinse. Salt chlorinator cells scale up badly with hard water — that's a 45-minute clean, not a swap. Standard weekly visits run AED 350–450/month with chemicals in. We don't do shared compound pools; those need a committee proposal, and honestly, the plumbing coordination with neighbours on semi-detached stacks is a headache we'd rather flag upfront than pretend it's simple.

A standard villa pool in Mudon runs AED 350–450 a month, and that covers a weekly visit on a fixed day with chemicals included. You'll get the water tested properly — titration kits for pH, free chlorine, total alkalinity, calcium hardness and cyanuric acid, not just a dip strip. Then skimming, wall and floor brushing, vacuuming, basket clearing, a backwash or cartridge clean, pump current and filter pressure checks. Every visit ends with a WhatsApp report showing before and after readings. A weekly visit takes about 45 minutes on a normal pool, longer if it's been sitting green.

Some jobs sit outside the monthly fee. Filter sand replacement is AED 500–800 every 5–7 years. An acid wash with full drain and refill is AED 1,500–3,000 depending on staining and pool size. Shock treatment for green water is quoted separately because it depends how far it's gone.

Here's the honest bit — we can't fix everything on a weekly visit. If your pump or light has failed, that's a repair job with its own cost, and we'll tell you before we touch it. In Arabella and the older Al Ranim phases, shared drainage stacks mean some faults need the neighbour involved, which slows things down. We'd rather say that upfront than promise a quick fix.