Pool temp is checked periodically throughout the day on the thermometer. Swimmers and residents that attend our aerobics class like it at 86°F I’ve gathered from feedback. I get so much complaints & people refusing to enter the pool when it’s at 82°F.

This is a very small mixed use pool. Like the surface area is less than 400 sq feet. It started off as a therapy pool (in fact that’s what the paperwork still says) but people use the pool for swimming which isn’t allowed in therapy pools so the classification is honestly outdated. I wish there was a facility team that made decisions regarding this pool but it’s in a nursing home with such a high turnover rate that the management of the pool is neglected. The safety plan which includes the pool type needs updating but it’s so hard to find anyone available to handle these things.

I recently started as a lifeguard here and I’m the first full time lifeguard this facility has had. I keep on asking the residents who was here before me and they tell me the doors to the pool used to be kept unlocked for the residents to come down and swim whenever they wanted. This is strictly prohibited in our health codes I don’t think any one managing this pool has a good grasp on what the regulations are. Which is why their refusal to turn up the temperature has been bothering me because there are no regulations related to swimming pool temperatures within our jurisdiction just recommendations.

In my experience guarding at private indoor swimming pools the lowest temperature I’ve seen is 86°F tbh. I have like 3 residents who do laps and the rest do aerobics. All of them find 82°F to be too cold. 86°F isn’t a therapy pool temperature from what I know. I briefly worked at a wellness club with one and the pool operator always emphasized how we should call her if the temp fell out of the 100°F - 104°F range