Pond maintenance is an ongoing process. What you do, or do not do, this season will most certainly affect your pond next season. We have seen this first hand here at Sanco. We have a division of Sanco that provides pond service to area ponds, Pond Champs. We have had several Pond Champs customers that we service sign on with us with a pond that is overgrown. After a season of our techs coming out every 14-18 days and diligently treating the pond by applying pond dye & beneficial pond bacteria, controlling algae growth, killing submerged weeds, killing cattails and keeping the rock area around the pond free of weeds. The following season the pond is unrecognizable…in a good way! All the hard work and pond maintenance our tech put forth the year before resulted in a beautiful pond the following season. Now, we are still coming out every 14-18 days to maintain the healthy, beautiful appearance.
These same pond owners will sometimes choose to not sign up for our service the following year. We encourage them to reconsider and always try to give them advice on self-treatment because we know that pond maintenance is an ongoing process. Once a customer chooses to cancel our service for a season 9 out of 10 of those customers will end up calling us back 2 seasons later to sign back up. Why 2 seasons later? The first season without our service the pond remains fairly healthy because of the hard work of our tech the season before. The next season is another story…the hard work our techs put into the pond has faded and the minimal work the pond owner did comes to a head resulting in a call to Pond Champs to resign up for service.
Think of pond maintenance like a cycle…this illustration will give you a visual of what will happen when pond owners slack on their pond maintenance from one season to another.
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