How Can a Patio Heater Extend Your Outdoor Entertainment Season?
Outdoor Patio Heaters: If you love entertaining outdoors in your own backyard, you know how inclusive, fun and rewarding it can be. And if you have a heated pool and hot tub, your outdoor entertainment options are even more versatile. But with the chillier fall nights on the way, you may be looking at ways…
Read MoreYour Swimming Pool Will be the Safest Place to Play This Summer
Your Swimming Pool Will be the Safest Place to Play This Summer With stay-at-home orders persisting into the foreseeable future all over the country due to COVID-19, more and more people are looking for relaxing and entertaining ways to enjoy their yards. Putting in a swimming pool is one great way to do that. Who…
Read MoreNo Travel Required: Vacation Safely in Your Backyard
No Travel Required: Vacation Safely in Your Backyard – If you love to relax and kick back during the summer but don’t want to hassle with booking a plane, making hotel reservations and jockeying for position on a crowded beach, there’s a better way: stay home! When you outfit your backyard with all the summer essentials…
Read MoreVinyl Liner Repair
After several years your liner can lose its elasticity, causing it to be more susceptible to tearing. Accelerators of this loss of elasticity include improper water balance and sun damage. Sun damage is tough to avoid, but many times improper water balance could have been avoided, causing your liner to last longer. Tearing many…
Read MoreSwimming Pools: Eye, Skin & Hair Care
As we enjoy swimming pools this summer, we will possibly be faced with eye & skin irritation, sunburn, and hair discoloration. The following is information to help prevent some of these problems from occurring. Eye & Skin Irritation What causes this eye & skin irritation? We have been raised hearing the phrase “too much…
Read MoreSelecting A Swimming Pool Builder
There are many good pool builders in the Dallas/ Fort Worth Metroplex area. Choosing the right one for you is important. You can rid yourself of a car that is a “lemon”, but you are stuck with a poo that is a “lemon”. If you cannot afford the type of pool or the builder of…
Read MoreSalt Water Swimming Pools
Customers often have a plethora of inquiries regarding the concept of a saltwater pool system. Questions like, “I’m allergic to chlorine, is a saltwater pool chlorine-free?” and “Are saltwater pools more expensive than regular pools?” can be answered in the following paragraphs. A saltwater pool does not completely differ from…
Read MorePool Stains
Most every pool owner has experienced pool staining at one time or another. Stains are usually either organic or metallic in nature. Organic stains develop when leaves, pecans, or the like, sit on the pool floor for an extended period of time. Metallic stains typically occur when the pH becomes too low, corroding the heater…
Read MorePolaris Troubleshooting
An automated pool cleaner is a vacuum cleaner intended to collect debris and sediment from swimming pools with minimal human intervention. There are several brands of these automatic cleaners, but the most common, and the one that we carry, is called a Polaris. In addition, there are several different models of Polaris pool cleaners, but…
Read MorePhosphates
What are phosphates? Phosphates are pollutants, which provide a constant food source for algae. hat causes high phosphate levels? There are many causes oh high phosphate levels, which includes: Rain Fertilizer Swimmer waste Decaying vegetation Municipal water Cosmetic items on bathers Other pool chemicals Phosphates can contaminate your pool anytime any of…
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