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Sell Them the Right Filter

The pros and cons of the main types of pool filters — sand, diatomaceous earth (D.E.), and cartridge.

Sand filters, while often preferred for pools with high dirt loads, take up more space on a typical equipment pad and are less hydraulically efficient than other types of filters. This job uses both a sand filter (for the pool) and a cartridge filter (for laminar-style water features). (photos courtesy Rick Chafey | Red Rock Pools)

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Borates: Once Per Year

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Once per year, Haviland reminds you that borates help maintain ideal water quality – and only need to be tested and reapplied once per year.

Borates: Once Per Year

Website Critique: Sonoma Valley Pool and Spa

When Sonoma Valley Pool & Spa re-vamped its website, which went live in early 2010, Jolie Rozema, who co-owns the business with her husband, Saul Rozema, says, ...

Leaking Pipe Responsible For 65,000 Gallons Draining Out Of YMCA Pool

Imagine showing up early Monday morning at your local pool, expecting to take an aquatic exercise class as you usually do, but discovering the pool empty — completely bone dry. This happened to a few ladies earlier this year when they arrived at the Johnstown, Pa., YWCA pool.

Florida Builder Encourages Colleagues To Stop Using Main Drains

Several new devices have come to market recently to deal with the very serious problem of entrapment. Some were mechanical, some were electromechanical. ...

Smaller Pools Selling In The Sunshine State

Sun Fiberglass Products has two manufacturing plants: one in Kentucky and one in Florida. At one time, a lot of the pools that rolled off the line from the Brookfield, Fla., facility stayed close to home.

Website Critique: B & B Pool and Spa

Bruce Bagin, president of B & B Pools & Spas, in Chestnut Ridge, N.Y., says his marketing firm, Marketing Works Now, has a lot to do with the recently redesigned ...

Making Pool Cover Estimates? There's An App For That

Beginning this summer, LOOP-LOC dealers will be able to order products, check estimates and even submit pool measurements for safety covers directly from any mobile device at their jobsite.

The Case For Natural Swimming Pools

Natural swimming pools/ponds (NSPs) began in Europe (actually in Austria) in the early 1980s. The inventor, Werner Gamerith, was awarded the Austrian Government’s Prize for the Connection between Art and Ecology. This was a prescient insight (rare on the part of government IMHO) into the true nature of the NSP (pun intended). The case in favor of the NSP is encapsulated in that insight — it is an artistic leap forward and it is based in the science of limnology.

German Troupe Performs Underwater Opera

This underwater opera tells the story of a young woman looking for the elixir of eternal youth.

New Winter Pool Cover Comes Without Straps

Fiberglass Pool Makers Adding Features To Better Compete With Vinyl

Asked to assess the difficulties facing fiberglass pool manufacturers and dealers, Curt Prystupa, president and founder of Sun Fiberglass Products, relates a story that's ...

How To Accurately Measure And Fit A Pool Cover

In the past decade, the pool builder's art has been lifted to new heights, as more projects have come to include fancy rockwork, waterfalls, vanishing edges, free-form shapes, ...

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