Category: Pool Tips
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How to take care of your pool after a disaster
Natural disasters can cause a lot of damage to your home and property – especially if you have a pool. After natural disasters it’s common for pools overflow, pool equipment to lose power and to ruin supplies. If you’re a pool owner and have been affected by a natural disaster, follow these four steps to…
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Are you making these 5 hot tub care mistakes?
If you just purchased a hot tub for the cold fall and winter seasons, or are new to hot tub care, you’ll be happy to know that hot tub maintenance can be simple. If you avoid these five common hot tub care mistakes, you’ll save time and hassle: 1. Keeping your hot tub uncovered Keeping your hot tub covered…
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4 Ways to reduce your pool chlorine exposure
Being a low-impact exercise that works the entire body, swimming is a great exercise for all ages and capabilities. While swimming has many healthy benefits for our bodies physically, it can also expose our bodies to dangerous chemicals that’ll harm our digestive and respiratory health. If swimming is a part of your daily or weekly…
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How to take care of a Clear Comfort pool [Download]
The number one question that we hear is, “How will my pool maintenance change with a Clear Comfort system?” Taking care of a Clear Comfort pool is very similar to maintaining a traditional chlorinated or saltwater pool. However, a Clear Comfort system can provide a low-chlorine pool, and it will simplify your day-to-day pool…
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5 pool safety tips every parent should know
Although simple safety pool precautions are obvious to adults, children who are unfamiliar with a pool setting won’t know how to stay safe in or around a pool. If your little one has expressed an interest in swimming for fun or with a swim team, you can help them become a safe swimmer with these five pool…
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How to protect your skin & minimize DBPs while swimming
Did you know that lathering up with sunscreen before jumping in the pool could harm your respiratory health? While you think you’re protecting your skin with sunscreen in the pool, you may also be contributing to toxic disinfection byproducts, or DBPs, creation in the water. There is a common misconception that pool odor and irritation comes from chlorine…
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The Luxury Look: How to Make Your Pool Staycation Worthy
This summer, you can avoid traveling costs, hassles and time by spending your vacation time at home. Instead of investing in a one week vacation, turn your backyard into the perfect staycation destination that you can enjoy year-round. Here are three pool trends that’ll make your backyard worthy of a staycation: 1. Underwater lighting…
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How to overcome Aquaphobia
On average about nine people die from drowning in non-boat related incidents every day in the United States, according the National Safety Council. Parents can keep children safe by always having a supervisor watch them when they’re in or around water, whether that’s a pool, lake, river or bathtub. As children get older, swimming lessons can help them feel…