Poolside Improvement Quick Tips

Tips and Tricks

Whether you’ve owned your Alaglas pool for decades or are new to experiencing the fun of swimming right in your own back yard, you want it to feel like it’s yours. The specific touches you add can do wonders to personalize your swim environment. Here are...

Metal Stains in your Pool?

Tips and Tricks

Many people first find out that they have metals in their water when unsightly stains appear. Metal stains most commonly appear shortly after the PH is raised or when you add chlorine. Organic stains can sometimes look similar to metal stains, but are typically left...

Swim Games Explained, Part II

Pool Cleaning Tips

When the summer sun is at its brightest, the swimming capacity is usually at its fullest. Kids and adults alike love to dive into a clean and refreshing pool to play and to cool off. Often the younger people will participate in swim games to add extra fun to the swim...

Swim Games Explained, Part I

Pool Cleaning Tips

If you ever were a kid around water or have simply visited a swimming pool in the last decade, chances are you have heard kids yelling the words, “Marco” and “Polo.” The games kids (and sometimes adults too, depending on the atmosphere and the...

Maintaining Clean Pool Water

Salt Water Pool

When the rays of the sun hit the top of your swimming pool water, the sparkle and shine combine for an amazing and beautiful scene within your backyard. Pools, however, require maintenance and attention throughout the swim season to ensure everything looks great and...

Summer Safety Tips

Tips and Tricks

On a hot summer day, few things can beat a refreshing dip in your personal swimming pool. All the fun can quickly end, however, if the right caution, common sense and safety practices are not taken into account. Let’s look at some pool safety issues to ensure...

Better Performance from Swimming Pool Pumps

Pool Pumps

Pumps are probably low on the list of things people love to window shop for. When it’s time to look for a replacement or upgrade, the informed consumer makes better choices. This is particularly true when shopping for any of the three general types of swimming...

What exactly is a Salt Water Pool?

Salt Water Pool

Since 1948, chlorine has been used to sanitize pools. If you went swimming and opened your eyes underwater, you could expect them to sting, your skin to itch and your bathing suit to eventually fall apart from chlorine exposure. Chances are, those with blond hair...

Light Colored Fiberglass Pool vs Dark Colored

Fiberglass Pool

Fiberglass pools are available in a wide variety of colors these days. I remember when your only choices were white. However, I have to say I’m pleased that we now have so many colors to chose from because the lack of colors was often time a sticking point with...