After seasons, maybe even years, of family parties and rendezvous around the pool, you may have noticed your backyard losing its sparkle. Don’t worry; there is hope. Updating and renewing your pool can have a huge impact. It can be Read More …
Category: Pool Guy – Bonus Material
Working With Water
Do you love to be in the water? Are you the person who can’t wait to open your pool as soon as it’s remotely warm enough? Why not put your passion to good use and create a career around something Read More …
Scary Black Spots in the Swimming Pool: Black Algae
How to avoid the awful black spot this summer It’s first warm day of spring. You go outside, bursting with excitement, and are imagining your first plunge in your refreshing, clear blue pool water. Then all of a sudden, as Read More …
The Necessity of Swimming
New research is showing swimming helps children reach intellectual milestones Learning how to swim is a milestone in itself; however, did you know swimming can help your children develop intellectually? The skill of swimming is essential and also potentially life-saving. Read More …
Celebratory Dinner with fellow Pool Professionals: A Pool Girl’s Perspective
Atlantic City Thurs. 1/30/14 It is Thursday morning in Atlantic City, and while more walking around the expo is still ahead, the four of us are still on a natural high from last night. We were invited to a dinner Read More …
Keeping Your (Southern/Un-Winterized) Pool Healthy in the Winter Months
How to keep your pool properly chlorinated in the winter Most people think winter months=less pool maintenance. While that may be true, your pool still needs attention and care in the winter months just as much as it needs in Read More …
The Challenge: A Pool Girl’s Perspective
Atlantic City /Tuesday 1/28/14 I write this riding in a car, almost four hours into an eleven hour drive, to Atlantic City for the Northeast Pool and Spa Show. There are four of us in the car this morning: Al, Read More …
Messy Minerals
Mineral Imbalance Nothing is worse than preparing for a summer get-together and finding your pool a strange shade of brown or green. Sometimes when you chlorinate your pool your water can react strangely. This is nothing out of the ordinary, Read More …