Traditionally the walls of a vinyl liner in ground swimming pools are made out of 14 gauge G35 galvanized steel. These walls are made up of several individual panels that get bolted together to create the overall form of the pool. This is the way that vinyl liner in ground swimming pools have...
There have been some significant technological advancements in the swimming pool industry within the last 10 or so years. These advancements have made products better and allowed pool owners more time to just enjoy their pools. One of these advancements comes in the form of the underwater light for your pool. Years ago there...
There is an ongoing mindset that bigger and more is better. In almost every aspect of American life people strive to have the biggest and the best. We do this with our cars, houses, and swimming pools as well as food portions. We have extra large sodas, plates of food that we couldn’t, or...
As technology gets better and better, automation is getting more and more prevalent in the swimming pool world. Leading the swimming pool automation industry is Zodiac Pool Systems. Zodiac offers several different types of automation for your pool to make life easier and more enjoyable. Although they offer a couple different systems, today I...
Paramount Swing Sweep Plumbing There are some things that as the customer, you may not know about your pool. The more bells and whistles you have on the pool the more there is that you will likely not know. I think that it is important for...
Rough start Well most of us know that this past winter was exceptionally harsh. Here in northern Indiana we had temperatures close to – 30 degrees F, not to mention thigh deep snow or more for most of the winter. I think the thing that made it seem even worse than that was the...
Swimming pool safety is probably the single most important part about owning a pool. After all, the fun of owning a pool goes away if it is not safe. Even though I consider my pool safe I am always on alert when I have people over. Especially if those people include kids. I have...
So lets say you got yourself a brand new vinyl liner in ground pool, and along with that pool you got the standard sand filter with a top mount multi port valve. These valves will typically have several different settings. You may know that each setting does something different but you are just not...
Summer time is almost over 🙁 … I know that there wasn’t much of one anyway. On the other hand we did have some good days for swimming. Here in the northern states people will be thinking about closing their pools in the next few weeks. I know it seems like this summer has...
