During swim season, it’s important to keep up on routine pool maintenance tasks, so you can appreciate your swimming pool throughout the summer months. Failing to faithfully perform these tasks could lead to needed repairs and — possibly worse — reduced swim time. In Part 1, we looked at two daily tasks: Skimming and Scrubbing. […]
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Summertime Swimming Pool Maintenance, Part 1
It’s the peak of pool season, and you’re enjoying plenty of fun in the sun. Now is not the time to relax, though, when it comes to swimming pool maintenance. If you do, you will probably regret it, and failing to spend just a few minutes each day and a few more each week could […]
Poolside Safety: Protecting Your Skin Against Sun Damage, Part 3
Over the past 35 years, Melanoma skin cancer rates have actually tripled. Sunscreen helps reduce your risk of acquiring this deadly disease. While we hope we’ve convinced you that according to scholarly research, using sun screen certainly doesn’t increase your chances of getting skin cancer, certain factors can definitely make sun screen more effective in […]
Poolside Safety: Protecting Your Skin Against Sun Damage, Part 2
While skin damage is certainly not something reserved only for those with backyard swimming pools, those who frequent the pool can certainly be at increased risk for Melanoma as well as other types of skin cancer and types of sun damage, due to increased time out in the sun combined with the reflective properties of […]
Poolside Safety: Protecting Your Skin Against Sun Damage, Part 1
There’s no doubt about it: installing your own backyard swimming pool is an excellent option for those wanting to accommodate — or encourage — a healthy lifestyle, both for themselves and for their friends and family members. However, in addition to other hazards, such as drowning and other water-related injuries and risks, spending extra time […]
Ready, Set, Jump into the Pool: Swimwear Tips and Tricks, Part 3
Proper swimwear care isn’t complicated — but it is important. In our last post, we looked at the first two steps: Rinse and Treat. Now we’ll look at the other three: Wash, Dry, and Rest. Let’s count off all five for review before we move on: Rinse, Treat, Wash, Dry, Rest. Wash. Once you arrive […]
Ready, Set, Jump into the Pool: Swimwear Tips and Tricks, Part 2
Selecting quality swimwear and reducing your swimwear’s exposure to various harmful elements are certainly important (see Part 1); however, so is how you care for your swimwear. Particularly after wearing swimwear in chlorinated water, caring for it properly will increase the lifetime of those garments, leaving you more time to enjoy your swimming pool and […]
Ready, Set, Jump into the Pool: Swimwear Tips and Tricks, Part 1
As a swimming pool owner, you’re likely to get a lot more use out of your swimwear than most people! As exciting as that may be, you’ll want to allow for that added swimwear use by choosing, accommodating, and treating your swimwear well. You may not realize it, but all kinds of elements — including […]
Extra Perks of Having Your Own Swimming Pool
We’re sure you’ve already realized or read about a few key perks of owning your own pool. But there are probably a few more you haven’t even thought of yet! Better Sanitation for Your Family When you do the math, having your own pool might not seem like it stacks up against a membership to […]
Will a Backyard Swimming Pool Make You Happy?
Happiness. We may differ about what constitutes or contributes to it, but undoubtedly it’s at the core of what all of us humans desire. So it’s helpful to consider our lifestyle choices and major purchases in light of whether they’re likely to contribute to our happiness. Despite the widespread culture of consumerism and materialism, a […]
