Pool Accessories, Pool Fun

Update Your Swimming Pool In Minutes with Floating Pool Lights

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Bring light and beauty to your pool even in the winter months, with floating pool lights and underwater pool lights.  Enjoy the view of your pool as these lights  illuminate the water, and provide a soft glow creating a comfortable atmosphere around the perimeter of the swimming pool. Swimming pool lights will add that extra style and updated feel to your pool without spending a fortune.  Depending on the look you are going for, there are many styles to choose from.  Some have spinning lights that create a continually changing pattern of light that displays on the bottom and sides of your swimming pool.  Some are solar powered

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while others require batteries.  No matter which style of lighting  you decide on, your evenings around the swimming pool can be extended as you relax and enjoy the atmosphere provided with quality swimming pool lights.

Pool and Spa Equipment

Diving Board Covers Are a Smart Solution

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Protecting your diving board over the long winter months is just as important as protecting the pool itself.  An unprotected diving board can be stained by decaying leaves and debris that fall in autumn, and it can be damaged by accumulations of ice and snow during the winter.  If you’ve ever tried to use tarps and ropes or bungee cords to cover and protect your diving board over the winter, you know the awkward and often unsuccessful challenge that can be.  And, if you’ve ever tried to remove the diving board altogether, you know how much back-breaking work is involved.  Removing a diving board also increases the potential that it will be damaged during transport or while in storage. 

An easy and affordable solution is a diving board cover.  Diving board covers are specially designed to fit snugly around the diving board so it stays protected while not in use.   There’s never a need to remove the diving board from the pool area, and securing the diving board cover to the board is a snap.

Pool and Spa Equipment, Pool Closing and Winterizing

Air Pillows Are a Winter Necessity

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Usually made of heavy-duty vinyl, air pillows are a necessary addition when winterizing your above ground pool.  An air pillow, also known as an ice compensator, goes underneath your winter pool cover to help prevent the freezing and expanding winter pool water from cracking and damaging the walls of your above ground pool.  Air pillows offer the additional advantage of reducing the amount of water, snow, and debris that collect on your winter cover. 

Air pillows for above ground pools are very reasonably priced and are worth every penny if it means saving your pool from winter ice damage.

Pool and Spa Chemicals, Pool and Spa Equipment, Pool Closing and Winterizing

Winterize Your Pool and Save Big

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Did you know that paying a professional pool company to winterize your backyard swimming pool can cost upwards of $500?  With just a few items and a weekend afternoon, you can winterize your own pool for much less and save hundreds, even thousands, of dollars throughout the life of your pool.

By winterizing the swimming pool, you prepare it for long months of sitting untouched.  Because of this, the water must be chemically balanced using winterizing chemicals, which will help prevent corrosion and scale build up over the course of the winter.  Also, the pool must be cleaned of any dirt and debris which may have collected over the swimming season.  Finally, a protective cover should top the pool.  Many home owners choose a winter pool cover for their above ground pool or in ground pool, while others choose to cover the pool all winter with a safety cover.  Growing in popularity are leaf nets, which are mesh covers that go on top of your winter cover or safety cover.  Leaf nets collect a majority of autumn leaves and other debris and make spring clean up a breeze.

Click the links to find detailed instructions for how to winterize your above ground pool or how to winterize your in ground pool.