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Many pool owners are currently concerned with the carcinogenic aspects of pool sanitation as described in newspaper article around the country. These articles, written on the subject of cancer causing sanitizers, claim high doses of chlorine could possibly be detrimental to the health of your family. What may not be evident now could in later life cause severe health anomalies. Therefore it is important to find a pool service professional who is knowledgeable concerning alternative aspects of pool sanitation, and further, one who has the requisite knowledge to test your current swimming pool water for proper sanitation. A pool service professional is more than just a pool cleaner. A pool service professional can save you money in unnecessary pool equipment repairs and can also save you unnecessary medical expenses due to poor water quality. I recently encountered a pool owner who asked me why his pool deck was uneven. After asking him a couple of questions, the culprit was obvious. The deck was uneven because he had failed to keep the mastic around the pool, the sealer that separates the pool from the deck, from cracking. Water had seeped under the deck and destroyed the integrity of the pool foundation. His repair bill will be in the thousands. This repair could have been a few hundred dollars if he had retained the services of a pool service professional and weekly scheduled service. The cost of a pool service professional is more than offset by the money saved in unnecessary expenditures. It is important to have a healthy family and a full pocketbook. A good pool service professional can help you achieve both.


Child Safety is a Big Issue, When Life is Important:
There are many new laws approaching vote in your state house of representatives. These laws affect your rights and the safety of your children. Every homeowner and commercial customer should be aware of the safety issues concerning their swimming pool, but many are not, and some take these safety issues too lightly. These are the individuals, say lawmakers, who make new laws necessary. Many accidents occur unnecessarily because of carelessness. Every swimming pool should be secured behind a locked structure. While almost every pool is fenced, we still lose children because of unlocked gates and doors. It is not enough to have a lock on the gate if your child has access to the pool through your backdoor. It is not enough to have a lock on your gate if the gate remains unlocked. You can take the following steps to help arrest these unnecessary accidents:
1. Make sure your gate is locked.
2.Purchase a motion alarm for each door that exit s to your pool.
3. Purchase a motion alarm for your pool.
4. Place a secondary fence around your pool. In some states a secondary fence is mandatory. Motion alarms for your exit doors activate when the door is opened.
Motion alarms for your pool activate when the water tension is broken by someone falling into the swimming pool. Secondary structures are fences that keep children Keep Our Future Safe already in the backyard from having access to the swimming pool. These items should help reduce or eliminate unnecessary accidents and they are a great investment in your family. Spring is a wonderful time of the year. In addition to all the wonders of nature, the rains, the flowers, the warm sun, it is also swim season, and with swim season comes some of those necessary chores. As disgusting as it may sound, rats build nests in your heater and they can cause heater problems or heater failure. It is important to have the proper start-up performed on your equipment before the season begins. Some helpful hints for the beginning of swim season: 1. Have your water tested for stabilizer. Stabilizer helps to protect chlorine from the sun and helps aid in water sanitation. 2. Make sure your equipment is in good running order. 3. Have your filter cleaned by a professional. 4. Replace your filter pressure gauge. There are many other services that can be performed prior to the start of swim season to help prevent unexpected costs. Purchase a variable flow pump to reduce your energy costs and improve your pool circulation during the Month of March, and receive 50% off installation. Wouldn't it be great if we lived in a perfect pool world where our energy bills for pool operation were less and we had lots of disposable income to take a trip, buy a new car or just put it in the bank for a rainy day? Wait a minute. We do live in a perfect pool world. Well, nearly perfect. Did you know if your pool sports a single-speed pump, and you purchase a dual speed pump, you could decrease your yearly energy consumption and reduce your energy costs associated with the filtration of your pool by as much as 75%? Did you know if you replaced your pressure pool cleaner with a certain robotic pool cleaner you could reduce your energy consumption and reduce your energy costs associated with the pool cleaner by as much as 94%? Did you know it can cost as much as $500.00 a month to heat an average backyard pool with an inefficient heater? Did you know with an energy efficient heater you can reduce your energy costs associated with heating your pool by as much as 80%? With the energy savings associated with an energy efficient heater nearly everyone could heat their pool to their desired temperature. Today there are many people talking about going green and reducing our carbon footprint. Many people believe going green is the only way to save the earth for our children and grandchildren. Whether you believe in energy conservation or not, it is our duty to bring these green alternatives to your attention, and the savings associated with these green alternatives, and let you decide for yourself if going green makes sense for you and your family. Keep Our Future Safe If you decide to go green, you can go a little green or you can go big. The best course of action, before you make a decision, is to determine the cost and the savings associated with the change. If you have any questions on going green, or how much you can save each year on your pool operation by going green, please contact us at the above number. We look forward to making your pool experience as pleasurable and as cost friendly as possible. Did you know we can approximate how much money you will save on energy each year when you replace your old equipment with new energy efficient equipment? Did you know, if your swimming pool now sports a 1hp single speed pump, and you purchase a new dual speed pump, you can pay yourself back in as little as five months? Did you know if you run your pool approximately 6 hours each day you could save approximately $454.66 a year after paying back the cost of the energy efficient pump? If you have a larger single speed pump the savings can be even greater. Going green can be great for the environment, but it is also great for your wallet. Many of you are aware of the Virginia Graeme Baker Act passed by congress to protect children in commercial swimming pool settings, but there is a way you can protect children in their backyard. In past issues we discussed different ways to keep children from sneaking into the pool when supervision is unavailable. 1. Motion alarms on all doors and gates leading to the pool area. 2. A secondary fence around the pool. 3. A motion alarm in the pool. While these are great protection devises, sometimes they are not enough. There is a great way to protect your children from the possibility of injury when you are present and everything seems innocuous. Replacing your current main drain cover with a larger drain cover can help reduce or eliminate the horrendous accidents that can occur when a child is trapped by the main drain and cannot break free. A compliant anti-entrapment drain cover spreads the suction over a larger area and makes the possibility of entrapment very unlikely. The newly designed and affordable compliant anti-entrapment drain covers are easily retrofitted to existing drains and are instrumental in the effort to prevent future devastating injuries and drowning deaths. There are numerous things one can do to help protect children who are playing in a backyard swimming pool. However, nothing is more effective than the Keep Our Future Safe guidelines established by congress for commercial pools. If you are interested in receiving a quote on replacing your current main drain cover, with an anti entrapment cover, please contact the office and we will be happy to assist. Meanwhile please make sure to keep children away from the main drain and design rules for their protection. Our motto is: "Safety first and everything else second." It is time to reduce pool equipment operational hours if they have not already been reduced. Since the weather is becoming cooler algae and other bacteria have a more difficult time breeding in your pool water. There are three things that affect the running time of your pool equipment: 1. The angle of the sun 2. Cooler days and nights 3. Cooler water Because of these natural occurrences we are able to reduce the running time of your pool equipment and this saves energy and money. Please do not change your timer. Every pool is a little different and the running time for one pool may not be the appropriate running for another. Remember, we still have water that needs to be circulated to prevent insect infestation and to filter out other items that can cause damage to your pool and health issues for your family. Winter is here and most of the leaves have fallen, but we still suffer unwanted debris in our pool because of the wind and winter weather. The wind is a damaging nemesis. The wind can deposit material into your pool that can threaten the integrity of your swimming pool water and the very health of your family. A change in water chemistry, due to this debris, can also cause plaster damage and unnecessary equipment repairs. It is important to get this debris out of your pool as soon as possible following high wind or an extreme storm. After a service call, if you see the wind or weather has again deposited some unwanted item in your pool, if it is easy to extract, please remove this debris to protect the integrity of your pool water and to eliminate any health issues. We have found lawn chairs, tree branches, stuffed animals, real animals and just about everything you can imagine in some of the pools we service. Some of the items we have found are just toys, but for the same reasons these toys must also be removed when children are finished swimming. Almost any item left in your pool for an extended period of time can damage your pool and add additional cost to its ownership.