Cool Pool Warm up for Winter – Solar Panels
Swimming pools are hotting up. Exploit the sun’s natural energy and extend your swimming season with solar panels. Kathryn Alexander tells you how.
Living in sunny areas that get cold and snowy, and even where...
Save Energy & Save Your Environment
Save energy to save money.
Typical mid-income households spend $100 to $200 on electricity every month using between 750 and 1,000 units or kilowatt-hours (kWh). Source: http://www.eia.gov/electricity/ Most households could easily save 20–30 percent of...
How to Understand Pool Terminology
Pool-Speak - Pool Terminology 101
What Those Words & Phrases Mean.
Does pool terminology sound like gobbledygook to you when you are discussing anything about your pool or spa with your pool guy or supplier? Well...
Troubleshooting Your Spa
Troubleshooting For Spas.
Having a problem with your spa? This table will give you the possible problem and description with the cause and then offer a solution.
Keys to Healthy, Clean Water Management
These are the Key points to a Healthy, Clean Water Management.
These outlines, in simple terms, are the steps necessary to ensure that your swimming pool has healthy, clean water and remains sparkling clear all...
How Pool Owners Can Save Water
How to save Water and Avoid Costly Water Bills This Summer.
It pays pool owners to save water. Not only will you be doing your bit for conservation, but you will also prevent costly water...
Water Analysis Goes High-tech
A well balanced pool with clean, clear, sparkling water that mirrors the sea and the sky on a bright sunny day. A hand packed concrete construction.
High-tech Water Analysis for Your Pool
Kathryn Alexander discovers...
The Salt of the Earth
As if inspired by the sea, a salt water chlorinator helps keep this stunning rim flow swimming pool fresh and sparkling clean all year round. Hand packed concrete construction lined with fiberglass.
Salt Water Pools...
How To Keep a Clean Pool
A beautiful sparkling clean pool ready for fun. A properly maintained pool will always be a source of relaxation and pleasure. This stunning pool was constructed using the handpacked concrete method and finished with...
Understand Stabilized Chlorine and Chlorine Lock
Myths of Pool Care and What You Need to Know About
Stabilised Chlorine and Chlorine Lock
For swimming pool water to be hygienically safe for swimmers, it must be properly sanitized. Chlorine, available in different forms, remains...
Keep Your Pool Water Clean With a Test Kit
Ten Minutes a Week is all it Takes to
Keep Your Swimming Pool Water Clean
with a Test Kit
To the new pool owner, terminology like pH, calcium hardness, total alkalinity (TA) and chlorine residual might suggest the...
Pleasures of a Hot Spa Soak
Tips to Ensure Your Hot Spa is Always
Ready to Give You a Soothing Soak
Studies show that most people wish they had more time in the day to relax. Unwinding in a spa is the perfect way...
Pool Heating Options
Choose Your Pool and Spa Heating Options
Although swimming pools generally contain cold water which may or may not be heated, a hot water spa will always contain heated water. Most spas are fitted with electric...
Turn on the Heat: Solar Heating for Your Pool
The Secrets of Solar Heating
In a country where the sun shines long and hot, it makes sense to exploit the natural heat of the sun, not only to heat the water in our homes,...
