Your New Pool – The Best 4 Types
A fiberglass pool that is ideal for any smaller property. A New Pool – Decisions Decisions… Making the Right Choice Having taken the plunge and decided to build a new…
7 Ideas On 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…
Pool With the Best Views in Hollywood – 10 Pix
This Pool Certainly Has The Best Views In Hollywood Undoubtedly a pool that boasts some of the best views in Hollywood, this stunning design is located in Holmby Hills, Los…
Soak Your Cares Away in a Hot Water Spa – 6 Ideas
Above: The best of both worlds. Natural hot springs are channeled into a series of handpacked concrete pools; a ramp at one end of the pool allows bathers safe and…
Understand Stabilized Chlorine and Chlorine Lock – 4 Myths
A beautiful well balanced healthy clean pool ready for fun. A pool that is properly maintained with the right balance of chemicals will always be a source of relaxation and…
Landscaping Around Your Pool – 10 Ideas
Above: Pretty plain. Simplicity is the key to successful landscaping around your pool. Here the pool has been positioned close to a wall enclosing the pool area and timber decking used…
Keep Your Pool Water Clean With a Test Kit 10 mins/week
10 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…
Different Pool Color For Your Swimming Pool – 7 Pictures
Dare To Be Different and Make Have a Different Pool Color Instead of the usual blue-hued swimming pool, introduce a different pool color on the inside and allow nature to…
Mammoth Pool Makeover in the Desert – 7 Pictures
Huge Hotel Swimming Pool Makeover in Just Four Days The pool at the elite Royal Mirage Hotel in Dubai was built in 2001 and finished using Cemcrete’s PoolCrete, a brilliant product that…
Lap Pools Will Keep You Healthy – 4 Reasons
With a Lap Pools It’s the length that counts. A 10 m x 2 m, single-depth gunite pool, fits perfectly into a long, narrow garden. Constructed by Suburban Pools, the…
Pleasures of a Hot Tub Spa Soak – 7 Pointers
7 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…
Look After Your Hot Tub Spa Water – 9 Checks
Your Hot Tub Spa Water is Easy to Look After Thinking of installing or building a hot water tub spa? If so, you’ll be pleased to find out that hot…
Drownproofing Babies – 1 Mother’s Story
Safely in the Swim: How I had my Baby Drownproofed by Penny Swift Drownproofing Babies! Many mothers consider their babies and small children to be natural water babies. I know…
Salt Water Chlorination
An Australian Invention Worth It’s Salt This article has been updated in a new article, Who Invented Salt Water Chlorination? By PENNY SWIFT It all began in Len David’s garden shed….
Spa & Pool Heating-4 Options
Choose Your Spa Tub & Pool Heating Options Although swimming pools generally contain cold water which may or may not be heated, a hot water spa will always contain heated…
Turn on the Heat: Solar Heating for Your Pool – 9 Steps
The Secrets of Solar Heating For Your Pool In a country where the sun shines long and hot, it makes sense to exploit the natural heat of the sun, not…
Go Swimming Indoors in Your Living Room
Gracious living. Good looking and built for every season, this indoor pool is warmed with a heat pump. Constructed from handpacked concrete, it features a simple, yet stunning inlay of…
7 Hints for New Swimming Pool Owners
Starting Up a New Swimming Pool – 7 Hints Owning a new swimming pool can be a daunting experience. For months you pondered over what to build and who was…
A Swimming Pool Emergency – 8 Things To Do
Swimming Pool Emergency: the 8 Steps to Follow With a pool emergency the old adage, better safe than sorry is one that swimming pool owners should always remember. Precautions are always essential,…
Avoid Sunburn – Be Safe in the Sun – 6 Ideas
Avoid Sunburn and the Risk of Skin Cancer The burning issue every summer is finding ways to protect our skin from the damaging rays of the sun. In a nutshell this…
Modern Pool Balancing Act
Modern Pool – Perfection on Pylons When Ian and Sally Merrington found an old rundown property in Camps Bay on Cape Town’s Atlantic coastline, they immediately knew they could transform…
Keep Fit in the Water With Pool Aerobics
Above: A pool aerobics class in action (Featured image above courtesy Wikipedia.) An Easy Pool Aerobic Exercise Program to Follow in Your Pool Water exercises, or pool aerobics are one…
Swimming Pool Designs
Above: Not exactly your everyday backyard, but a stunning pool created around and incorporating two huge boulders that were already on site. Swimming Pool Designs for Your Backyard If you…
Build a Gunite Pool
Above: A small, streamlined swimming pool built using gunite Gunite Pools May be Built in Every Shape and Size If you are going to be building a new swimming pool,…
Building a Pool – 4 Pool Construction Methods
Swimming Pool Construction Methods for your First Pool A swimming pool is high on the wish list of most new homeowners, even though building a pool can be a daunting task….