Tracy’s Tips: Get the Most Out of Your Skimmer

Tracy’s Tips: Get the Most Out of Your Skimmer

When the time comes to open your pool and put the cover away for the season, here are a few tips to help maintain the integrity of your cover while in storage. Make sure your pool cover is completely dry before storing. Most safety covers are mesh, and can be folded and put in the mesh […]

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Tracy’s Tips: How Often Should a Pool Filter Run?

Tracy’s Tips: How Often Should a Pool Filter Run?

The long and short of it is this, you theoretically could run your pool/filter pump 24/7, the entire time your pool is open. However, doing so would not only be costly and use a great deal of energy, it would also be completely unnecessary. We recommend that you run your pool filter for at least […]

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Tracy’s Tips: Pool Cover Storage

Tracy’s Tips: Pool Cover Storage

When the time comes to open your pool and store the cover for the season, here are a few tips to help maintain its integrity while in storage. First, when you remove the cover, we find it helpful to remove and lubricate the deck anchors before putting them back in the ground.  This preserves the […]

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Tracy’s Tips: When does hiring a pool maintenance company make sense?

Tracy’s Tips: When does hiring a pool maintenance company make sense?

As a pool owner, you know that a considerate amount of work comes before, during and after the fun pool activities. Is that work overwhelming you and hindering your enjoyment? Do you dread the heavy lifting and continuous maintenance your pool requires? We encourage our customers to weigh the pros and cons of hiring a […]

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Tracy’s Tips: Leaf Nets for Tarp Covers

Tracy’s Tips: Leaf Nets for Tarp Covers

When the time comes to open your pool and put the cover away for the season, here are a few tips to help maintain the integrity of your cover while in storage. Make sure your pool cover is completely dry before storing. Most safety covers are mesh, and can be folded and put in the mesh […]

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Tracy’s Tips: Washing Your Polaris Bag for Winter Storage

Tracy’s Tips: Washing Your Polaris Bag for Winter Storage

When the time comes to open your pool and put the cover away for the season, here are a few tips to help maintain the integrity of your cover while in storage. Make sure your pool cover is completely dry before storing. Most safety covers are mesh, and can be folded and put in the mesh […]

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Tracy’s Tips: Avoiding Green Summer Hair

Tracy’s Tips: Avoiding Green Summer Hair

If your hair color is on the lighter side, you may have experienced it turning a green tint after spending a lot of time in your pool. The culprit is mainly copper and chlorine. Pools filled with well water are particularly susceptible to an overabundance of copper. Copper can also get into your pool water […]

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Automatic Chlorinators: A Must Have for Pool Owners

Automatic Chlorinators: A Must Have for Pool Owners

Chlorine is a vital tool used by most pool owners to sanitize pool water. There are a few ways to dispense the chlorine into your pool, but an automatic chlorinator takes the hassle and headache out of handling chlorine. An automatic chlorinator (also called a chemical feeder) is your best bet when it comes to […]

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Tracy’s Tips: DIY Pool Toy Organizer

Tracy’s Tips: DIY Pool Toy Organizer

DIY Pool Organization Pallets Does your collection of floats and toys seem to grow more and more each pool season? Keep your floats, towels, noodles, goggles and more neat and tidy with this fun DIY pool toy organizer project. Use a recycled natural wood pallet (stay away from ones that may have been chemically treated) […]

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