The Uses and Benefits of Enzyme Based Swimming Pool Chemicals By: Brian Barker Every swimming pool owner wants a clean and safe swimming pool, but no one wants to use a lot of harsh chemicals. Chlorine is the only true sanitizer, capable of killing harmful bacteria on contact, and is therefore necessary to maintain pool water. Although chlorine shouldn't be eliminated, this harsh pool chemical can be significantly reduced, and still maintain safe and clean pool water, through the use of enzyme based pool chemicals...
So, You Want to Swim Laps at Home By: TC Thorn Whether you grew up on a swim team or came to lap swimming later in life, you know what great exercise the sport is. Swimming can not only provide a cardiovascular workout, but it tones muscles as well. And, of course, it burns calories.....
Shark Attack Predictions for 2006 By: Lance Winslow In 2005 we saw many shark attacks and it appears that this is an increasing and an alarming trend for surfers, beach go'ers and parents alike. Some believe that the warmer waters are causing these pre-historic and quite well adapted and evolved predators to seek food closer to shore...
Pool Safety Includes Kids Knowing How to Swim By: Gregory Fort As we go through life it is amazing how many people you meet that never learned how to swim. If these parents ever accompany their children to swimming pools or lakes, they do not have the skills to save their own child. Teaching children to swim should be mandatory, and is, if you own a pool...
Swimming Pool Pump Energy Savings By: Gregory Fort When you bought your swimming pool, you knew the summer fun involved additional costs. First in line is the cost of the pool. Next there are the maintenance and pool chemicals. Then you received your summer electric bills...
Got the Baquacil Blues? By: Rob Coxworth The Baquacil sanitizing system can cause problems in some swimming pools. The article describes an effective, inexpensive way to convert a Baquacil pool back to chlorine sanitizing...