Par Pool & Spa

Spring Pool Opening - Video

Follow the right steps at Spring Pool Opening to give you & your family an enjoyable swimming season.

 

Easy to follow. Worth the time. Saves time, money & effort.

Natural Pool Products Video

Natural Pool Products line of "natural pool products" is a group like no other on the market.

Naturally based pool water enhancing products (or chemicals if you really insist...) that are proven to make dramatic changes to the way you operate and sanitize your swimming pool.

 

For product details & information on all of the Natural Pool Products, please click here

Winter Pool Prep

When closing your swimming pool for the season, it's all about preparation. Just a little bit...

Prepping your pool before winterizing can actually make winterizing easier plus it will you help you have a more successful opening and start up the following spring.

There are 4 basic or essential steps that will help prepare your pool for winterizing. The steps are easy to follow and I think they'll make sense. Start about 2 weeks ahead of closing for best results. If you don't want to read, you can watch the video .

Here are 4 Essential Steps (after the video):

Good Water Balance

Our customers ask, "why do I have to worry about testing & balancing my swimming pool water?  If it looks clear, everything must be good. Right?" 

The answer is, "Usually not."  The short answer is if the water isn't properly balanced, you're not safe, the pool & its components (filter, pump, heater, pool surfaces, fittings, etc) just won't last long, and finally, you'll be wasting your money!

Here's what we mean:

Pool Water balancing for you & your body:  When the pH & Total alkalinity are out of balance, your chlorine, bromine or other sanitizer don't work as efficiently as they should.  When the sanitizer doesn't work efficiently, bacteria & other stuff you don't want in your spa start gaining control.  You could easily end up with skin rashes and eye irritations at least.

Pool Pillow Pal

So, how frustrated are you when you go to winterize your aboveground pool & you have to deal with the air pillow and ropes or string?

If you're like most pool owners, you're really frustrated!

The air pillow or pillows (sometimes called "ice equalizers") don't stay in place. They move all over.

Then you have to worry about the rope cutting through & damaging the pool winter cover. It's just a hassle!

Well, now ParPools.com introduces the Pool Pillow Pal.

Vacation Proof Your Pool

Every time you go away on vacation for a week or two, you come back and the pool is looking, well, not so good.

We hear it all it the time.

The good news is, we have 9 simple, easy to follow steps that virtually guarantee that, if followed, clear, clean water upon your return home.

Before you leave for vacation this summer, give yourself an extra hour to do just 9 simple steps. Following these steps are a whole lot less costly than fixing your pool water because of an algae bloom or cloudy water or bottomed out water balance. You can even download & print out a check list to help you out.

Dust Bunnies & Water Bugs

Yeah, Dust bunnies & Water bugs... Almost every pool has them!

Worse yet, there's no real way to get rid of them. Each is a nuisance in it's one right.

First Dust bunnies.  Dust bunnies are simple agglomerations - a fancy word for bunches - of pollen, dirt, tree dust, bugs, and dirt. Nothing more. Nothing less.

They accumulate in the corners of your pool. You can vacuum them up and, more than likely, they'll be back the following day.

You've Got to Shock!

That's right! You've got to shock your pool. There's no getting around it...

If you don't regularly shock your pool, whether it's a chlorine or bromine sanitized pool, or a biguanide product such as BioGuard Soft Swim or Arch Chemical Baquacil, or an ionizing system such as Pool Frog or Nature2, or even a salt/chlorine generating system, you're asking for cloudy water, algae, burning eyes or worse.

Shocking your pool on a regular, weekly or bi-weekly  basis does so much for you. I'm not just pushing a chemical sale on you, I'm trying to save you time, money and a whole bunch of aggravation.

Pink Slime & White Water Mold

Pink Slime & White Water Mold.

These two pool water care problems are probably the ickiest things you could possibly deal with in swimming pool water care. As you can see in the picture, Pink Slime & White Water Mold can grow together. Pink Slime is pinkish in color. White Water Mold is whitish-gray. More specifics in a minute. Worse yet - if that were possible - most pool dealers and service companies do not know how to properly diagnose or treat them. And they have to be dealt with promptly and completely.

Let's look at what Pink Slime (PS) & White Water Mold (WWM) are and are not. First some basics, then the video.

Algae Care

"This green stuff is everywhere in my pool!"

Well, it shouldn't be... Learn about what algae is, how it affects your swimming pool and tips on how to treat it in this video.

There are 3 basic kinds or types of algae: Green, Black & Mustard. Each has different characteristics, which lead to different methods of treatment.