April 3, 2007

 

To all of our Valued Customers,

 

            The spring and summer of 2007 is rapidly approaching us and it is time once again to think about opening your swimming pool.   We are very excited about assisting you in having another enjoyable summer. 

 

If you have a mesh cover, it is very important that you open your pool as early as possible. We recommend that you open your pool by May 1. The weather was very mild this fall and could potentially lead to a green pool. The earlier you open your pool, the easier your opening will be.

 

If you have a solid cover, you must be careful in pumping water off of your pool cover. There could potentially be thousands of gallons of water on top of your pool cover.   When water sits on top of your cover, there is a good chance that the water has actually pushed out the same amount of water from underneath the cover. Once you drain this water off of your cover, you must immediately replenish your pool with water underneath the cover.   Should you not immediately replenish your swimming pool with water, there is a chance you might damage your pool.   If you have any questions about this, please contact one of our stores. 

 

With the new swimming pool season quickly approaching, we have many customers who wish to enhance their swimming pools. Every year, we have many new ideas and items that you can add to your swimming pool. Also, if it is time to replace your pool liner, we recommend that you come into one of our showrooms and see many of the new and exciting liner patterns we have to offer. Once again, it is very important that you schedule these enhancements as soon as possible, because our schedule does fill up quickly.

 

We are very excited to introduce the BioGuard chemical line. We will be phasing out the Sun chemical line. BioGuard has been recognized as the chemical industry leader in both quality and selection of chemicals. They also lead the industry with new innovations to help you keep your swimming pool clean and clear.   The pricing of BioGuard chemicals is consistent with Sun chemical pricing.   With the introduction of this new chemical line, it is important that we explain to you the differences in the names of the chemicals. We wish to make this transition very easy for you, so we will train our staff to help you in identifying these new products. The following is a quick listing of the old names of chemicals followed by the new names:

 

1.      Bromine will not change. We are happy to announce that with the volume of bromine we purchase, the price of bromine has remained the same as last year.

2.      Alkalinity Increaser will now be called Balance Pak 100.

3.      pH increaser or plus will now be called Balance Pak 200.

4.      pH decreaser or minus will now be called Lo ‘N Slo.

5.      Calcium increaser or hardness will now be called Balance Pak 300.

6.      SuperQuest will now be called Scale Inhibitor or Pool Magnet Plus.

7.      Algaecide 60 and Algaecide Concentrate will now be called Algae All 60 and Algae Back Up.

8.      All of the water clarifiers will be called Polysheen Blue and Sparkle Up.

9.      Granular chlorine will be called Super Soluble, Sticks will be called Smart Sticks or Silk Sticks, 1” tabs will be called 1” Silk Tabs and 3” tabs will be called 3”Silk Tabs. We will be also carrying 3” Tabs in the PoolLife brand.

10. Cyanuric Acid or Stabilizer for chlorine users will now be called Stabilizer 100.

 

We will continue to offer our other popular brands such as Pool Perfect, Sustain, Simplicity, Green and Stain Treat, and PoolLife.   We are also excited to introduce the new Alex water testing system. Alex will allow us to test water twice as quickly and just as accurate as before. This will allow us to test your water more quickly on those hot and busy Sunday mornings in our store.  

 

As always, we would like to remind you of all of our different product lines we have to offer:

1.      Free water testing for our pool and spa customers

2.      Huge selection of pool toys and inflatables

3.      Jacuzzi Premium spas

4.      Six lines of quality furniture available for immediate delivery:

a.       Telescope – aluminum frame

b.      Homecrest – aluminum frame

c.       Hannamint – cast aluminum

d.      Wasserman and Cape May Wicker – Outdoor wicker

e.       Meadowcraft – Cast Iron

f.        Grossfillex – resin frame

5.      Replacement umbrellas and furniture cushions

6.      Flags and wind chimes

7.      A wide assortment of everyday gift items and home décor

8.      Yankee Candles as well as pillar and dinner candles

9.      Greeting Cards

10. A unique and extensive Christmas Shoppe that creates quite a buzz and following in the area. 

 

We are also very excited to be creating a newsletter that we will send to all customers several times throughout the season. The intent of this newsletter is to be both informative and fun. We hope that you will enjoy this newsletter. Please keep your eye out for it! 

 

Our summer hours will begin April 1. Our summer hours in Bally are the following: Monday – Friday 9AM-8PM, Saturday 9AM-4PM, and Sunday 11AM-3PM. Our store hours in Robesonia are the following: Monday –Friday 10AM-8PM, Saturday 10AM-4PM, and Sunday 11AM-3PM.  

 

We are currently considering many new items such as saunas and outdoor kitchens.