My Christmas stocking saw its first visit from Santa a couple weeks early this year. It arrived in the form of a press release from the National Swimming Pool Foundation with a progress report on its Step Into Swim campaign, which started in 2012 with a mission of creating a million new swimmers by 2022. The program, which should be familiar to
The modern concept of "outdoor living" took hold a long time ago - the very first time a homeowner set up a barbecue grill somewhere near the backyard pool, then figured out a way to enjoy a family meal al fresco. This sort of casual and mostly seasonal approach held on for decades, but approaches to outdoor living took a giant leap forward in the 1990s, when swimming pools started being joined in increasing numbers of backyards by
Blue Thumb Distributing (Saginaw, MI) markets the Twister Mini-Fountain Kit by Aqua Bella. Available as…
Color Match Pool Fittings (Surprise, AZ) offers the 360 Pebble Top Drain, an unblockable 20-inch-round…
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Fox Pool Corp. (York, PA) has added a Badu Stream II swim-jet system (from Speck…
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Pond liners are great: They're tough, last a long time and endure a great deal of abuse during their service lives - but sometimes people want to do strange things with them, as the first question addressed in this edition of "Ask the Pond Digger" attests. As you'll see, I was asked if it was acceptable to place a new liner inside
