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Maintain A Clean Pool After Any Storm (Rain & Dust Storm Tips)

When the sky opens and gumboots come out, it may be worth having a look at your pool. After a heavy down pour, the excessive amount of water entering your pool can dilute your chemical balance as well as wash nutrients into your pool, which is superfood for algae. This means you may need to add phosphate removers, flocculants and other chemicals to get your balance back. But what about other types of storms your swimming pool has to weather?
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How much meat per person at a BBQ?

You are planning an outdoor party… The BBQ has had a good scrape down and the pool is glistening in the background, now just the ‘quick’ trip to the shops. Being a good planner you start to write your shopping list.. Salad, turkish bread, dips, meat…… Then you ask yourself, how much meat should I allocated per person? This isn’t something you want to under cater and your pockets aren’t endless, so you don’t want to significantly over cater. After
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Top five pool games this summer

Pools are great places to play games in summer. Kids are kept cool, it’s wonderful exercise because they’re constantly swimming, diving or wading through water and it’s a whole lot safer than jumping around on solid ground. Here are five pool games that will keep kids occupy for hours, test their fitness, agility and all-round water skills. (more…)
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A Home Pool Safety Checklist That’s Fun For The Whole Family

Before the advent of the dishwasher families didn’t eat and run. They’d stick around to wash and dry and put away the dishes. It brought the family a little closer together and stopped the kitchen from seeming like a restaurant. This all-hands-on-deck approach is also the best way of dealing with pool safety. While there’s an array of pool safety gadgets on the market, such as alarms and motion detectors, the only foolproof method of protecting your children is adult
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Kreepy Krauly’s Sunsmart 6

If you need further proof that humans evolved from fish try standing between a kid and a pool. So it takes a quick-thinking parent to catch their slippery ones and get them sun ready before their first bombie. The best approach to readying your youngsters for the pool is to get them before they race into the back yard and out of your clutches. (more…)
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