Topic: Fiberglass Pools
Sea Turtle
Goliath
Before Buying a Pool ebook
Everything You Need to Know Before Buying a Pool!
Many pool owners will tell you that there are many details that they wish they would have known about before purchasing their swimming pools. Download our What I Wish I Knew Before Buying a Pool Guide to help you avoid becoming this person.
Press Room
Create a Dreamy Day at the Beach in Your Own Backyard
Do you have fond memories of your whole family enjoying a dreamy, laid-back beach vacation? Can you still feel the sunshine on your face, the warm ocean breeze in your hair, and the sound of the waves lulling you to sleep at night? There’s just something special about being at the beach. But for those of us living nowhere near the coast, there are still ways to recreate that fabulous feeling at home with a zero-entry pool. Here are a few of our favorite backyard beach ideas.
Obviously, you’ll need some water. If that water happens to be in a pool, even better! If you’ve been thinking about getting a pool to cool off on hot summer days, it’s time to take the plunge. Inground fiberglass pools are a great option—they’re durable, elegant, low-maintenance, and are available in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and colors.
But if you really want to do it right, get a patented (US Patent 10,472,839) beach entry fiberglass pool, the Sandal or the Grace, from Thursday Pools. You can bask in the sun, relax on the “shore,” and dip your toes in the water anytime you want!
What’s a day at the beach without a friendly game of beach volleyball? Water activities are good exercise and a great way to get everybody into the pool and active for a fun time together. From inflatable or portable versions to permanent setups that anchor into your pool deck, there are options available for any pool.Â
All of that fun in the sun is going to work up an appetite, so plan to have plenty of beach party snacks on deck. Use sand buckets and beach shovels for a festive summer twist on your chips and dip, and don’t forget the fun paper umbrellas! Whip up a tropical fruit punch and use floating pieces of frozen fruit to keep it cold for hours.
The beach is all about being unplugged, so tell your friends and family to leave their devices at the door (OK, except for the occasional selfie). Read a book (remember those?) to relax or get active with some beach volleyball in the pool. Put on some reggae music to set the mood, or find your favorite beach party playlist.
As the sun goes down, light up the lawn torches, wrap up in a blanket, and bask in the glow from the fire pit as you reflect on a wonderful day spent with friends and family at your backyard beach!
Ready to create your own backyard beach paradise? With your new beach entry fiberglass pool, you’ll be the envy of the neighborhood. Enjoy all the best parts of a day at the beach without all the sand in your swimsuit and have your own beach party right outside your home every day.
Inquiring Minds Want to Know: How Do You Make a Fiberglass Pool?
Have you ever watched that show “How It’s Made?” It’s pretty easy to get drawn in. If you’re a naturally curious person, you could get completely geeked out watching them explain how things are made–especially things you’ve never given much thought to the inner workings of–like baseballs, aluminum foil, shoelaces, and those cute little paper umbrellas you get in your pina colada.
Well, if you’ve ever seen a giant fiberglass pool shell riding down the road on a trailer, you might have stopped to wonder, “how in the world did they make that?” The process of making fiberglass is cool enough but when you see how it’s transformed into a beautifully finished inground fiberglass pool, it’s even cooler.
Fiberglass is literally fibers of glass, spun fine enough to be molded into many forms. Your first thoughts of fiberglass may conjure up giant bubblegum pink rolls of insulation, but it takes many more forms than that. You’ll find fiberglass in your car, your home, and all over the world around you. Fiberglass is a key component in airplanes, wind turbines, medical equipment, and electronics. And if you’re in the market for a new inground swimming pool, you’d be really happy to find it in your own backyard.
The process for creating an inground fiberglass pool is fascinating. They’re constructed by hand, by craftsmen who are very skilled at their trade. The best quality fiberglass pools are made up of numerous layers of resin, chopped fiberglass, and hand-laid woven roving fiberglass for the greatest strength and durability, and the flexibility of fiberglass allows for a great variety of styles, shapes, sizes, and finish colors. Â
So if you’re thinking about creating your own private backyard oasis this year and would like to know more about fiberglass pools, take a look at this awesome and informative guide that will tell you exactly how a fiberglass pool is made. (But if you do get a pool and want to try and make your own paper umbrellas to go in your poolside drinks, you’ll have to watch the show to see how those are made– we’ve got absolutely no idea.)
Resolve to Spend it Wisely
We’re closing in on the end of the first month of the new year. So it’s a good time to circle back around and check in on our new year’s resolutions. Have any of them stuck? January is great time to assess our goals and plans. Whether your plans are large scale (like going on vacation or getting a new fiberglass pool in your backyard by summer,) or small scale (like stashing away enough money each month to get some new lounge chairs for the patio by Spring,) minding your pennies now can add up to a big deal later. The secret is in keeping track.
None of us really likes to document what we do every day, whether it’s how many cups of coffee we drink, how many cookies we’ve eaten, or how much money we spent on things that weren’t in our budget. But accountability is key to staying on target with any goal you’re working toward. If you want to end up with more money at the end of the month, you need to know where your money goes every minute of every day. You’ll be surprised at how much you can actually hold onto if you track it.
Mint.com  is a great site for managing your day-to-day finances, and there’s an easy to use mobile app for managing your money on the go. There are also investment tips and analyses of the best bets for interest-free credit cards, banks and IRA rollovers.
If that’s too high tech for your taste, you can at least get a good idea of where and how you’re spending your hard-earned dough by reading your credit card statement thoroughly at the end of the month. Most of them at least break down your expenditures by category. Â
Remember that cash can be a friend or an enemy. If you’re in a good habit of spending only what you have, that’s great. But taking cash out of the ATM just to have some “walking around” money can get you into trouble. If, at the end of the day, your pockets are empty, you might not even be able to remember what you spent it on.
So, would you rather have a week’s worth of nothing you can remember? Or would you like to have a lifetime of memories with something wonderful for your family, like a new backyard oasis with an amazing, new fiberglass pool?
The choice is yours. Resolve to spend it wisely.
Try Our Pool Cost Calculator
This is the Year You DO It!
The new year is here. We’ve all got plans for how we’re going to make 2018 our best year yet. Does your plan for the new year include a big new purchase, like an outdoor playground or fiberglass swimming pool?
You can make 2018 the year that you actually DO these things instead of just dreaming about them. The difference lies in your approach.
One way to achieve your goals is to write them down, and break them into manageable chunks. Post them where you can look at them daily, and get your whole family on board.
If you’re thinking of getting a fiberglass pool this year, post a picture of the pool you’ve chosen on your refrigerator and refer back to it every time you’re thinking of making an unessential purchase. Keep your eyes on the prize! If you’re not sure which pool might be the best fit for your family, check out this handy pool selector tool.
Productivity gurus also like to talk about the SMART principle. SMART stands for Specific, Measurable, Assignable, Realistic and Time-bound. It’s a tried and true way to define your goals and finally achieve them.
If, for example, your goal is to save the money for a down payment on a new fiberglass pool, and you decide to set aside $100 per week, your budget might look like this:
Eating at home one night per week instead of going out= a savings of $75.00 per week
Giving up that daily latte:Â $5.00x 5= a savings of $25.00 per week
Using these criteria to quantify and delineate your action plan to work toward your goal can make all the difference in whether you’re swimming in your beautiful, new fiberglass pool in your outdoor paradise by the time the summer heat kicks in or sitting on the patio with a popsicle in front of a fan.
This is the year you DO it!
Wondering how much a new fiberglass pool might cost? Check out this article.
Enjoy the Health Benefits of Swimming in the New Year
New Year’s Eve is almost here. For many of us, that means getting dressed up, celebrating with friends, and staying up way past our usual bedtime to properly greet the New Year. It’s also a time for us to stop and assess how our year has gone; what we’ve accomplished and what our hopes, goals and dreams are for the year to come.
This inevitably brings up the topic of New Year’s Resolutions.
Resolutions come in many shapes and sizes. And, in fact, for many of us, the resolution itself is to change our own shapes and sizes. If getting more fit and feeling more healthy in the New Year is on your list, here are the health benefits of swimming to get you there.
- If exercises such as jogging are too jarring for you, swimming is a great way to get the health benefit of getting your heart pumping without the high impact stress of pounding the pavement.
- Swimming tones your muscles and builds strength. It provides a full body workout.
- In addition to increasing your overall strength, swimming can improve your coordination, balance and posture.
- There’s no better exercise to improve cardiovascular health. Swimming just 30 minutes a day will result in lower resting heart rates and lower blood pressure.
- Swimming is a very peaceful activity, so it’s great for stress reduction. Much like practicing yoga, there’s not much else to think about other than the motions you’re moving through, so it’s a great way to calm and clear your mind.
Measuring the success of your New Year’s health resolutions is not always as simple as seeing the numbers on the scale go down by ten pounds. (In fact, this is often the least effective way to measure success, because those numbers don’t tell the full picture of your overall health and well-being.) It’s really more a question of how you feel.
Feeling more energetic, fit and happy in the New Year is an achievable goal for all of us. For many of us, it’s simply a case of prioritizing our own health and making time to take the actions that will get us there.Â
If you’d rather swim in the comfort of your own backyard, it’s not too late to tell Santa that you want an in-ground fiberglass pool for Christmas! That way, the entire family can be enjoying the health benefits of swimming by the time spring rolls around. To learn more about how easy it can be to own an in-ground fiberglass pool and start enjoying the health benefits of swimming by spring, click here.