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Secret Pools

The Beauty Behind Secret Pools

Posted on January 13, 2025 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools

For over 45 years, we have watched the extraordinary journey of the backyard pool. What was once a simple rectangle that was too expensive a venture for many families has now transformed into a multi-dimension attraction of all shapes and sizes offering custom and prefab options at more affordable pricing. Before we dive into this [...]

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Pool Filters: How to Choose

Posted on January 7, 2025 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Swimming Pool Maintenance

Pools have several moving parts, and today most of those features can be controlled with a phone app. Yet another wonderful luxury, courtesy of technology! In your backyard paradise, your pool’s filter and pump are at the heart of it all. If the proper one isn’t installed or appropriately maintained, you’ll be swimming essentially in [...]

Workout

How to Get a Full Body Workout in Your Backyard Pool

Posted on December 30, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools

There’s no doubt we are huge fans of outdoor pools. One of the best things about them is their versatility. Your pool can go from being a field for water sports, to a glistening centerpiece for a backyard wedding, to a relaxing Zen zone, to the most refreshing fitness center you’ve ever known! When it [...]

How to Elevate Your Pool with Water Features

Posted on December 15, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools

From affordable to high-end, you can outfit your own personal Great Outdoors Resort with everything from changing cabanas to brick pizza ovens. You can then frame this oasis in lush greenery and vibrant blooms. But then there’s the in-between. That reflective ingredient that stands out, but blends in. The one that adds dimension and shine [...]

Maintenance Tips for Your New Pool: Annual Tasks

Posted on November 20, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Swimming Pool Maintenance

Because of their importance and the regularity with which you’ll be performing daily and weekly pool maintenance routines, you’re pretty unlikely to neglect them. To a lesser degree, ditto with the monthly ones. However, it can be easy to completely forget about the recommended annual pool maintenance tasks. Don’t worry: we have your back. Make [...]

Maintenance Tips for Your New Pool: Monthly & Occasional Tasks

Posted on November 15, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Swimming Pool Maintenance

Your new in-ground swimming pool will be able to bring you and your family and friends plenty of healthy, fun-filled memories for decades to come — but only if you make certain to continually maintain it properly. In addition to daily and weekly maintenance routines, you should also keep some other maintenance tasks on your [...]

Maintenance Tips for Your New Pool: Daily & Weekly Routines

Posted on November 8, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Swimming Pool Maintenance

As you plan for your exciting new addition of an in-ground swimming pool, you’ll want to plan for more than the financial aspect of your home’s newest feature: you’ll also want to prepare for the necessary maintenance tasks related to owning a pool. While this list may seem a bit overwhelming at first, you’ll be [...]

smart pools

Smart Pools and Our Even Smarter Pool Financing

Posted on October 14, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Backyard Ideas, Pool Financing, Swimming Pool Construction

While Lyon Financial’s expertise is in providing exceptional customer service and the information you need to make an informed decision about pool financing companies, we also love the technology currently available in smart pools. Today, our mobile devices are dashboards. We can engage our home alarm system, turn the lights on, and set a recording [...]

Shout Out to the Shallow End – Unique Pool Steps and Ladders

Posted on September 29, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Backyard Ideas, Swimming Pool Construction

The front door of your home makes a statement; whether it’s a casual screen door or the stately welcome of pillars and a portico. In the same manner pool steps and ladders are the entrée to your backyard’s centerpiece, so this entrance should also exhibit form, fashion, and function. Visual appeal in pool design is [...]

How to Balance the Calcium Hardness Level in Your Pool

How to Balance the Calcium Hardness Level in Your Pool

Posted on July 28, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Swimming Pool Maintenance

Remember those required reading lists you used to get over summer vacation? You’ll recall that if you read the books over the course of the summer, they were way easier to get through. However, if you put reading them off, you likely spent those last precious days trying to pack all those pages in before [...]

Pool House

All About Pool Houses, Pavilions, and Cabanas

Posted on June 6, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools

It is abundantly true that the more time you spend in your backyard oasis, the more time you want to spend in your backyard oasis! And the more time you spend, the more ideas you come up with for elevating the experience. Fortunately, those wonderful extras external to your pool are no longer only available [...]

Decking

Picking Decking: How To Deal the Perfect Backyard Deck

Posted on May 7, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools

Your swimming pool may be the main attraction of your alfresco entertainment center, but it’s the decking that provides the personality. Even the most generic looking pool shapes become standouts when dressed exquisitely. Fortunately, decking material choices are plentiful, whether your pool installation is a new one or you are looking to give your existing [...]

salt water

Salt Water Pool Care Tips

Posted on April 28, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Swimming Pool Maintenance

With any home improvement, you’ve got options galore. Have you ever spent weeks looking at patches of paint colors on a wall in your living room? Trying to see how each one looks in all kinds of light? When you finally decide on Benjamin Moore’s Beacon Hill Damask, then you have to follow that effort [...]

Pool Safety for Dogs: The Top Seven Things You Should Know

Posted on April 14, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Backyard Ideas

Dogs. Everyone’s best friend. Their love is unconditional, they never criticize your decisions. Your dog is always happy to see you. That furry friend who is most loyal. In turn, dogs who are loved have a rather good life. With their own retail shops, and parks, and even custom accommodations for daycare, they are rewarded [...]

Creating a Backyard Oasis – Part 3: Pavers, Masonry, and Fireplaces

Posted on April 4, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Backyard Ideas

In this last of our three-part series, we will explore some of the design touches that make backyard living unique and turn your backyard into a place where you can stamp your style. It’s interesting to see how homeowners innovate this space. Some maintain the same design aesthetic from their living room straight on out [...]

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