Tips for Successful Swimming Pool Maintenance - Lyon Financial

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 [...]

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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 Opening Tips for Spring

Pool Opening Tips for Spring: It’s That Time of Year Again!

Posted on March 9, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Backyard Ideas, Pool Financing, Swimming Pool Maintenance

If you already own a backyard pool, you can look out your window and envision the brand-new pool season shining on the spring horizon. Your staycation dates are set. The days will soon be warmer and will even last longer. It’s just you and a refreshing beverage in your flotation device, lazily drifting along. In [...]

How To Keep Your Pool Nice and Toasty This Winter!

Posted on October 8, 2023 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Swimming Pool Maintenance

Certainly, the climate we live in affects our lifestyle. Do you have four seasons or two? Can you wear flip flops 10 out of 12 months or are snow boots a fixture by the back door? People who live in the southernmost states but travel north on occasion need only dedicate a small section of [...]

Maintenance Tips for Your New Pool: Annual Tasks

Posted on November 15, 2022 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 10, 2022 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 5, 2022 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 [...]

Winter Pool Prep

Best Pool Winterizing Techniques

Posted on December 9, 2021 by Britt Godfrey
Swimming Pool Maintenance

Some pool seasons are longer than others, so when you close up your home’s favorite amenity will be dictated by the onset of that first frost. Even in milder climates, temperatures can still drop overnight. We think it’s best to do everything possible to protect your investment by shutting it down once you move into [...]

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Pool Filters: How to Choose

Posted on September 13, 2021 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 [...]

Top Pool Maintenance Mistakes

Top Pool Maintenance Mistakes

Posted on July 31, 2020 by Britt Godfrey
Swimming Pool Maintenance

While it’s totally worth it, there’s a decent amount of work that goes in to caring for a backyard pool. To maintain your investment, you want to: be consistent and exercise caution with the chemicals. Regarding consistency, apps make your pool smart. They can also take some of the pressure off you and remove the [...]

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The Top 6 Do’s and Don’ts of Pool Maintenance

Posted on December 27, 2019 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Swimming Pool Maintenance

Your brand-new pool! Likely, your first inclination is to dive in and enjoy the splish-splash of relaxation. You start thinking about all those lazy summer weekends (and rejuvenating staycations) stretching out ahead of you. And then there are the parties! Your friends lounging on floats while you fire up the grill. That there’s a picture-perfect [...]

solar pool cover

Energy Efficient Pools Need Solar Covers and Blankets

Posted on December 13, 2019 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Swimming Pool Maintenance

From Google to Consumer Reports Magazine, a wealth of consumer information is available. But it can be overwhelming. When you are assessing your home for energy efficiency, one of your best sources of information is provided by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Those familiar EnergyGuide labels affixed to air conditioners, washing machines, water heaters, refrigerators, [...]

Get Excited (And Prepared), It’s Pool Season!

Posted on April 19, 2019 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Backyard Ideas, Swimming Pool Maintenance

We are not rushing the calendar at all! It’s just time to get that To Do List together so you are ready when the weather is. We are fond of saying that it is never bad form to ask a friend or neighbor for help. Especially if they enjoy partaking of your backyard paradise, then [...]

Fall Pool Construction

Why You Should Add Pool Construction to Your Fall To-Do List!

Posted on November 9, 2018 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Swimming Pool Construction, Swimming Pool Maintenance

If you are already the proud owner of a backyard swimming pool, then the days for you to enjoy a refreshing dip are almost coming to an end. If you live in points south, then you know you have a few more weeks to revel as the temps have not really started to plummet. What [...]

Winterizing Your Pool

Top Ten Tips for Winterizing Your Pool

Posted on October 26, 2018 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Swimming Pool Maintenance

As a home owner it seems there’s always something to worry about! Will the roof weather the storm? Are my windows efficiently keeping the elements out? Is the tree on the front lawn contributing to breaking up the driveway’s concrete? Sometimes you may want to hearken back to the days when you rented an apartment [...]