www.customervision.net/blogpoolcenter en-us Copyright 2007 POOLCENTER.com - Pool Blog 11/21/2009 6:24:03 AM 25 http://blog.poolcenter.com/article.asp?articleid=5959 <p style="text-align: justify">In April of 2008 POOLCENTER.com launched the &quot;Community Pool,&quot; a place for our customer's to interact, share information, fun stories about their pool, post videos, collaborate, and just keep in touch with other pool owners.&nbsp; In order to make this happen, POOLCENTER.com implemented &quot;community software&quot; which is actually a sub-domain.&nbsp; The sub-domain <a href="http://community.poolcenter.com/"><strong><font color="#000000">http://community.poolcenter.com</font></strong></a> features many categories and sub-categories for users to navigate and browse at their leisure.&nbsp; Back in 1996 (ol' 96) POOLCENTER.com posted some information up on the web for their service customer's associated with Cox Pools, the information was to help/assist residential pool owners with such things as testing water chemistry, how to clean a pool filter, how to &quot;winterize&quot; a pool, etc., and so &quot;<a href="http://www.poolcenter.com/poolcare.htm"><strong><font color="#000000">Pool Info</font></strong></a>&quot; (i.e. POOLCENTER.com) was born.</p> June 2008 (3) 12/23/2008 2:10:26 PM http://blog.poolcenter.com/article.asp?articleid=5958 <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 8pt"><span>I always like to use the analogy that - if you had a filter as &ldquo;big as a house&rdquo; you wouldn&rsquo;t need worry about circulation and sanitation. Or &ndash; if you dumped in 5 gallons of bleach every few days, you wouldn&rsquo;t need to filter or circulate much either. Or &ndash; imagine circulating your pool water so fast, like a rushing river &ndash; turning it over at a rate of 1,000 GPM (gallons per minute) that Sanitation (chlorine) and Filtration becomes unnecessary for </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-size: 8pt"><a href="http://www.poolcenter.com/cloudy.htm"><strong><font color="#000000">clean and clear pool water</font></strong></a>.</span><br /> </span></p> June 2008 (3) 12/23/2008 2:10:07 PM http://blog.poolcenter.com/article.asp?articleid=5957 <p style="text-align: justify">Now that you've got your swimming pool opened, water restored to a blue hue, pump and filter doing their job on schedule...it's time to take a look at safety. Whenever opening a pool, it's a good idea to give a Safety Scan. This is not one of those trademarked terms, btw, just a phrase I use to describe looking at the entire pool area and adjoining areas, for possible, maybe probable, Safety Issues. There is a term that <span style="font-style: italic">is</span> trademarked, I think - called &quot;Layers of Protection&quot;. It would be helpful to the discussion of a Pool Safety Scan if I start by talking about the layers of protection surrounding a swimming pool.</p> June 2008 (3) 12/23/2008 2:09:37 PM