Marbelite Pool Colours: How White, Blue and Grey Finishes Compare
How the main marbelite pool colours look under water, how each one ages, and how our team helps owners choose between white, blue and grey.
Swimming Pools
Can You Paint a Fibreglass Pool? Paint vs Relining Compared
When painting a faded fibreglass pool makes sense, when relining is the better buy, and what each job involves.
Leaking Pool Pipes: Signs, Causes and How They Are Repaired
The signs of leaking pool pipes, what causes a pool plumbing leak, and how a leak under paving or on a return line is found and repaired.
Pool Repair Costs: A Price Guide to the Most Common Repairs
A price guide to the most common pool repairs, from leaks and cracks to skimmers, jets, filters and coping, and what makes a repair quote go up or down.
LED Pool Lights: Upgrading From Halogen and What It Costs
What LED pool lights cost, how they compare with old halogen lamps, and what an upgrade from halogen involves for a typical home pool.
Pool Light Transformers: Why 12V Matters and Signs of Failure
Why pool lights run on 12V, what the pool light transformer does, and the warning signs that it’s failing or unsafe.
What a Weekly Pool Service Includes (and DIY vs Hiring Out)
Every task a proper weekly pool service should cover, what is not included, and how doing it yourself compares with hiring a pool service team.
Noisy Pool Pump? What Each Sound Means and How to Fix It
A sound-by-sound guide to a noisy pool pump: what grinding, humming, rattling and gurgling mean, and the safe checks to try first.
Pool Cleaning Tools Every Owner Needs, and Which Ones to Skip
The short list of pool cleaning tools a home pool really needs, how to choose the right pool brush, and the gadgets that aren’t worth the money.