Articles Tagged 'swimming'
10 Facts about the Polar Bear Plunge
Your pool might be pretty cold, but is it as cold as the Northern oceans? On New Year's Day, thousands of swimmers took the Polar Bear Plunge into freezing water.
Are they nuts? Plunging into water at 8 degrees Celsius (46 F) or colder! Perhaps they are, but people have been known to do stranger things

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Read More...Beautiful Arizona Pool

A Solar-Breeze owner shared pictures of her pool in Arizona. Send your pictures to CustomerService@Solar-Breeze.com
Read More...Cats, Hats, & Swimming Pools
Ancient Egyptians believed that they could protect themselves from evil spirits by watching their cats. Felines could sense the invisible presence and would react to the threat, warning the living people in the home.
Cats can still sense invisible threats. Their senses and their whiskers are more finely attuned to the world around them than yours and mine are.
So, take note when your mouser meows to come in and stretches out on the cool tile floor. He senses the threat of excessive sun and heat and is taking the most sensible action available for a non-swimmer.
Read More...Beautiful Utah Pool with Solar-Breeze
What a beautiful setting for this pool near Kayenta, Utah!
"With the Solar-Breeze doing all the work, I have more time to enjoy this scenery." -- H
The owner started by purchasing an original Solar-Breeze 1.0 and liked it so well that he upgraded to our model 2.0.
The Solar-Breeze robotic pool skimmer saves you time, money and energy. By skimming off the film of dust with the 50 micron screen, it leaves your pool sparkling.
While we can't promise it will look like this one --You are going to love the way your pool looks!
See more pictures by clicking through the read more link.
Read More...Cottage in the City
The pool practically looks after itself since we have a Solar-Breeze. The garden lies fallow in the Arizona heat. The compost is cooking. The monsoon winds brought down a major limb of our mesquite tree so we trimmed and tidied the trees. We have finally cleaned up the dirt from the Haboob that enveloped the Valley of the Sun a couple of weeks ago.
So now we have more time to do the fun summer things but not enough time off to head out of town. Having a backyard pool is like going to the Cottage after 5pm everyday and still being back at work the next morning.
Read More...Planning Your Pool Party
With the temperature climbing, the pool will be the center of most of your outside entertaining. The annual heat wave is settling in, so why not escape away! You can make your pool a summer oasis, where you can show off your new summer threads, enjoy some refreshments, join in a game of water volleyball, or just have some barefoot fun in the sun. The water, shade and company provide nice ways to stay fresh and cool while enjoying the summer warmth with friends and family. That’s why this summer, no matter how young or old you are, pool parties are the ‘it’ thing.
Here are some tips to help you with your outside entertaining...
Read More...3 Steps to a Clean Pool

Large or small, salt water or fresh water, gunite or pebbletec; all pools have a tendency to get dirty. It's a fact of pools.
There are three steps to having a clean pool, regardless what size or type you may have.
- SANITIZE
- OXIDIZE
- PREVENT ALGAE
A Solar-Breeze robotic solar pool skimmer can help you with steps 1. and 3 and save on electricity in the process.
Over the next couple of weeks, the team at Solar Pool Technologies will go deeper into these three steps. So stay tuned.


