Swimming Pool Q&A
Belleville News-Democrat, IL - Aug 10, 2006… Check with your contractor or licensed pool retailer for different types of pool cleaners maximized for different finishes and types of pools. …
Looking to save? Try these tips
San Jose Mercury News - A cover controls water evaporation, keeps the pool warmer, and keeps the pool cleaner so the filter runs less often. Get your central heating/cooling system ducts tested for air leakage. Up to 30 percent of the heated or cooled air is lost through
Detroit Edison Customers Asked to Reduce Power Consumption
Yahoo! News (press release) - Aug 1, 2006… when away from the house for an extended period of time; * Avoid using major appliances, such as dishwashers, washers and dryers, swimming pool filters, etc. …
Action Line: Tips from city will help control cockroaches
San Jose Mercury News, USA - Aug 1, 2006… Otherwise, place boric acid or diatomaceous earth (the kind used for pest control, NOT for pool filters) under large appliances, in wall voids or inside …
Yeah, it’s pretty hot out there
Oakland Press, MI - Aug 2, 2006… while at home and 10 degrees higher when away from home; avoid using major appliances such as dishwashers, washing machines dryers and pool filters until after …
Fridge, AC quickly gobble energy dollars
The Desert Sun, CA - Aug 12, 2006… on the green Rebates and Savings button, illustrate in graphs and charts how much a customer spends on everything from computers and pool filters to cooking …
Heroes of the beach
Yanking a girl’s hair is usually considered impolite. But Jason Dare didn’t have a choice.
Pools, with cabanas and outdoor kitchens, create backyard resorts
Ron Kaiser and Sue Murphy aren’t “big water people.” So why then did they spend about $225,000 for a 36-by-20-foot in-ground pool with two waterfalls and fiber-optic lighting, surrounded by several seating areas and an outdoor kitchen, bar and fireplace?
Fridge, AC quickly gobble energy dollars
The Desert Sun, CA - Aug 12, 2006… on the green Rebates and Savings button, illustrate in graphs and charts how much a customer spends on everything from computers and pool filters to cooking …
Swimwear woes: Whatever happened to cutoffs?
They have become a modern-day scourge, apparel outcasts so despised that in some spots they are synonymous with “open cuts” and “communicable diseases.”
Smart meter charge jolt
ENERGY Australia is planning to test a new breed electricity system as it moves to install a half-million so-called smart meters.
Residents asked to conserve energy; Gov. Rell opens state parks and beaches for free
State and national agencies are asking residents to cut back on electricity to ensure there are no blackouts and to reduce the level of unhealthy air in the wake of the current heat wave.
Detroit Edison Customers Asked to Reduce Power Consumption
Detroit Edison is asking its customers to take immediate steps to reduce their use of electricity, in response to a fifth straight day of oppressive temperatures, high humidity and increased demand for electric power in the Midwest region.
Fire official says spill on Manatee Avenue this morning was …
Bradenton Herald, United States - Jul 14, 2006… prompting a hazmat response and causing the closing of a downtown intersection for 30 minutes today was muriatic acid, the kind used by swimming pool cleaners. …
Yeah, it’s pretty hot out there
If it felt like a sauna outside Tuesday, that’s because it pretty much was. Pontiac’s high temperature reached 97 degrees and the heat index - what the weather actually feels like when humidity is taken into account - hit triple digits by noon and peaked at 103 degrees at 5:30 p.m.
Sixty One S.J. Pools Are Possible Mosquito Hazards
Sixty-one dirty swimming pools in San Jose are under inspection for harboring West Nile Virus-carrying mosquitoes after the Santa Clara County Vector Control District discovered the potential health hazard during aerial tours last week, Vector Control District spokeswoman Kriss Costa said Wednesday.
Yeah, it’s pretty hot out there
Oakland Press - Some energy saving tips offered by DTE Energy include raising the thermostat four to five degrees while at home and 10 degrees higher when away from home; avoid using major appliances such as dishwashers, washing machines dryers and pool filters
Power suppliers brace for demands of heat wave in Eastern Connecticut
Norwich Bulletin - Dishwashers, washing machines, clothes dryers, pool filters, pool heaters and dehumidifiers should be used at night when possible. Do not use your dishwasher’s drying cycle. Cook outside on a charcoal or gas grill. This will save electricity and keep the
Dorms under construction at two area campuses
Daily Star - Minor projects include repaving the lower section of Hartwick Drive the main drag to campus, off West Street standard renovations to residence halls, repairing cement stairways and replacing swimming pool filters, said Rob Clark, director of
Residents asked to conserve energy; Gov. Rell opens state parks and
Norwich Bulletin - Turn off pool filters until after 8 p.m. Also, to combat the heat today and Wednesday, Gov. M. Jodi Rell has ordered all state parks and beaches will be open for free. The state beaches that will be open are Long Island Sound, Rocky Neck in East Lyme
Going to the dogs
Sacramento Business Journal - Doodie Duty is just another service, like paying for a pool cleaner or a landscaper, and it is something most landscapers won’t do, Foydl said. Doodie Duty’s rates for services, billed monthly, range from $30 for bi-monthly visits for one dog to $80
Pregnancy determination and pregnant care
Turkish Daily News - I’m just waiting on ‘Shock and Awe Laundry Soap’ or maybe ‘Shock and Awe Pool Cleaner,”‘ said Joe Reynolds of Conroe, Texas. Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan-based Lake Superior State has been compiling its “List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English
Pool supplies chain expands into Bonita
News-Press - Terell Marable, left, store manager of the new Leslie’s Swimming Pool Supplies in Bonita Springs assists Kim Williams as he buys a pool cleaner Wednesday at the store. Leslie’s believes recent residential growth in south Lee County will make the new
Avoid the 5 big errors in kitchen fix
Memphis Commercial Appeal - An in-home system such as Jandy’s AquaLink, available through pool builders, can control the pool and spa temperature, water and light features, and pool cleaner — (707) 776-8200; jandy.com. The unit can be activated by a cell phone call, heating
