Blame it on the Pool Guy

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Motel Guests Die of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning from Pool Heater - Hotel Executive Charged with Manslaughter A business executive that manag...

See Ray's latest comments in the September 30th issue of Pool & Spa News. http://www.poolspanews.com/2010/092/092taxes.html

The incredible benefits and operation of the Turboentabulator Belchfire 5000 are clearly explained in this short video. A must see for anyo...

My client had been servicing the commercial pool for more than 10 years. On a day much like any other, he received a phone call informing hi...

Service techs often ask how they can protect themselves before their customer makes a claim. Although it is difficult to defend a tech for d...

Is a pool technician required to notify residential customers of the increased safety provided by anti-entrapment covers and SVRS devices? S...

During a routine maintenance call at a commercial pool the service tech removed the skimmer lid, emptied the leaf basket and left both the l...

In 2008 Randy Johnson filed suit against Mission Pools of Escondido after diving into his backyard swiming pool from the diving board. Johns...

It is a common scenario: a pool service tech is owed a few hundred dollars and files suit against his customer in small claims court. The cu...

Denver television KDVR reports that a Colorado family, discovered a 1000 lb elk in the family pool after hearing the sound of heavy breathin...

The Orange County Register recently reported the case of a man who decided to use his body to test the effectiveness of a channel drain in ...

On August 25th I posted the story of an entrapment of a 3 year old girl in Key Biscayne, Florida. The Miami-Dade Health Department has relea...

On a Friday in June, our client drained a residential swimming pool to perform a routine acid wash. The home had been in foreclosure and the...

On August 21st, another Pennsylvania woman was seriously hurt, suffering thermal burns and respiratory damage when she inhaled fumes after m...

A Pennsylvania woman was rushed to the hospital for treatment of burns to her head, ears and eyes on June 24, 2009 after mixing pool chemic...

A chemical spill from an overturned pool service truck closed the northbound lanes of I-15 at I-8 in San Diego on August 3rd. The Californ...

An increase in requests by banks to drain and leave pools empty is causing concern among pool techs in light of predictions that 2010 will b...

We've been hearing that some commercial pool owners are foregoing VGBA retrofits based upon the belief that the federal legislation may ...

Swimmers in China enjoying themselves at a public pool in Nanjing, the capital of the Jiangsu Province as tempertures reach as high as 104 d...

A toddler was bitten by a rattlesnake Saturday at a swimming pool at Roaring River State Park near Cassville, Missouri. Two-year-old Miller ...

It took jackhammers and concrete cutting saws to free a 3 year old girl from a 2" vacuum suction pipe in Key Biscayne, Florida Monday a...

A pool builder client of ours recently replastered a pool. The job went well and at the end of the day he intended to wash the remaining pl...

On Wednesday, August 19th, one of our Bakersfield, California pool techs went to his last pool account of the day, tied a rock around his le...