With our new revamped website, you can now design your own Pacific Pool with our Virtual Pool Builder!
With so many shapes and options, it's easier than ever to design a swimming pool that reflects your style and fits your life.
In just five simple steps, you can design a pool to share with your friends. You start with the backyard. Once you've picked a yard that is closest to your own, then you simply click "NEXT" to choose your pool, then your pool liner, your decking, and your accessories! It's fun!
Why not give it a try? Head to http://clicky.me/3iIb and start designing your Pacific Pool today!
Showing posts with label inground swimming pools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inground swimming pools. Show all posts
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Kidney Design
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| Kidney Design Get inspired and find the pool shape that’s the perfect fit for your backyard and your lifestyle! With hundreds of shapes available and the ability to create your own custom shapes, you’re sure to find a pool that fits your family’s needs, tastes and interests. This Kidney shape is the perfect compliment to this gorgeous backyard natural setting. The flagstone deck, raised garden area, and ample outdoor living space would beckon anyone to take a refreshing dip. Your Pacific Pool will reflect the natural beauty of your home, lifestyle and taste. It’s a true extension of your personality whether you entertain friends or associates, throw parties or just have family get togethers. Isn’t this what a swimming pool is all about? This is what Pacific Pools is all about. Let us take you on a journey that is sure to lead you to the nearest Showcase Builder and your private backyard oasis. |
Designer Liners
Often imitated, but never duplicated
Pacific was the first to introduce 3-D liner patterns in 1994 and continues to be the design leader today. Patterns that look so realistic you have to touch them to see if they’re hand made tiles from Spain or the finest mosaic tiles from Italy. Think about it, when your pool is completed, one of the only remaining component left to the eye is the liner. That’s why we don’t just settle on offering you the same old ho hum patterns that everyone else has. We offer true uniqueness..
Pacific offers you 6 exclusive patterns that are only available through your Showcase Builder. So, you can take comfort in knowing that your style and taste won’t be compromised. Browse our exclusive patterns for your distinction.
Our liners are strong and durable, made from the finest virgin vinyl available and treated with a special fungicide to inhibit bacteria growth and protect your family’s health. Virtually maintenance-free, the smooth surface of a vinyl liner is far easier to clean than other pool surfaces. Designer liners from Pacific Pools look and feel great, too.
Pacific was the first to introduce 3-D liner patterns in 1994 and continues to be the design leader today. Patterns that look so realistic you have to touch them to see if they’re hand made tiles from Spain or the finest mosaic tiles from Italy. Think about it, when your pool is completed, one of the only remaining component left to the eye is the liner. That’s why we don’t just settle on offering you the same old ho hum patterns that everyone else has. We offer true uniqueness..
Pacific offers you 6 exclusive patterns that are only available through your Showcase Builder. So, you can take comfort in knowing that your style and taste won’t be compromised. Browse our exclusive patterns for your distinction.
Our liners are strong and durable, made from the finest virgin vinyl available and treated with a special fungicide to inhibit bacteria growth and protect your family’s health. Virtually maintenance-free, the smooth surface of a vinyl liner is far easier to clean than other pool surfaces. Designer liners from Pacific Pools look and feel great, too.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Options for design are endless with a Pacific Pool!
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| Rectangle Pool Design |
Pacific Pools has 22 different designs, offering endless possibilities for any backyard. It’s easy to create your dream backyard with the various pool designs that Pacific Pools has to offer, ranging anywhere from a classic Rectangle, to Kidney, or something unique, like the Mirage pool design.
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| Custom Shape Pool Design |
Because of the unique pool building options, any pool can be manipulated to the customer’s needs. This creates our custom shape pool designs! Each backyard is unique to the area and the customer’s preferences, Pacific Pools allows for the customer to use this to their advantage! Your dream backyard is just a click away to find a Pacific Pools dealer in your area!
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Building a Pacific Pool
Building a Pacific Pools comes with ease, and peace of mind. The pool walls are made of high strength resin, much like the material used to strengthen sports equipment, automobiles, and aircrafts! Using this resin in combination with innovative design is the recipe for flawless design.
The wall panels and braces of the pool are all constructed of an all-resin structural polymer, which means it will never rust, oxidize or degrade! These walls are designed in a unique honeycomb pattern that carries an extremely high strength-to-weight ratio, providing not only strength, but creating integrity.
Each pool is supported with a Pacific Pac-X Brace, which is located every three to four feet around the entire pool. Strategically placed into the concrete bond beam and decking, this matches the support of the pool wall with the decking. Additional to this process, the Mate-Lock and Panel Lok systems provide positive alignment of wall panels, and add strength to the installation process, as well as the overall lifetime of the pool.
The Pacific Pac-X Brace can also be combined with sonotube, an additional column of support behind the brace itself. Additionally, the I-Brace can be added for ultimate strength, it is a polymer form design to be filled entirely with concrete. This concrete vertical mass negates the challenge of ground movement and backfill compartmentalization.
Needless to say, Pacific Pools provides a pool that provides strength, and durability, as well as integrity.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
2010 International Awards of Excellence
The annual Awards of Excellence (AOE) recognizes the most beautiful and creative installation of pools, hot tubs and water features across the United States and around the world.
The entry submission site for the 40th International Awards of Excellence competition is now open!
The competition is open only to APSP-member builders, designers, service and retail firms. To enter, visit the entry site https://tbccom.com/APSP/National/, where you will also find award categories, helpful photography hints, judging criteria and entry rules and regulations. Best of luck with your submissions!
Who Can Enter the Competition?
All entrants in the International Awards of Excellence competition must be current.
The competition is open to pool/spa or hot tub builders/installers, designers, retailers or service companies that receive payment for the installation being submitted. A manufacturer or distributor may submit entries on behalf of APSP member builders/installers, designers, etc., but the recognition will go to the firm that received payment for the installation. Duplicate plaques may be purchased at a later date listing the manufacturer or distributor, and the installer of the installation.
The deadline is Sunday, Aug 15, 2010.
The entry submission site for the 40th International Awards of Excellence competition is now open!
The competition is open only to APSP-member builders, designers, service and retail firms. To enter, visit the entry site https://tbccom.com/APSP/National/, where you will also find award categories, helpful photography hints, judging criteria and entry rules and regulations. Best of luck with your submissions!
Who Can Enter the Competition?
All entrants in the International Awards of Excellence competition must be current.
The competition is open to pool/spa or hot tub builders/installers, designers, retailers or service companies that receive payment for the installation being submitted. A manufacturer or distributor may submit entries on behalf of APSP member builders/installers, designers, etc., but the recognition will go to the firm that received payment for the installation. Duplicate plaques may be purchased at a later date listing the manufacturer or distributor, and the installer of the installation.
The deadline is Sunday, Aug 15, 2010.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Pool Dig = Prehistoric Fossils!
The Leyden home in Brighton, TN was the cause of much excitement recently when prehistoric fossils were unearthed during the installation of their new Pacific Graphex pool from Aloha Pools and Spas out of Memphis, TN, one of our very own Showcase builders.
Subcontractor Dave Mason of Affordable Pool Contractors unearthed the jawbone while digging 8 feet down to install the drain line for the new pool. Unaware at the time that the crack he heard when digging was actually the shovel hitting a little piece of tooth! The dig came to a halt and Mrs. Leyden phoned her husband Jim to give him the exciting news!
Roy Young, conservator at Memphis Pink Palace Museum was brought on the scene and later was able to extract a tooth still attached to the fossil. Experts think they are the bones of a prehistoric mammal, possibly a trilophodon, a member of the mastodon family, extinct predecessors of elephants.
One expert is estimating the fossils to be anywhere from 30,000 years old to 2 million years old. If the 2-foot-long wishbone shaped jawbone is indeed from a trilophodon, that would mark the first time fossils of this type were found in Tennessee and may possibly lead to more research in the area.
The Leyden family has enjoyed their 15 minutes of fame and planning to donate the fossils, possibly to the Memphis Pink Palace Museum. In the meantime they're looking forward to enjoying their new Pacific pool!
Friday, June 25, 2010
We Give Back
What is Pool Builders Academy? It is a hands-on technical course where attendees will learn the proper way to install a residential, polymer-wall or steel-wall inground vinyl liner pool.
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| Lighthouse Ranch Build! |
Upon completion of the program, attendees receive 32 hours of APSP technical credit and a complimentary Signature Series inground liner (up to 16 x 32).
Who should attend? Anyone entering into the pool construction business should attend a build, as well as seasoned builders who have hired new employees, or anyone who would like a refresher course. Participants at the Pool Builders Academy are able to enhance their skills and learn pool construction techniques in a hands-on environment.
Peter Moran, Technical Services Manager of North America, takes on this huge undertaking and runs two of these each year. We donate the pool kits. The white goods, pump and filtration equipment are all donated by industry partners. Coverstar LLC donates the automatic cover. Construction equipment and crew time are donated by local builders.
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| Crumley House Pool! |
Other nonprofit recipients include the Lighthouse Ranch for Boys in Loranger, LA. Lighthouse Ranch is a home for at-risk young men who struggle with substance abuse and behavioral issues. The site houses a school, living facility and several counselors and care workers.
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| Tupelo Children's Mansion! |
The next Pool Builders Academy is planned for October in Pell City, Alabama with the build of a polymer pool. If you would like to be a member of this class and learn about code awareness, pool layout, excavation, panel, brace and step assembly, plumbing, liners, deck options, and safety--all from APSP certified builders, please click on the email link with your contact info. It’s a great feeling to give back!
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Pacific Pools - Who We Are
Welcome to the official launch of the Pacific Pools blog! This is where I would like to introduce you to Pacific Pools. Let me start by telling you who we are and how we got started.
Pacific Pools was founded in 1956 by Merrill Laven, father of our current President and CEO, Mark Laven. Merrill originally sold home improvement products and vinyl-lined, wood-wall pools under the name Pacific Pools.
Initially, growth was through the expansion of the retail pool business and Pacific Pools became one of the largest pool builders in the country with locations in Syracuse, NY, Hartford, CT, Providence, RI, Charlotte, NC and Atlanta, GA.
The 1960’s was a time of change and it was no different for Pacific Pools. Frustrated that manufacturers weren’t responsive to what consumers wanted, Pacific Pools got into the manufacturing side of the business to develop new products to best meet the needs of consumers.
Pacific Pools opened our first steel pool manufacturing plant in 1965, and one year later, the first steel walk-in steps system in a vinyl-liner pool was offered. This gave consumers the option of adding steps in addition to ladders. Pacific Pools ended the decade by offering the first vinyl liner with a tile motif at the waterline. Prior to this, pool liners were only available in white or blue and consumers asked for more choices.
Pacific Pools can proudly boast a number of “firsts” based on customer focus, with our continuous development of new products and the enhancement of existing products!
In 1972 Pacific Pools opened its own liner manufacturing plant. Initially, all liners were sourced from a supplier in California. A facility in the east cut delivery times, shipping costs and made liners more readily available and gave us the option to offer consumers more of what they wanted. In 1973, the first polymer pool component - the K-brace was rolled out. This brace was the first totally non-corrosive component available. In 1975, the all-resin inground pool made its debut, again non-corrosive. In 1976 Pacific Pools followed up with the first structural polymer pool that incorporates the wall, coping and liner track into modular pool panels. Still not satisfied to sit back and watch, the first one-piece thermoplastic step in the industry was unveiled in 1979! Unlike steel steps, it doesn’t need to be bolted together and assured a wrinkle free step area.
All of these innovative, pioneering products led to the emergence of Pacific Pools as one of he leading manufacturers in the industry.
The 1980’s were highlighted by ownership changes. In 1982 brothers Mark and Robert Laven and three other partners acquired the company from their father and expanded the company into custom molding. Then, in 1987 they bought out their partners. The 1980’s ended with the Cookson Group acquiring the company and Pacific Industries became the principal business of Cookson’s Recreational Products Division.
The 1990’s brought more changes. Pacific Pools expanded from manufacturing to include distribution. Shortly after, the TES Support System (Total Encapsulated Support) was added to the product line. This pioneering patented system encapsulates tread supports in pool steps for optimum tread support and strength. Pacific Pools followed up with the 3D liner patterns that offer realistic tile images for liners. This revolutionized the vinyl liner segment of the pool industry. Prior to the introduction of 3D liner patterns, all liner patterns were 1 dimensional and visually flat.
Mark Laven left the company in the early 1990’s, but in 2001, he reacquired the company along with two private equity investors, Summer Street Capital and HSBC Capital Canada.
This new decade continued the tradition of new product offerings and growth. In 2004 we introduced the Wedding Cake Step, the first one-piece molded inside step. The Wedding Cake Step was designed for the vinyl over application on new construction, but it was also perfect for renovation because it can be dropped into an existing pool.
TruTile (Perimeter Tile System) was added to the product line a year later. It is the first system that attaches to the pool wall allowing real ceramic tile to be applied at the waterline of a vinyl liner pool, combining the beauty of tile with the low maintenance of a vinyl liner. In addition, we developed a water-tight patented bead system on the TruTile extrusion that allows the vinyl liner to be hung underwater. This system eliminates waterline discoloration and extends the life of the liner.
The decade closed with the introduction of the Personal Hydrotherapy seat, allowing consumers to interchange massaging JetPak configurations to fit their own personal style!
Under President and CEO Mark Laven’s guidance and through acquisitions, Pacific Pools has continued to expand and grow. Pacific Pools, under the Latham International umbrella, has become the largest manufacturer of inground packaged pool components in North America! Continually striving to “outdo” ourselves and remain customer focused and dedicated to delivering exceptional products, and by developing innovations in materials, technology, design, customer service and marketing, Pacific Pools has had a significant impact on the evolution of the pool industry!
Our products are sold and installed by pool builders who are members of our “Showcase” network of dealers. All of our pools are backed by an outstanding warranty program. (Click here to visit our warranty site). Our corporate headquarters remain in Latham, NY where it all started!
Come back often to visit with us and learn what other surprises we have in store for you! Remember, Nothing’s As Cool As A Pool!
My name is Denise Mickalonis and I have been with Pacific Pools since July 2003. I am the Marketing Communications Specialist and I will be sharing information with you. I welcome your comments and questions.
Pacific Pools was founded in 1956 by Merrill Laven, father of our current President and CEO, Mark Laven. Merrill originally sold home improvement products and vinyl-lined, wood-wall pools under the name Pacific Pools.
Initially, growth was through the expansion of the retail pool business and Pacific Pools became one of the largest pool builders in the country with locations in Syracuse, NY, Hartford, CT, Providence, RI, Charlotte, NC and Atlanta, GA.
The 1960’s was a time of change and it was no different for Pacific Pools. Frustrated that manufacturers weren’t responsive to what consumers wanted, Pacific Pools got into the manufacturing side of the business to develop new products to best meet the needs of consumers.
Pacific Pools opened our first steel pool manufacturing plant in 1965, and one year later, the first steel walk-in steps system in a vinyl-liner pool was offered. This gave consumers the option of adding steps in addition to ladders. Pacific Pools ended the decade by offering the first vinyl liner with a tile motif at the waterline. Prior to this, pool liners were only available in white or blue and consumers asked for more choices.
Pacific Pools can proudly boast a number of “firsts” based on customer focus, with our continuous development of new products and the enhancement of existing products!
In 1972 Pacific Pools opened its own liner manufacturing plant. Initially, all liners were sourced from a supplier in California. A facility in the east cut delivery times, shipping costs and made liners more readily available and gave us the option to offer consumers more of what they wanted. In 1973, the first polymer pool component - the K-brace was rolled out. This brace was the first totally non-corrosive component available. In 1975, the all-resin inground pool made its debut, again non-corrosive. In 1976 Pacific Pools followed up with the first structural polymer pool that incorporates the wall, coping and liner track into modular pool panels. Still not satisfied to sit back and watch, the first one-piece thermoplastic step in the industry was unveiled in 1979! Unlike steel steps, it doesn’t need to be bolted together and assured a wrinkle free step area.
All of these innovative, pioneering products led to the emergence of Pacific Pools as one of he leading manufacturers in the industry.
The 1980’s were highlighted by ownership changes. In 1982 brothers Mark and Robert Laven and three other partners acquired the company from their father and expanded the company into custom molding. Then, in 1987 they bought out their partners. The 1980’s ended with the Cookson Group acquiring the company and Pacific Industries became the principal business of Cookson’s Recreational Products Division.
The 1990’s brought more changes. Pacific Pools expanded from manufacturing to include distribution. Shortly after, the TES Support System (Total Encapsulated Support) was added to the product line. This pioneering patented system encapsulates tread supports in pool steps for optimum tread support and strength. Pacific Pools followed up with the 3D liner patterns that offer realistic tile images for liners. This revolutionized the vinyl liner segment of the pool industry. Prior to the introduction of 3D liner patterns, all liner patterns were 1 dimensional and visually flat.
Mark Laven left the company in the early 1990’s, but in 2001, he reacquired the company along with two private equity investors, Summer Street Capital and HSBC Capital Canada.
This new decade continued the tradition of new product offerings and growth. In 2004 we introduced the Wedding Cake Step, the first one-piece molded inside step. The Wedding Cake Step was designed for the vinyl over application on new construction, but it was also perfect for renovation because it can be dropped into an existing pool.
TruTile (Perimeter Tile System) was added to the product line a year later. It is the first system that attaches to the pool wall allowing real ceramic tile to be applied at the waterline of a vinyl liner pool, combining the beauty of tile with the low maintenance of a vinyl liner. In addition, we developed a water-tight patented bead system on the TruTile extrusion that allows the vinyl liner to be hung underwater. This system eliminates waterline discoloration and extends the life of the liner.
The decade closed with the introduction of the Personal Hydrotherapy seat, allowing consumers to interchange massaging JetPak configurations to fit their own personal style!
Under President and CEO Mark Laven’s guidance and through acquisitions, Pacific Pools has continued to expand and grow. Pacific Pools, under the Latham International umbrella, has become the largest manufacturer of inground packaged pool components in North America! Continually striving to “outdo” ourselves and remain customer focused and dedicated to delivering exceptional products, and by developing innovations in materials, technology, design, customer service and marketing, Pacific Pools has had a significant impact on the evolution of the pool industry!
Our products are sold and installed by pool builders who are members of our “Showcase” network of dealers. All of our pools are backed by an outstanding warranty program. (Click here to visit our warranty site). Our corporate headquarters remain in Latham, NY where it all started!
Come back often to visit with us and learn what other surprises we have in store for you! Remember, Nothing’s As Cool As A Pool!
My name is Denise Mickalonis and I have been with Pacific Pools since July 2003. I am the Marketing Communications Specialist and I will be sharing information with you. I welcome your comments and questions.
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