ICC-ES Certified

ICC Certification – Building permits just got easier!

We are the only packaged swimming pool manufacturer to receive ICC-ES Certification of its products. What is ICC-ES? It’s the International Code Council Evaluation Service (ICC-ES), whose purpose is to ensure that building products meet code requirements.

Inspectors’ #1 Choice for Approving Building Codes Are ICC-ES-Certified Products*

Building inspectors and engineers look to the ICC-ES evaluation reports for evidence that the products and systems are code-compliant. Builders can receive a standardized branded swimming pool blueprint coded with an ICC-ES report # — stamped and signed by a licensed engineer!

*Final permit approval is up to the discretion of each individual municipality’s code official

Pool Game - Sharks and Minnows

The game starts out with one person selected as the shark and the rest as the minnows.

Designate one end of the pool as the minnows’ starting point and the other end as the minnows’ goal.

The shark starts in the water at the minnows’ goal, the minnows at their starting point. The minnows must be touching their starting point. The shark then shouts: "Sharks and Minnows, one two three, fishies, fishies swim to me!" after which the minnows may begin to swim to their goal.

The minnows do not need to leave right when the shark calls them over. Minnows can leave their starting point anytime after the shark calls them over. A minnow may return to their starting point at any time during play and be safe from being tagged while touching their starting end.

If the shark manages to tag a minnow, the minnow is out of play and becomes a shark in the next round. After all the minnows have either reached their goal wall or been tagged, the shark(s) swim to the opposite side of the pool from the minnows and the cycle starts again.

The game is played until all of the minnows have been tagged, then the last person tagged becomes the shark who starts the next round.

Here are some optional additions to these rules:

• Instead of tagging, sharks must hold some part of the minnow's body for three whole seconds before they become a shark
• No underwater tag: sharks can only tag minnows when some part of the minnow is above water
• Minnows can call "Early bird!" and start swimming to their goal before the shark has called them across. This can be prevented by the shark calling "No early birds!" at the start of the round.

Pool Game - Marco Polo

Marco Polo is a form of tag played in a swimming pool. It is a simple game that can be played with two or more players.

To play, One player is chosen as "It". That person closes his or her eyes, or is blindfolded, and counts to a certain number (usually 10 or 20). While the “it” person counts, the other players scatter around in the pool.

After counting to the pre-determined number, the “it” player tries to tag the other players, using only the sound of their voices to find them. The player who is "It" shouts out "Marco" and the other players must respond by shouting "Polo", which "It" uses to try to acoustically locate them.

When the “it” player tags another, that player becomes the “it” person and the game starts over again.

During the game, if "It" thinks that someone has climbed out of the pool, he or she can shout "fish out of water", and if anyone is out of the water they become "It". If someone sits on the side of the pool with their legs in the water, "It" can call out "mermaid on the rocks", or "fish out of water" and that player becomes "It".

Pool Game - Colors

A player is picked to be "it".  The player who is "it" then swims to one side of the pool and turns their back to the other swimmers who are lined up in the water on the opposite side of the pool as "it". 

Players choose a color and keep it to themselves (To make it easier you can limit the color choices, like to the colors of the rainbow). "It" begins to call out colors one at a time.  If a player's color is picked then the player tries to make it to the other side of the pool as quietly as they can. 

If "it" hears a player swimming then "it" turns around and tries to tag the player before they swim back to the side of the pool where they started.

If "it" turns around and the players still have a hand on the side of the pool then "it" returns to the side of the pool where they started and starts calling out colors again.

If "it" catches a swimmer then the swimmer becomes the new "it".

Pacific Pools receives a Best of Class Award for 2011

Pacific Pools receives a Swimming Pool Innovations Best of Class Award for 2011 from Poolandspa.com.  The award program recognizes outstanding and superior products, innovation and/or customer service in the pool & spa industry.

Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The Awards for this year were based on a combination of factors including product inspections and phone interviews, as well as very detailed consumer input through the use of a third-party consumer survey company.  Over 50,000 consumers were polled throughout 2008 to the present.  The 2011 Best Of Class Award Program focused on quality, not necessarily quantity.

Personal Financing

In case you haven’t already heard, Pacific Pools has teamed up with Lending Club to finally offer personal financing for that Pacific pool of your dreams!

Lending Club is an online financial community that brings together creditworthy borrowers and savvy investors so that both can benefit financially. We replace the high cost and complexity of bank lending with a faster, smarter way to borrow and invest.

The Lending Club experience is truly liberating. You can join in minutes. If you're borrowing, you can apply for a loan and get an instant rate quote. Everything is done online, so the whole process is fast, confidential, private, and secure.

With fixed rates starting as low as 6.78% APR*, no hidden fees, and a maximum of $35,000 allowance this is the perfect time to invest in a Pacific pool.

Apply for personal financing with Pacific Pools and Lending Club by visiting the application page HERE.



* Rate based on A1 Loan Grade, subject to credit approval. All loans made by WebBank, a Utah-chartered Industrial Bank. Annual percentage rates can range from 6.78% (A1) to 27.46% (G5). Your actual rate depends upon credit score, loan amount, loan term, and credit usage & history.

Eight Manufacturers Recall Pool and In-Ground Spa Drain Covers Due to Incorrect Ratings

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firms named below, announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer products. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.

Pool owners/operators and consumers who have one of the recalled pool or spa drain covers should immediately contact the manufacturer to receive a replacement or retrofit, depending on their make and model. Except for kiddie pools, wading pools and in-ground spas, retrofit or replacement of installed covers are not required in pools with multiple drain systems or gravity drainage systems or for covers installed before December 19, 2008.

The recalled drain covers were incorrectly rated to handle the flow of water through the cover, which could pose a possible entrapment hazard to swimmers and bathers.

No Incidents/Injuries have been reported.

Manufacturers: A&A Manufacturing, of Phoenix, Ariz.; AquaStar Pool Products Inc., of San Diego, Calif.; Color Match Pool Fittings, of Surprise, Ariz.; Custom Molded Products, of Tyrone, Ga.; Hayward Pool Products, of Elizabeth, N.J.; Pentair Water Pool and Spa, of Sanford, N.C.; Rising Dragon USA, of E. Sweetwater, Tenn.; and Waterway Plastics, of Oxnard, Calif.

The recall involves various pool and spa drain covers that can be identified by the manufacturers’ name and model information listed below. Visit each firm’s website for photos of recalled drain cover models.

Company	Their website	Dates Sold	Remedy
A&A	www.aamfg.com	Dec. 2008-Apr. 2011	Replacement or Retrofit
AquaStar	www.aquastarpoolproducts.com	Dec. 2008-Apr.2011	Replacement or Retrofit
Color Match	www.poolfittings.com	Dec. 2008 – Apr. 2011	Replacement or Retrofit
Custom Molded Products	www.c-m-p.com	Dec. 2008-Apr. 2011	Replacement or Retrofit
Hayward Pool Products	www.hayward-pool.com	Dec. 2008 – Apr. 2011	Replacement or Retrofit
Pentair Water Pool & Spa	www.pentairpool.com	June 2009 – Apr. 2011	Replacement or Retrofit
Rising Dragon	www.risingdragonplastics.com	Dec. 2008 – Apr. 2011	Replacement or Retrofit
Waterway	www.waterwayplastics.com	Dec. 2008 – Apr. 2011	Replacement or Retrofit

Consumers with drain covers from Waterway Plastics should contact the firm toll-free at (866) 719-6044 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. PT, or visit the manufacturer’s web site at http://www.waterwayplastics.com/.

For additional information, consumers should contact the Drain Cover Recall Hotline toll-free at (866) 478-3521 any time, or visit the Drain Cover Recall website at www.apsp.org/draincoverrecall.