A pool can contain more than just water. In fact, there are a variety of pool toys that allow owners to take their favorite activities right into the water. Love ping pong? Get the floating pool pong game. If paddles aren’t for you or you want a more mindless source of fun, why not add on a super slide?

Sure, toys are fun, but bills aren’t. Pools can take a lot of energy and cause costs to skyrocket. Variable speed pumps are upgrades that adjust water flow based on the task and they can cut energy usage and costs by up to 90 percent! This amounts to about $1,500 in annual savings.

What else isn’t fun? Manually cleaning a pool. It takes lots of time and effort to clean up debris and other buildup. With today’s technological innovations, robotic pool cleaners do all the hard labor for you. Some can even clean any shape and size pool in less than 3 hours. The best part is the limited set up. Most you can take out of the box, plug in, and they’re ready to go.

So why not add some new upgrades or flair to a pool with a new summer season? Reducing work and bills or creating more fun is a smart investment.

Water slides and outdoor swimming pool in water park Serena. Suomi: Ulkoliukumäkiä vesipuisto Serenassa. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

You don't need this much sand. (Photo credit: David Stanley)

There are a couple of pros and cons to using the sand filter. The first pro is that the sand filters do not have to be cleaned as much as the cartridge filters. The second pro is that the filter does not have to be taken apart when a person goes to wash it. The third pro is that it is easy to prime the pump because all a person has to do is bleed the air from the filter. The first con is the amount of time that is takes to backwash the sand filter. This process usually takes about 30 minutes to do.

There are not really pros to using the cartridge filter. The first con is that a person is going to need a screwdriver is clean up the filter. The second con is that a person is going to have to use the screwdriver to take the filter apart and reassemble it. The third con is that it can be a very messy job when a person goes to clean up the filter. The fourth con is that it will take a person a long time to clean and reassemble the filter.

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