You can already picture it: kids in the water, weekends in your own backyard instead of a crowded community pool. The only thing standing between you and that pool is the price tag.

Here's the good news: most pool owners don't pay cash. Below are seven ways to finance a swimming pool, plus what lenders look for, so you can choose the option that fits your budget and start building.

Enjoy functionality and style in a private pool designed for fitness

Form & Function: Unlike generic lap pools at public facilities, the design you have custom built for your backyard can have eye-catching features like this towering planter-cascade waterfall, as well as a private hydrotherapy spa.

Swimming laps is an excellent form of exercise that delivers a full-body workout. While you may currently make them part of your fitness routine at a community pool or public facility, you could be doing so more comfortably in your own residential lap pool!

Understanding solar power and why it’s particularly smart for some pool owners to adopt the technology

Pool solar systems use collectors that absorb the sun’s heat, and then boost pool temperature by circulating water through the collectors where it gets warm. The heated water then routes back into your pool.

Would you like to reduce monthly utility bills for heating your swimming pool? Particularly if you have an older installation with a less-efficient heater and/or if you face other specific factors—described below—that boost pool heating needs, an energy-wise solar system may be the perfect solution for you.

Fitness, family fun, convenience, hydrotherapy, and avoiding public-pool dangers 

Residential pools provide homeowners and their families with multiple opportunities for beneficial exercise, relaxation, and family fun in the privacy of their backyard.

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Along with adding beauty to your outdoor space and value to your home, a swimming pool can contribute to a healthy lifestyle.

Your pool should be the place your family relaxes, not the place you stress about sunscreen. But walk down the sunscreen aisle and you face a wall of bottles, each one claiming to be the best. Pick the wrong one and you risk sunburn, premature aging, and a higher skin cancer risk for the people you love most.

We design backyard pools that families spend their whole summer around, and the right sunscreen is what keeps those days going. Here are 7 simple rules for picking one that actually works in and around the water.

If you’re researching inground pools, you’ve probably seen the term gunite pool everywhere, but no one actually explains what it means or why it matters.

Here’s the short version: a gunite pool is the most durable and customizable type of inground pool you can build. It’s made from a steel-reinforced concrete shell sprayed at high pressure, which creates a structure that can last decades.

You spent good money on a backyard you can actually enjoy. Then mosquitoes show up and your family ends up indoors by 7 p.m.
This guide gives you seven tactics that work. Most cost less than $50, and you can start tonight.