Yes, in that order, and yes, on purpose. Three add-ons, three acts, and by the end of the third one they are playing together instead of just sitting in the same backyard. None of it is in the price of the pool and none of it is needed to swim. This is the difference between owning a pool and having the best backyard on the street.
A pool with no lights is a hole you cannot use after eight o'clock. This is the least expensive upgrade on the page and the one that changes the most, because it roughly doubles the hours you get out of the thing.
We standardise on one fixture: the Pentair MicroBrite Color LED, 12 volt, nicheless, 100 foot cord, model 620425. One answer, specified the same way on every job, which is how you end up with a crew that never has to guess.
Installs in any standard 1.5 inch wall fitting. No large traditional niche to deal with, which on a fiberglass shell genuinely matters.
Three and a half inches means it goes on steps, benches, sun ledges, spas and narrow walls. It can face up in water as shallow as four inches.
Pentair builds it for lighting uniformity rather than raw output, so you get even light instead of one bright patch and a lot of shadow.
Connects to any Pentair automation system, including the Color Sync controller, so colour and shows are a control rather than a wall switch you flick twice.
Fixture count is not a guess, but it is not a formula either. Pentair is explicit that perceived light depends on the model, the depth and angle it is set at, the pool finish, the shape and geometry, and how much other light is already in the yard. Here is where we start.
Elegant illumination for the homeowner who does not care about changing colour. Same fixture, same install, white light. Cheaper, and honestly still beautiful.
For a typical 12 by 24 pool we start with two, positioned to throw light away from the house and the main seating sightlines rather than into your eyes. A third goes in when there is a substantial tanning ledge, steps, or another area that would otherwise sit in shadow.
Separate zones for the pool, the sun ledge, the steps, the spa or a water feature, so each area can be lit on its own instead of all of them at once.
Specifications and product photography from Pentair. See the full MicroBrite page at pentair.com
Not a tarp with water bags. An Integra automatic cover runs on tracks along the deck and closes with the flip of a switch, in one quiet motion, in about the time it takes to carry the cooler inside.
It is certified to ASTM F1346, the recognised standard for pool safety covers, which means it was tested as a real barrier rather than marketed as one. Integra engineers theirs to support 485 pounds. Read that number again and then think about a four year old and a dog.
A proven protective barrier that keeps children and pets out of the water when you are not watching.
It holds heat in overnight, so in Ohio you are swimming earlier in spring and later into fall.
Leaves, dirt and debris stay on top of the cover instead of on the bottom of your pool.
Less evaporation, less skimming, less strain on the equipment. More of the summer spent in the water.
Video and photography courtesy of Integra Pool Covers. Cover colours and sizing are confirmed at the measure visit. See the colour range at integrapoolcovers.com
Hayward OmniLogic is the panel that replaces every dial, timer and mystery switch on your equipment pad with one app. Pump speeds, heater, water features, salt, lighting circuits, schedules. Set a theme called Friday Night and the pool sets itself.
It also answers to Alexa, which sounds like a gimmick right up until you are standing in the kitchen with wet hands telling the pool to warm up.
Specifications and product photography from Hayward. See the full product page at hayward.com
This is the part that sells itself. OmniLogic has a setting called Automatic Cover Scale-Back Mode. When an electronic cover closes, the panel automatically dials back the pump, the chlorinator and the heater, because a covered pool does not need the same run time, the same chlorine or the same heat to stay ready.
So the cover protects your family, the panel turns that into lower running costs every single night, and the lights come up on a schedule you set once. Three upgrades, one running order, and nobody has to remember to do anything.
Everything above makes the pool better. A heater makes the season better. In Central Ohio the water is honestly swimmable from about Memorial Day to Labor Day. Add a heater and you are in it in early May and still in it in the middle of October. That is sixty-plus days a year you already paid for and never got.
It runs on the same OmniLogic panel from act three, so heat is a setting in the app rather than a dial on the pad, and it scales itself back when the cover closes.
An estimate, not a quote, and we would rather show you the arithmetic than a number with no working. Real cost moves with your rate, the weather, the size of your pool, the temperature you hold, and whether the cover is closed. A cover is the single biggest lever, which is why it is act two. Gas heats three to five times faster and costs meaningfully more per day to run; Hayward puts heat pump operating costs at 50 to 75 percent below gas.
Pulls warmth out of the air instead of burning anything. Slowest to raise temperature, by far the cheapest to hold it, and it wants outdoor air above about 50°F to work at its best. The right answer for most people in this market.
On demand heat, three to five times faster to come up to temperature. The pick if you swim on impulse or on weekends rather than every evening. Needs a gas line run to the pad.
The same speed and the same behaviour as natural gas, fed from a tank instead of a utility line. The answer when there is no gas at the house.
We fit Hayward heaters in all three fuels, and we are not going to bury you in model numbers here. Sizing depends on your pool, your yard and how you actually use it, so we spec the exact unit at the measure visit and it goes on the quote as its own line. See the Hayward heater range
None of this is in the price of the Everest, the Maldives, el Capitan or the Sacred, and none of it is a surprise later. Ask at the measure visit and each act goes on the written quote as its own line, lights and cover and automation and heat, so you can see exactly what each one adds and take only the ones you want.
Somewhere in Central Ohio, on a FridaySend this and an owner calls you the same business day. We come out, measure the yard, look at how we get equipment back there, and hand you a written price before we leave. About forty five minutes.
No deposit. No obligation. Nobody puts you on a drip campaign. And bring the other guy's quote, because beating it is the whole point.
(614) 714-1024Your enquiry is in front of Tiffany and Andrew. Not a call centre, not a rep on commission, not a form that goes into a queue. The two people who own this company.
