Below is a letter from another happy Pool Guard customer!
Thank you both so much for going above and beyond the call of duty by making our pool inspection deadline. You don't know how much you have helped us by coming out the same day, with hours notice, to install our Pool Guard Safety fence. You got it installed quickly and it looks fabulous!
We are very satisfied with the look and color of our fence. We would definitely recommend your company to anyone interested in installing a pool safety fence. please feel free to contact us or use our name as a reference for future use.If it was not for your perfect customer service we may not have been in our pool for another week or two. You have allowed our family to enjoy our pool for the Labor Day holiday. Thanks a ton!
The Barrick Family
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
The ABCD of Pool Safety
Drownings and near drownings are on the rise in the valley this summer. The accidents happen every year, but so far this year appears to be worse than others. Theres a good chance of not hearing a child who's in the process of drowning. That's why constant, visual contact is the only option.
More than swimming lessons are needed to protect your child from drowning. Water play can turn tragic in a matter of seconds, and you may not hear it happen. "Drowning is known as the silent death," says Scott Allison with Clark County Fire Department. "So there's very little splashing and hardly ever any kind of noise or yelling or whatever." It's a point thats driven home in video of a near drowning. A child slips to the bottom of this pool unnoticed. She doesn't flail or yell, as some might expect. The lifeguards missed it. They tell us there were only two of them watching a pool with more than a hundred swimmers.
Fortunately the girl was rescued quickly thanks to a high tech computer system. It uses cameras that scan the pool for motionless swimmers. The cameras are both inside the pool and above it. The system sets off an alarm. It alerts lifeguards to potential problems. In case they don't see it on their own.
Not available yet in las vegas, but could be soon in commercial pools here. Most child drownings occur in the family's own backyard. Toddlers are most at risk because they usually can't swim and they're adventurous. To protect your family, experts recommend installing a child safety fence. It should be at least four feet high and surround the pool completely, because this kind of tragedy can occur in minutes.
It's something Cierra Sonetti knows all too well. Her son Austin nearly drowned two years ago in his grandfather's pool. It happened during a family party, with several adults. "I couldn't even explain to you what happened because it happened that quick," Sonetti said. "I think he tried walking on the pool cover and my husband had actually pulled the pool cover back and found him," Sonetti explains. "He was just lifeless and just blue and soaking wet."
Austin is now 3. He suffered brain damage and is in a vegetative state. Cierra spends most of her time caring for him. "It's 150 percent preventable and no family needs to go through it," says Sonetti. It's a message echoed by the Clark County Fire Department in a new public service campaign.
Just a few minutes of oxygen deprivation can lead to permanent brain damage or death. "It's been the worst experience of our life, but we still have him," Sonetti said. "And he's here with us. And it is a lot of work to take care of but I wouldn't trade it. I wouldn't change it for anything."
The fire department wants to remind you about drowning prevention.
A stands for adult supervision, with eye contact. As we showed you, you might not hear anything. B is for barriers like pool fences and alarms. C is for classes. Swimming classes for your kids and CPR for you. D stands for devices. Things like life jackets and rescue tools. However, you should not depend on a floatation device to keep your child safe!
More than swimming lessons are needed to protect your child from drowning. Water play can turn tragic in a matter of seconds, and you may not hear it happen. "Drowning is known as the silent death," says Scott Allison with Clark County Fire Department. "So there's very little splashing and hardly ever any kind of noise or yelling or whatever." It's a point thats driven home in video of a near drowning. A child slips to the bottom of this pool unnoticed. She doesn't flail or yell, as some might expect. The lifeguards missed it. They tell us there were only two of them watching a pool with more than a hundred swimmers.
Fortunately the girl was rescued quickly thanks to a high tech computer system. It uses cameras that scan the pool for motionless swimmers. The cameras are both inside the pool and above it. The system sets off an alarm. It alerts lifeguards to potential problems. In case they don't see it on their own.
Not available yet in las vegas, but could be soon in commercial pools here. Most child drownings occur in the family's own backyard. Toddlers are most at risk because they usually can't swim and they're adventurous. To protect your family, experts recommend installing a child safety fence. It should be at least four feet high and surround the pool completely, because this kind of tragedy can occur in minutes.
It's something Cierra Sonetti knows all too well. Her son Austin nearly drowned two years ago in his grandfather's pool. It happened during a family party, with several adults. "I couldn't even explain to you what happened because it happened that quick," Sonetti said. "I think he tried walking on the pool cover and my husband had actually pulled the pool cover back and found him," Sonetti explains. "He was just lifeless and just blue and soaking wet."
Austin is now 3. He suffered brain damage and is in a vegetative state. Cierra spends most of her time caring for him. "It's 150 percent preventable and no family needs to go through it," says Sonetti. It's a message echoed by the Clark County Fire Department in a new public service campaign.
Just a few minutes of oxygen deprivation can lead to permanent brain damage or death. "It's been the worst experience of our life, but we still have him," Sonetti said. "And he's here with us. And it is a lot of work to take care of but I wouldn't trade it. I wouldn't change it for anything."
The fire department wants to remind you about drowning prevention.
A stands for adult supervision, with eye contact. As we showed you, you might not hear anything. B is for barriers like pool fences and alarms. C is for classes. Swimming classes for your kids and CPR for you. D stands for devices. Things like life jackets and rescue tools. However, you should not depend on a floatation device to keep your child safe!
Monday, August 27, 2007
Pool Fences in New York
We’re only in our 5th week of summer and there have been several children deaths on Long Island, New York already due to parents not putting safety fences around their pools. Pool Guard of New York is saddened by these horrific accidents and has their families’ thoughts in our prayers.
“Up North” folks tend to believe if they have a 6 foot fence around their property, that should be enough protection from potential pool accidents; but, they forget that most of these accidents are from the children living inside these 6 foot fences, not outside of them. If parents want to have pools, whether they are in-ground, above ground, blow up, no matter what the size, they also have to put safety pool fencing around it. It’s that simple. Take it from us; Pool Guard’s owners are also firemen with a vast knowledge of protecting and keeping children safe.
Pool Guard of New York, Inc. provides the highest quality, most durable, safety fencing in the marketplace. We can not stress and advocate enough the importance of Pool Guard’s safety fences and protection products. Pool Guard of New York has many children, several pets, and don’t forget all the nieces and nephews that visit on a daily basis, swimming in our pools and enjoying family time together. If we didn’t have our own Pool Guard Safety Fences and self-closing gates, we wouldn’t allow our family in the backyard to even play ball. Safety fences MUST BE INSTALLED IMMEDIATELY if you don’t already have one. Let’s protect our children and pets year round. Let Pool Guard protect your most valuable treasures.
“Up North” folks tend to believe if they have a 6 foot fence around their property, that should be enough protection from potential pool accidents; but, they forget that most of these accidents are from the children living inside these 6 foot fences, not outside of them. If parents want to have pools, whether they are in-ground, above ground, blow up, no matter what the size, they also have to put safety pool fencing around it. It’s that simple. Take it from us; Pool Guard’s owners are also firemen with a vast knowledge of protecting and keeping children safe.
Pool Guard of New York, Inc. provides the highest quality, most durable, safety fencing in the marketplace. We can not stress and advocate enough the importance of Pool Guard’s safety fences and protection products. Pool Guard of New York has many children, several pets, and don’t forget all the nieces and nephews that visit on a daily basis, swimming in our pools and enjoying family time together. If we didn’t have our own Pool Guard Safety Fences and self-closing gates, we wouldn’t allow our family in the backyard to even play ball. Safety fences MUST BE INSTALLED IMMEDIATELY if you don’t already have one. Let’s protect our children and pets year round. Let Pool Guard protect your most valuable treasures.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Drowning Education and Prevention
Some officials have said that August is the deadliest month for child drowning. Here in Arizona many people are getting involved to raise awareness including the Phoenix police and fire departments, local news stations as well as some local pool fence and home builder companies.
After drowning had decreased in 2006, so far in 2007 11 children have drowned in the Phoenix Metro area, all of which were 100% preventable. Everyone has stepped up their efforts to get the word out "2 seconds is too long", a slogan made famous to help prevent child drowning. We try to educate parents to never take your eyes off your child around water, to ensure that you have a pool fence that fully enclosing your pool with a self closing gate. We also teach them to learn CPR.
Having these things in place may prevent your child from drowning. No one will ever know the pain a child drowning can cause until they have lived through it. It's part of our mission to educate these folks just how tragic it would be so that they never have to live with the brokenness of losing a child to a preventable drowning.
After drowning had decreased in 2006, so far in 2007 11 children have drowned in the Phoenix Metro area, all of which were 100% preventable. Everyone has stepped up their efforts to get the word out "2 seconds is too long", a slogan made famous to help prevent child drowning. We try to educate parents to never take your eyes off your child around water, to ensure that you have a pool fence that fully enclosing your pool with a self closing gate. We also teach them to learn CPR.
Having these things in place may prevent your child from drowning. No one will ever know the pain a child drowning can cause until they have lived through it. It's part of our mission to educate these folks just how tragic it would be so that they never have to live with the brokenness of losing a child to a preventable drowning.
Monday, August 13, 2007
Pool Fence Custom Color Combinations
As a Pool Guard pool safety fence dealer in the Dallas Ft. Worth market, I have had many satisfied customers with being able to offer customized color combinations with our pool fence. Many customers are trying to match their pool fence with their house trim to have that perfect fit on new home builds. Thanks to Pool Guard for offering endless custom colors for their pool fences. This makes it easy to offer swimming pool safety to our customers.
Andy Hines
Pool Guard of Dallas
Andy Hines
Pool Guard of Dallas
My Doggy Door is a Danger
We have a doggy door for our Jack Russell, but the problem is our children can also pass through the doggy door as well. Thank goodness for our Pool Safety Fence.
I ran to answer the phone the other day and my three year old crawled through the doggy door and was sitting next to the pool.
Had we not had the pool safety fence, it would have certainly been a tragedy.
I ran to answer the phone the other day and my three year old crawled through the doggy door and was sitting next to the pool.
Had we not had the pool safety fence, it would have certainly been a tragedy.
Monday, August 6, 2007
CPR Saves Lives
Every summer we hear about the tragedy of a child drowning in a swimming pool. North Las Vegas firefighters say they want to be prepared so they can save lives. They are spending the next couple of days using valley pools to train on water rescue. So far this year, there have been 31 near drownings and 5 drownings in the valley. With numbers like these, North Las Vegas Fire says they have to keep their skills up. That is why they train, testing their response in worst case scenarios. Firefighters say it is not only good training for them, it is good practice for young lifeguards. But keep in mind, most drownings do not happen in public pools.
Susie Kochevar, of North Las Vegas Fire, says "Most drowning happen in home pools". So paramedics say be prepared and always keep a watchful eye. They recommend thinking about putting a fence around the pool and to learn CPR. Paramedics say good CPR performed in the first four minutes can increase a person's chance of surviving by 300%.
Susie Kochevar, of North Las Vegas Fire, says "Most drowning happen in home pools". So paramedics say be prepared and always keep a watchful eye. They recommend thinking about putting a fence around the pool and to learn CPR. Paramedics say good CPR performed in the first four minutes can increase a person's chance of surviving by 300%.
Saltwater Chlorine Generators & Corrosion
Saltwater Chlorine generators that have become very popular over the last few years are proving to have a serious side effect, corrosion!
I have read that many pool decks, pavers, natural stone and grout products are being etched or otherwise corroded by the excessive salt left on the pool deck when splashed water evaporates. I have personally seen inferior safety fences and Safety Net anchors that have corroded or rusted in place and on the pool deck. One customer had me replace a non-aluminum gate with one of Pool Guards’ because their gate completely rusted in the deck. I also had a customer that asked me to replace their Safety Net anchors in the deck with our Plastic resin anchors due to significant corrosion with their metal anchors. Potential safety fence customers should realize that all products are not created equal and that Pool Guard has reinforced, power coated aluminum poles that are corrosion resistant to salt. As you know, we have been installing this product for many years on ocean seawalls with great success so I know salt from a swimming pool will not corrode a Pool Guard fence.
I have read that many pool decks, pavers, natural stone and grout products are being etched or otherwise corroded by the excessive salt left on the pool deck when splashed water evaporates. I have personally seen inferior safety fences and Safety Net anchors that have corroded or rusted in place and on the pool deck. One customer had me replace a non-aluminum gate with one of Pool Guards’ because their gate completely rusted in the deck. I also had a customer that asked me to replace their Safety Net anchors in the deck with our Plastic resin anchors due to significant corrosion with their metal anchors. Potential safety fence customers should realize that all products are not created equal and that Pool Guard has reinforced, power coated aluminum poles that are corrosion resistant to salt. As you know, we have been installing this product for many years on ocean seawalls with great success so I know salt from a swimming pool will not corrode a Pool Guard fence.
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