Good Parenting

Florida and swimming pools go hand in hand. When we first moved into our home, our pool didn’t have an enclosure. Therefore, all the leaves from the huge tree in the front dumped into it, and it was really hard to maintain. We ended up getting an enclosure, and then the pool was freezing cold! Those of you with pools, you can learn from my mistake here. We bought a heat pump that was similar to an air conditioning unit, only it was a heater for the pool. You set it at whatever temperature, and it will kick on and off to keep it just right. Well, we didn’t purchase the cheapest model, we picked the one in the middle. It also had a 10 year warranty. About a year and a half after using it, it broke. Oil was leaking into our pool! I phoned the company, and to my surprise, they went out of business! Just my luck, they made their own parts also. I called around and had so many people come look at it, only to tell me that there was no way to make it work. I had a $5,500 piece of junk that I was still making payments on that I simply had to throw away!

Swimming pools are definitely a money pit, but when you have kids, they can also be lots of fun. Did you know that over 900 children between the age of one and fourteen die each and every year from drowning accidents? Drowning is the main cause of accidental death for kids between the ages of one through four in the state of California alone. I’m sure you really do not need these figures to convince you to do everything you can to prevent this from happening to your own children, grandchildren or small pet?

A Pool Protector Pool Alarm is something that nobody with a pool should be without. It’s an electric monitoring type of system that automatically emits an alarm when children or animals fall into your unsupervised pool. It sits on the pool deck, and it is portable, self-contained and very light weight, and best of all, it’s simple to operate. Entry into the swimming pool will be detected by the pool alarm’s electric sensor, tripping a loud alarm at the unit and in your house from the remote receiver.

The pool alarm installation is very easy, and after you install it, it won’t be de-activated because it’s always in the alarm ready mode until you manually put it into the sleep mode. It comes with a remote receiver which can be mounted in your house up to two hundred ft. from the main unit. It also comes with a twelve volt power supply. It uses one 9-volt battery that should last approximately one year. There is a audible low battery indicator that sounds at the poolside alarm and the remote receiver. It is something no caring family should be without if you have a pool with young children around.

Yours In Safety,

Regina Jacques

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This entry was posted on Sunday, July 5th, 2009 at 9:07 pm and is filed under Good Parenting.