Swiming Pool Lights

Dangers that lurk in your landscape

Don't place large shrubs or tall walls in your line of vision where seeing pedestrians is necessary. Plan for visibility when pulling out to the street from your driveway. Keep clear lines of vision for several hundred feet where you intersect thoroughfares. If you want to screen your property, design walls or screening shrubs so that your car is past them before you reach the sidewalk or street. Steps are one of the trickiest landscape elements to negotiate, usually because they are incorrectly designed. They should not be built too steeply. We have a different gait outdoors, and stairs should be more expansive to accommodate that. The absolute maximum riser height (vertical rise) per step should be six inches, and the tread size (stepping surface) should never be less than 14 inches. Lighting water entails another set of safety considerations. Mixing electricity and water can be dangerous. Be sure to use only UL-approved equipment. The installer's electrician usually wires swimming pool lights directly into a 110-volt line. Install recessed lighting fixtures in swimming pools. Place grills or grates over the fixtures so debris and swimmers do not damage them. Given the high consciousness today for the safe use of insecticides, herbicides, fungicides and other chemicals, look for bio-rational alternatives that are safer and more environmentally friendly than many synthetic materials. Remember, they're still chemicals. If you're applying them yourself, you'll want two sprayers to avoid damaging your plants. Use one for total brush killers (non-selective herbicides), and another for lawn weed killers, fertilizers and insecticides.

The 10 Most Dangerous Parts of Your Swimming Pool

In the back of their minds, all swimming pool owners know the risk of having a silent, lurking body of water in the back yard. Even more so for families with children, a swimming pool can be a silent killer. Consider this top ten list of the most common, and most dangerous swimming pool deficiencies:<br>

10) Electrical<br>

Proper electrical wiring for a swimming pool and all its components is critical since water, electricity and people are a dangerous mix. Swimming pools, and all metal components within one meter of the water line should be bonded with a heavy ground wire loop. Additionally all electrical devices that come into close contact with water such as pumps and lights must be properly connected with a GFIC or ground fault interrupter.

9) Slippery Decks<br>

As swimming pool deck surfaces age and weather they will develop algae and become very slippery, especially in wet conditions. To reduce the likelihood of falling or slipping on a pool deck, you should pressure wash your deck yearly. Additionally a silica sand can be added to your concrete sealer to provide a more textured and slip resistant surface.

Ladders & Stairs<br>

Stairs and ladders are a very common place for injury in a swimming pool. Coloured nosing tile is used to accentuate step edges in many pools, which helps to define the step edges under the moving water. The likelihood for a fall or injury increases at night, and also even more so if there is no underwater swimming pool light to illuminate the water. Ladders often have hand rails installed into the pool deck which can become loose over time. If the ladder rails shift as you are climbing out of the water, this will greatly increase the risk of a fall.

7) Water Quality<br>

Do not underestimate your green swimming pool. Harmful bacteria can reside in poorly maintained water. It is critical to ensure that the water quality is suitable for swimming to prevent infections and staph infections of the eyes, ears, nose and throat. Chemical levels in the water can also affect those prone to skin reactions.

6) Chemical Storage<br>

Your swimming pool chemicals are a potent mix of strong acids, alkalines and poisons. Even worse is that many of these chemicals specifically react with one another, yet they are often stored in the same location with little effort to keep them safe. Chemicals should be researched and stored in a controlled, dry and locked location at all times.

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