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Florida Pool Pro
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• April 2015
Are we just pool builders anymore?
By Ken McKenna, Tampa Bay Pools, Inc. /
Only a short 14 years ago when I started in the pool business, needing to
know about fire bowls, fire pits, fireplaces, outdoor kitchens, sunken seating
areas and sunken bars, just to name a few items, would have made me laugh.
We build swimming pools. Let someone else worry about those items, if
anyone even asked for them back then. Well, now if you aren’t thinking about
those items and more, you are missing out. We are no longer swimming pool
builders, we are backyard providers.
The term backyard experience is everywhere. Lucas Lagoons, out of
Osprey, FL, has its own reality series called Insane Pools - Off the Deep End.
The pools they are building cost the same as a house did 14 years ago. They
build a backyard oasis, not just a place to cool off. HGTV has highlighted pool
builders from around the country and the backyard experiences these builders
DIGGING UP IDEAS
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