Archive for Swimming Pool News

Swimming pool chemicals are one of our core products here at 1st-Direct with almost all variations of chemical kept in stock across our branches.
Following some analysis this morning we have worked out that during this season so far, 1st-Direct have dispatched in excess of 20 tonnes worth of swimming pool chemicals to the general public. [...]

Sat in the office yesterday with minimal staff managing to make it into work we have decided to take a bold step and freeze all of our prices at the massively cheaper 2008 prices for the rest of this month.
INFACT – a lot of our swimming pool products such as pumps, filters and heat pumps [...]

The Daily Mail have today released an article about how Heather Mills is fighting to keep her £1million swimming pool at her residence in Robertsbridge, East Sussex.
Apparently the star decided to have her extrememly expensive new swimming pool built without the thought for planning permission. At 40ft x 22ft it’s a fair size swimming pool [...]

In and around our area there are a fair few schools with swimming pools. Inevitably we supply them with a lot of their chemicals. Recently we were called out to a local primary school to drop off some chlorine and when we got there we were amazed at what we found.
The school had just laid [...]

We’ve come across this crazy man from America who’s decided he wants to spend his days diving into just 12 inches of water – that’s a paddling pool!!
He is now the world record holder for the highest shallow dive into 12 inches of water. I can’t imagine there’s much competition to try and take it [...]

A new craze is sweeping across the UK called ‘dipping’. Dipping involves identifying private homes with outdoor swimming pools and then ‘dipping’ in the pool, without permission, when the owners are away at work or on holiday.
Police in Dorset have reported illegal pool parties, or dips, having been arranged using Google earth to identify suitable [...]