Billiard Cloth
When it comes to picking a color and type of cloth for your pool table it can sometimes be a struggle. If you are selecting a color for your new table or for recovering you existing table, I suggest selecting a color that is more of an accent color in your room. With such a big splash of color you don’t want your area to be too monochromatic. I know I’m no designer, but I always seem to find customers agree with that perspective. We carry tons of different colors so I’m sure we will have something that will work in your rec room. Everything we carry is also Teflon protected for easy clean up and durability. We also carry blended cloth to ensure the longest possible life for your cloth. Some higher wool cloth might play slightly faster and have less resistance, but they tend to wear more quickly while actually costing more. If you are in need of some new cloth be sure to stop and check out our selection of colors…and if you don’t want to change it yourself you can always have our service department do it for you. Hope to see you soon!
Craig
Darts, Darts, Darts
I’m not sure everyone is even aware that we have darts here at Eastgate Pools, but we not only have darts (steel tip and soft tip), we also have boards, cabinets, and most other accessories you might need. I played a lot of darts in college and really came to enjoy the game and I think it is a game that more people would enjoy if more people set up a board in their house. One of the best things about darts is that it is a game where you can really develop some skill…and you don’t have to spend a whole lot of money to get started. For me steel tip darts is the way to go, but we have plenty of soft tip options for younger players along with several electronic boards that will keep score for you. I encourage you all to consider giving darts a try. I’m sure you will like it.
Craig
Last Minute Gift Idea!
Dos thinks this Ashford Pool Table is a great deal for that special someone in your life.
What Spa Mode To Operate On
Customers often ask which spa mode they should operate their spa on for peak energy efficiency. The two most common modes are “standard” and “economy”. The standard mode operates much like setting the thermostat on your home HVAC unit, one places the temperature where they would like it and the spa will stay there all the time.
Winterizing Your Spa
First of all, I don’t understand why anyone would want to winterize a spa. Most of our customers find that using “their spa on a cold winters day, is just the thing their body needs to warm up the bones and take care of all of their aches and pains. The tough part of using the spa in the winter, is getting to the spa in the cold. Once you are in a spa, one could care less if there is a blizzard raging! Getting out is easy as well, the entire body is warm to the core and one barely feels the cold on the way back to the house. For those that are resolute on winterizing their spa, here are some tips.
One of the Possible Attractions you Might See at Eastgate…
I don’t know that anyone has ever brought up one of the frequent visitors here in the store, but several times during the pool season you might stop in and see a spider monkey named Nikki wearing a diaper. While the monkey never buys anything she does hang around and provide us and all the other patrons with the unique opportunity to get up close and personal with a pretty entertaining creature. She is over twenty years old and has been with the family for nearly her entire life. She has a little bit of belly on her and generally spends here time in the store sitting down with her arms resting on top of it. Last time she was in the store I loaded a case of liquid chlorine for the customer and I’m pretty sure Nikki laughed at me. Her handlers said it was a chirp, but I think she just thought I was funny looking. It is always fun to see her, but we have to make sure that Dos, the store cat, isn’t around because they don’t seem to get along too well. There you go, just one more reason Eastgate Pools & Spas is a great place to visit.
Craig
Pool Tables At Absurd Prices . . .
I know people don’t necessarily think of pool tables as a seasonal item, but we tend to sell the majority of our pool tables when the temperatures start to drop. Currently we have some unbelievable prices on many of our tables. Nearly every table is at “Price Blowout” pricing, which means you are getting the table below even the lowest sale prices we have offered. If you are thinking about getting a table for your home or have thought about it in the past there has literally never been a better time than now in the nearly eight years I’ve worked here. Please stop and see what great values we have for you…I’m sure you won’t regret it. Hope to see you soon!
Craig
The Alphabet, As Seen Through the Eyes of a Pool & Hot Tub Veteran
Above ground pools. Started building them in the summer of 1974.
Black Diamond. Cartridge filters that don’t collapse and last longer.
Cyanuric Acid. Better known as chlorine stabilizer, it gives life to chlorine.
Diatomaceous Earth. An alternative to sand or cartridge filters. Ugh!
E-Z Drain above ground winter covers. GREAT innovation!
Floats. Hey, what is a pool without some floats!
Golf. A floating game for the pool. No dirt involved!
Hydromatic. Above ground cartridge filter that saves you time, water, and money!
Innovation=pool lighting, chlorine generators, ionizers, spa sound systems.
Jets. My first spa had 4. My next 26. My current one has 80. Rock on!
Kreepy Krauly. Great automatic pool cleaner. Many customer name theirs!
Lazy Lounge. In-ground pool step and seat, all in one.
Mira. One of our hot tub lines. Made in America by trained craftsmen.
Natural Enzymes. Used on pools and spas to break down oils & reduce work!
Oxidizer. Potassium Monopersulfate. Removes organics from pools & spas.
Pools. Nuff said!
Quality. Products, service, history. Eastgate Pools & Spas
Robotic cleaners. Aquabot, Pool Rover, Nitro. One will fit your budget!
Service Department. Ours is professionally trained & as good as it gets!
Testing. Service and sales are tested for knowledge and procedure.
Umbrellas. Around the pool, on the deck.
Versatility. Not your same old hot tub. Jet, heat, sensory therapy.
Water. 2/3rds of the planet is water and we have your share!
Xylophone. Skip the lessons. Get a pool!
Young. How a hot tub makes you feel. Seriously.
Zeosand. Alternative to filter sand, filters much finer particles with less changing.
Christmas In September????
Well, it is official. It is Christmas in September time. What am I talking about? Well, the other night, the 18th of September, I needed a part for my lawn mower. Being Sunday evening, I visited my nearest big box store to see if they had it. Obviously, NO ONE cuts grass in September as the remaining stock of parts was all thrown into unrecognizable piles on the bottom of a few shelves. Further examination showed why. The former home for merchandise such as mower parts was now occupied by Christmas light sets. Ho, Ho, Ho! Need some casual furniture to enjoy these late summer days and the upcoming beautiful fall days? Good luck here as well. I predict Christmas trees and inflatable snowmen will be in this presently empty space by later this week.
Thank heavens there is no grass at the North Pole for Santa to cut and luckily he is too busy making toys to worry about enjoying beautiful weather sitting out on his deck, patio or porch. But, should he need some outdoor casual furniture, he can always shop Eastgate Pools & Spas as we have a huge selection even when others are making it look a lot like Christmas. In summary, if you need Christmas light sets in September, you are in luck at the Big Box stores, but if you want to enjoy the remaining warm weather, head over to Eastgate Pools and actually have lots of choices.
Investing In Your Pool’s Well Being
What’s new at Eastgate Pools? Well, if you own a pool or spa, you might be interested in knowing that there is lots of “new” to be found at the test center. Within the last week, we have taken delivery of our second brand new, state of the art test lab. The first new lab arrived and went into service a few weeks earlier, replacing an older model. The addition of this second lab gives us the ability to serve two customers simultaneously, meaning shorter wait times on those really busy days when it seems like everyone decided to have their water tested at the same time.
These water test labs are the very latest technology available from Palintest, and they will help insure accurate results that will help us to help you keep your pool or spa water clean, clear and safe. These new labs are costly, but we consider them an investment in your pool’s well being. At Eastgate Pools, we are committed to being your pool or spa professional. Try getting a state of the art water test at those big box stores where they don’t know pool water and they certainly don’t test it!
Add Some Tropical To Your Pool Area
Want to brighten up your pool area? Love to be comfortable? Trying to be more Green? I have the perfect chair for you. Our Tropical Collection Adirondack Chairs from Berlin Gardens will do all of the above for you. Available in 5 bright and fun colors, incredibly comfortable, and made from recycled milk jugs, these chairs are great for the pool area, the deck, patio, porch or wherever a comfortable, long lasting, easy to maintain chair is desired.
Hello Sports Fans!
All the O$U fans OK? If you want to see somebody in a sweater vest again, maybe we can get Max to wear one in the next commercial!!
Bengal fans, at least we can say we were undefeated if they don’t settle the labor issue!!!
And better yet, we won’t have to listen to Mike Brown or Marvin Lewis stumble thru news consferences.
Reds fans are you as frustrated at watching this team as me? Why does Chris Heisey continue to sit? Does Dusty have a crush on Fred Lewis and Johnny Gomes? Anybody else sick of seeing Homer Bailey and Edinson Volquez pitch? Good thing we play in a weak division or we would be 12 games out!!
Bearcat Fans, any chance Butch Jones gets his boys to play better? Brian Kelly sure didn’t leave him much when he left, but I think we are in for a good year. When is the last time 2 players were on a watch list for National Player of the Year??
Xavier fans, not sure what I could talk about with you guys. Do you even have any fall sports teams?
Love to hear from the sports fans, so drop a note!!
Tim
Debunking An Aboveground Myth…#2
The vast majority of our customers that have shopped around for aboveground pools come in to the store looking for a resin pool because that is what they have heard is the best. Well, you won’t get that same endorsement here. The argument is always that resin won’t rust like steel. The question you should immediately ask at that point is why is the wall made of steel then? The reason…steel is stronger. The same applies for toprails and uprights. While it is true that resin doesn’t rust it does chalk, discolor, crack, and warp. If properly protected through hot dip galvanization, and other methods steel will provide you with a much more durable and long lasting pool than resin. Not all resin is bad, but gas assist injection molded resins are far more expensive to produce and that is not what you are going to get with pool “specials”. Our inground pool manufacturer uses the story of bridges to explain why steel is superior and I have to agree. You don’t often see bridges made of plastic. Consider the fact that we have installed over 3200 steel wall inground pools and never replaced a single panel in almost 32 years. If that isn’t validation, I don’t know what is.
Come Help Us Celebrate Our Anniversary!
2011 marks our 31st year in business and we celebrate with our biggest chemical and accessory sale of the year. This year the sale dates are April 29 and 30 and May 1. Thousands of our existing customers have received their sale flyer, but I’d like to invite EVERYONE out there to come in this weekend to see us and save some serious greenbacks.
A lot has happened over the last 31 years. From our quaint little store on Rust Lane—about 600-700 sq. ft.—to our current location with two showrooms and three tents (each tent is bigger than the Rust Lane store), we have grown because of two things. One, we have provided quality products at affordable pricing. Two, we have loyal clientele that keep coming back, year after year. For this, we thank you and reaffirm our commitment to being YOUR store of choice.
So come on in this weekend (or any weekday or weekend you’d like) and see us. Come for the fun (hourly door prizes), free food and drinks (hot dogs and soft drinks), and renewing old friendships (hey—most of us have been here for years). Stop in, sit a spell, save some serious dollars, and tell or listen to the stories. –Max
Aqua Products Repair Service
As we celebrate our 10th year of partnering with Aqua Products, the industry leader in robotic cleaners, as a company we have decided to increase our repair abilities for the full Aqua Products line. In co-operation with Aqua Products, and the assistance of their Technical Service Department, we now have 3 factory trained certified full line Aquabot technicians on staff. We can now offer service to all residential, non-remote control units. If you have any questions in regards to the operation of your cleaner, or it is in need of repair feel free to give us a call @ 513-528-4141 or just bring it in to us.
