 Pool Guard Safety foundation sponsors the FL Safe Pools swimming pool makeover contest Sun, Fun and Safety is our motto at Florida Safe Pools. That’s why we have teamed up with our friends at the Pool Guard Safety Foundation to give you a chance to win an amazing pool safety makeover. One lucky Tampa Bay resident will win a Pool Guard pool safety fence with a state-of-the-art self latching gate and full installation. The Contest runs through September 5, 2010. Be sure to read the official rules. Complete the information form at: http://flsafepools.com/contest Installation provided by Pool Guard of Tampa Bay. Tampa Pool Guard provides swimming pool safety products such as pool fences, pool nets and pool safety gates. Pool fencing is often referred to as baby fences, baby gates, child safety fence, pool barriers, and removable child gates. Whatever you call it, it can save a child’s life! Call Pool Guard or visit our website for a free quote. www.ATampaPoolFence.com Pool Guard pool fences help keep kids safe 05/26/2010
Pool Guard pool fences help keep kids safe 05/26/2010
 Pool Guard Fences Help Keep Kids Safe By Kevin Post Summer heat means spending time out of doors and in our swimming pools. But to make sure that your little ones don’t attempt an unsupervised dip in the family pool, consider installing a Pool Guard - pool safety fence. Pool Guard of Tampa Bay provides quality swimming pool safety fences that keep kids away from unsupervised pools. In their 15-year history, Pool Guard has installed more than 75,000 fences nationwide. Pool Guard of Tampa Bay has been serving the greater Tampa Bay area for over 5 years. Why consider a Pool Guard fence? Accidents can happen very quickly, even when one or both parents are home. Each year, more than 300 children die nationwide as a result of accidental drowning, and thousands more are treated in emergency rooms. In Florida, drowning is the number one cause of death in children under 5. In response to these incidents, Florida enacted the Residential Pool Barrier Code in 2002. This statute requires that new pool owners either build a barrier around the pool, or install a home security system with an exit alarm on each door or window leading to the pool area. Most people building new swimming pools today choose to install removable pool safety fences with self closing pool gates to keep their families safe. With a Pool Guard pool fence, you can rest assured that your children are protected by a quality product. “We only use top quality, American made products. That includes our premium interlocking mesh, the strongest mesh available on the market today. Pool Guard of Tampa Bay provides a 48-hour turnaround between consultation and installation, and offers free estimates. On average, a removable pool fence can be installed in 2 hours, with prices starting around $400. Pool Guard of Tampa Bay services all of Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco counties including: Westchase, Lutz, Carrollwood, Wesley Chapel, Odessa, Brandon, Palm Harbor, Clearwater, St. Petersburg, Seminole, Largo and Land O’ Lakes. For more information on Pool Safety, contact Pool Guard of Tampa Bay at 813-929-8729 or visit our website at www.atampapoolfence.com This is your new blog post. Click here and start typing, or drag in elements from the top bar. Recent Swimming Pool Safety Statistics- Clearwater FL The National Safety Council reports that 330 children and adults drown annually in home swimming pool. Each year, headlines note the deaths of infants and children who tumble into pools and drown because a gate was left open or they otherwise were able to gain access to a pool when no one was around to save them. Swimming alone or without adult supervision also leads to many drownings. Although many pool accidents are related to running and roughhousing, numerous injuries also are attributed to the pool, its accessories and general environment. A Tampa Pool Fence - Pool Guard of Clearwater, Tampa, St. Petersburg, FL recommends a number of precautionary measures to reduce home pool hazards. 1. There should be a Pool Fence at least four feet high around all sides of the pool (please check your local code requirements; as state/county laws may vary) with a locked Pool Safety Gate to keep children out when there is no supervision. The Pool Safety Fence should be constructed so it’s difficult to climb. Lawn furniture, trees and shrubs should not be close enough to provide an easy boost over the Pool Fence. 2. The steps of the Swimming pool ladder should be at least three inches wide, and the ladder should have handrails on both sides small enough for a child to grasp. 3. There should be a ladder at both ends of the swimming pool. 4. Electrical equipment should be installed by a licensed electrician in accordance with local safety codes. Ground-fault circuit interrupters are now recommended for pool area installations. 5. Check with a reputable pool contractor to be sure the depth is sufficient for a diving board or slide. Always put a slide in a deep area of the pool-- never in shallow water. Clearwater Pool Fencing, Safety fencing Clearwater, Baby Gate Tampa, Pool Fence Safety Tampa Bay including St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Largo, Palm Harbor, Seminole, and New Tampa. See WWW.ATampaPoolFence.com for more information A recent research paper written by our State Health Department titled: Correlation of Pool Drowning Deaths With Number of Residential Swimming Pools by County in Florida, 2005-2007 Michael Lo, Kristal Hall, Lisa VanderWerf-Hourigan, Bob Vincent, and Robert Pryor has quite a bit of information to put toddler drowning deaths into perspective; especially for Hillsborough County FL; Tampa has a large number of residential pools which is correlated with an increased incidence of toddler pool drowning; Making toddler drowning deaths somewhat predictable. We know every year we will loose children. Some Quotes from the paper: Statistical modeling showed that for every 10,000 residential pools that a County has, 2.4 additional pool drowning deaths can be expected to occur over Three years. This relationship was therefore determined to be linearly correlated. Greater public health impact may be achieved by focusing drowning prevention Efforts, especially among young children, in counties with more residential pools; And thus a greater risk of pool drowning Of the 120 young children ages one to four who drowned in confirmed, single-family Residential swimming pools, 82 (68.3%) drowned in a pool at their own Home; nine (7.5%) drowned in a pool at a grandparent, uncle, or other relative’s Home; five (4.2%) drowned in a pool at a friend’s home; five (4.2%) drowned in a Pool at a neighbor’s home; and one (0.8%) each drowned in a pool at a babysitter’s Home, a summer home, or a vacation rental house. Sixteen (13.3%) drowned in a Pool at a home of another or an unspecified individual. Acknowledgments This study was partially supported by grant/cooperative agreement U17/CCU424766-01 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC. The authors thank the Florida county property appraisers’ offices that participated in this study, and Kyla Shelton, Office of Injury Prevention, Florida Department of Health, for technical assistance in analyzing the free-text fields in the death certificate database. see www.atampapoolfence.com fTampa, St.petersburg, Clearwater, Largo, Palm Harbor, Westchase, New Tampa, Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco county Fl. Pool Fence Tampa, Baby fencing by pool Guard Tampa Bay, Pool gate safety  A Tampa Pool Fence AKA Pool Guard of Tampa Bay, a top Pool Fence installation company in Tampa FL has earned the Top Merchant badge with Merchant Circle. This award is given to merchants who distinguish themselves as a reliable and trusted source on MerchantCircle. These merchants rank among the most successful in using MerchantCircle to find customers and promote their business online. See our Website for the latest Pool Fence and Pool fence gate coupons and discounts. www.atampapoolfence.com It‘s pretty common knowledge that 2009 was another rough year in the real estate market and the amount of foreclosures in the Tampa Bay area is very high. Given the geographic location of this area most of those homes have pools, a sign of the recent past economic boom. So what does a bank do when they have repossessed houses with pools that are unprotected? They call Pool Guard of Tampa! Kevin Post of Pool Guard of Tampa Bay has been very busy working with banks and real estate brokers to provide pool safety fences and pool safety nets for many vacant properties. “We live in a litigious society and these Pools have really become a liability providing more exposure than we are comfortable with, so we have to call the experts,” said a local bank official that has used Pool Guard of Tampa on several occasions. “We are happy to work with Pool Guard as they have been very responsive, responsible and there products are high quality,” he stated when asked why he selected Pool Guard. Banks, Investors, Brokers and Agents alike can trust www.atampapoolfence.com aka Pool Guard of Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater fl to secure any Pool fast and affordably. We are experienced, licensed; insured and our products exceed the strict Florida Barrier Code requirements. A Tampa Pool Fence - Pool Guard of Tampa Bay, Florida provides Swimming pool fencing and Pool fence gate installation services for the following FL cities and communities:
 Super Service Award Award reflects company’s consistently high level of customer service A Tampa Pool Fence aka Pool Guard of Tampa Bay has been awarded the prestigious 2009 Angie’s List Super Service Award! The Super Service Award, now celebrating its 11th year, is reserved for companies who have achieved and maintained a superior service rating on Angie's List – the nation’s leading provider of consumer ratings on local service companies – throughout the past year. Fewer than 5 percent of the companies on Angie's List meet the eligibility requirements to be considered for the award. “Our Super Service Award winners are the cream of the crop when it comes to providing the best customer service,” said Angie Hicks, founder of Angie’s List. It is nice to be awarded the Super Service Award from Angie's List for the third year in a row. Pool Guard of Tampa is committed to pool safety and excellent customer service. In this economy it's easy to cut corners or reduce quality to make ends meet but we decided Pool Safety is too important to not do at 100%. We look forward to serving Tampa Bay for many more years to come. Angie’s List Super Service Award winners have maintained a total and overall grade of "A;" have received a minimum number of reports; are NOT in the Angie's List "Penalty Box” and do NOT have an unsatisfactory rating with the Better Business Bureau. Service company ratings are updated daily on Angie’s List, but members can find the 2009 Super Service Award logo next to company names in search results on AngiesList.com. This is a reprint from Whoa Momma How can anyone live without a pool fence? As this story outlines all too well, a curious toddler and a swimming pool are a deadly mix. I have a pet peeve when I see in these stories the advice to keep your eyes on your kids at all times. Well, duh. But at some point you have to sleep or you might have another child who falls and bumps his head or any number of reasons really good parents let the unthinkable happen. What I really wish authorities said in these cases is you have to have a backup system like a safety fence. I really can't understand living in a house with toddlers and having no safety fence around the pool. I know they are expensive -- from $10 to $18 a foot -- so you are looking at $500 to $1,000.There a number of alarms or systems you can look into as well, but I don't think I could have ever slept a wink in my house without our fence around the edge of the pool that you had to be at least 5 feet tall to open (and a strict rule in our house that it was locked at all times). Do you really think a person can watch a child like a hawk all the time? That they'll never be distracted or sleeping or going to the bathroom and a child will wander out back? One of my favorite books, "Freakonomics," makes the compelling point that children face a far greater risk of death from pools in the house than they do from having a gun in the house. So an unfenced pool is like having a loaded gun just sitting around unlocked. I guess I just know myself too well and didn't want my scattered brain to be our only safety net. -- Sharon Kennedy Wynne www.atampapoolfence.com and www.poolsafetyfences.com support the St. Joseph's Children's Hospital Safe Kids program. This program is designed to provide useful information and resources to help keep kids safe. Pool Guard safety fencing is listed as a water safety resource. Pool Guard fences are astm certified and meets or exceeds all requirements set forth in the Residential Pool Safety Act of 2000. Pool Fences by Pool Guard of Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater can be reached at (813) 929-8729 For more information on the Safe Kids program call (813) 615-0589 |  Kevin PostOwner of Pool Guard Pool Safety Fences in Tampa FL ArchivesAugust 2010 CategoriesAll |
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