Benefits of Owning a Pool

Know where your kids are.

Did you know that the average American family can spend close to $100 a week on each child to entertain them while home from school during the summer? The cost of sports and activity camps can really add up, and so can memberships at town recreation facilities, trips to waterparks, or expensive vacations to the beach. With a swimming pool in your backyard, however, your kids have endless entertainment right at home—and you don’t even have to drive them to it!

Work out, calm down, make peace.

In addition to serving as a summer haven for your kids, owning a swimming pool can benefit your health—swimming can burn more than 400 calories per hour! A quick dip after work can help you de-stress and relax. Even just sitting out by the pool on a quiet summer evening with a glass of iced tea and a good book can be a source of immense calm.

Entertain with style.

You’ll become the envy of the neighborhood when you entertain in your new backyard. Whether it’s a family-friendly pool party with Marco Polo and pool volleyball or an adult-only gathering with wine, grilling, and good conversation, a swimming pool provides the perfect atmosphere to enjoy summer sunshine and good company. Close a business deal after entertaining customers in your backyard. Host a bridal shower for your niece. Throw a birthday party for your daughter. Invite the neighborhood over for a fundraiser. Your pool becomes the go-to venue for all of your entertaining needs.

Automatic Pool Covers

Think about your garage door. You press a button – it opens. You press the button again – it closes. What if covering and uncovering your pool were that simple?

It can be, with the Leading Edge® Automatic Pool Cover substructure components from Fort Wayne Elite Pools.

Engineered to be an integral a part of your pool, the Leading Edge® coping system allows the cover to slide smoothly across the entire length of your pool, locking into place automatically at the far edge. When you’re ready to swim, it slides back just as easily – all at the touch of a button.

Talk to your Strong Support dealer about how Fort Wayne Elite Pools has got you covered… automatically.

The Elite Pool ~ Oval

These children are having a blast in this Oval design Elite Pool by Fort Wayne Pools!

One of the factors to consider before selecting your Elite Pool is will it be for recreation, exercise, entertaining, or some combination of all of these?

If you have a general idea of your intended use of the pool, it can help you work through the design process.

This Oval design is perfect for all of your needs! The concrete deck and brick coping along with the jump board create fantastic gathering place for your family and friends! Check out our wide variety of pool designs by clicking HERE!

EXTERIOR COORDINATES

The look of your pool is yours to create and coordinate!

Exterior Coordinates™ from Fort Wayne Pools is a line of steps, ladders, handrails and interior pool components designed to complement each other, as well as our coping and liners. Unlock your personal sense of style and design with white, gray or blue Exterior Coordinates.

Interior components such as main drain covers, return fittings, skimmer lids and skimmer face plates are available to mix and match in these colors and coordinate with some of our most popular vinyl liner patterns.

Ladders and handrails come in white and gray to match our standard coping colors and complement any liner and step combination.

Designed to match our popular Stone Tite™, Stonehenge™, Inverness™, and Versailles™ liner patterns, Exterior Coordinates give you the option of a completely unified pool interior.

Talk to your Strong Support dealer to see how Exterior Coordinates can unite the look of your pool, or click here to view more information about available options.

POOL SAFETY

Smart pool owners always think safety first. They take specific steps to ensure that their family, friends and guests are knowledgeable about the safe and sensible use of their pool. They also always ensure that:

• their pool is never used unless there is adequate supervision
• their pool is kept in good repair and is not used when there is a missing or broken drain cover or other component
• ALL CHILDREN using their pool are supervised constantly
• anyone under the influence of alcohol, drugs or stimulants that impair their judgment abilities does not use the pool
• their pool is protected by appropriate barriers to unsupervised entry including fencing with self-latching gates, safety covers, alarms, etc.

At Fort Wayne Elite Pools, we encourage you to talk with all members of your family about pool safety and we promote a “feet first” approach to entering your pool—much safer than diving.

Fort Wayne Elite Pools supplies each new pool owner with a number of very important items of safety literature and we strongly encourage you to read each item carefully and follow its instructions:

• Pool Owner’s Safety Handbook
• Association of Pool and Spa Professionals (APSP) “Sensible Way” book
• Vinyl swimming pool liner warranty information
• “Children Aren’t Waterproof” book
• “No Diving” labels
• Safety plaque and “Notice” card

SPILLOVER SPA



Scalloped Spillover Spa

 The soothing sounds of a waterfall create a tranquil effect as you relax in your spa, letting the massage jets work away your stress and aches. In just moments, you can go from relaxing in the spa to swimming in your pool. With a poolside spillover spa from Fort Wayne Elite Pools, you can add luxury to your backyard escape.

Our spillover spas come in round, square, or scalloped models and in a variety of colors designed to coordinate with vinyl liner patterns. Talk to your Strong Support dealer about how incorporating a spillover spa into your pool design can give you even more options for backyard relaxation, entertainment, and luxury.

STEPS

Fort Wayne Pools was the first company to make stairs for vinyl-liner pools, more than 30 years ago. Today we’ve enhanced and perfected our step design to give you a variety of options for a durable, stylish entry into your pool.

• Our Acrylic/Fiberglass stairs are rigid and strong, vacuum-formed from a single piece of acrylic and then hand laid with multiple layers of fiberglass for outstanding structural support. Many shapes and styles are available in this line, including contour, cantilever, in-wall ladder, leisure bench and corner.
• Our Thermoplastic stairs, are flexible and durable. Co-extruded and vacuum-formed from a single sheet of ABS supported Luran® material from BASF, our Performance Thermoplastic steps are 100% non-corrosive and will withstand all the elements. Ask your Strong Support builder about gray and blue marble options that coordinate nicely with select vinyl liner patterns and spillover spas. Among the many styles of Performance Thermoplastic steps available are sunledge, contour, Roman, Swim-n-Lounge and in-wall ladder.
• Our steel stairs offer unparalleled strength and durability. Crafted from 14-gauge copper bearing steel and coated with a heavy zinc galvanization, steel stairs allow you the ability to custom design an in-pool step in nearly any shape or configuration you can dream of, including contour, radius, benches, and more. The continuity of the vinyl liner over the steel step is an attractive feature, while also stable and strong. Discuss steel step options with your Strong Support dealer to design a pool entryway that’s perfect for your poolscape.

ABOUT FORT WAYNE POOLS

Fort Wayne Pools is a division of Latham International, the world’s largest manufacturer of inground packaged pool components. Fort Wayne Pools has been manufacturing swimming pool components in America’s heartland for more than 35 years.

Our industry recognized brands include the Sterling™ steel pool and the Elite™ polymer pool. We are a leading manufacturer of pool wall systems, braces, coping, steps, spillover spas, and vinyl liners.

Our products are sold and installed by pool builders who are members of our “Strong Support” network of dealers – some of the best pool builders in the nation – and are backed by an outstanding warranty program.

The Elite Pool ~ Single Roman

The Elite Pool ~ Single Roman

The most important part of your pool is the wall and the bracing system. The Elite wall system is simply the best and strongest in the industry.

Our structural polymer molding process allows us to produce a pool panel with thick rugged walls that are, in many ways, as strong as steel and impervious to corrosion. That means it will not rust or oxidize over time. In fact, we’re so confident of that strength, we offer a lifetime warranty on the pool wall structure.

To learn more about Fort Wayne Elite Pools, go to http://elite.surfthepool.com/

The Elite Pool ~ San Juan

The Elite Pool ~ San Juan

Add the magic of fiber optics to light up your Elite Pool's nighttime poolscape like in this San Juan design.
The maximum-strength, 42 strand perimeter fiber from Fiberstars Inc., fits into a special channel built into our Edgelight coping that bounces softly diffused light off the surface of your pool.

Available in a wide range of colors, both static and changing, these fiber optics are the most advanced pool perimeter lighting system available.

To learn more about fiber optic coping from Edgelight go to http://elite.surfthepool.com/

The Elite Pool ~ San Juan

The Elite Pool ~ San Juan

Add the magic of fiber optics to light up your nighttime poolscape like this breathtaking Elite Pool called San Juan. The maximum-strength, 42 strand perimeter fiber from Fiberstars Inc., fits into a special channel built into our Edgelight coping that bounces softly diffused light off the surface of your pool. Available in a wide range of colors, both static and changing, these fiber optics are the most advanced pool perimeter lighting system available.

To learn more about fiber optic coping from Edgelight, go to http://elite.surfthepool.com/

The Elite Pool ~ San Luis Rey

The Elite Pool ~ San Luis Rey

Fort Wayne Pools was the first to make stairs for vinyl-lined pools in 1972. They're extremely durable, easy to clean and maintain, and available in a wide variety of sizes and styles.

Our Acrylic/Fiberglass stairs are inherently rigid and strong. Acrylic and fiberglass stairs are vacuum-formed from a single piece of snow white acrylic, then hand laid with multiple layers of fiberglass for unsurpassed structural support. The strength is built into the stair itself. As you can see in this gorgeous San Luis Rey the stairs are a beautiful entrance into the pool.

To learn more about our acrylic and fiberglass steps from Fort Wayne Elite Pools, go to http://elite.surfthepool.com/

The Elite Pool ~ Figure Eight

The Elite Pool ~ Figure Eight

The look of your pool is yours to create and coordinate! This fabulous Figure Eight design is very coordinated with the choice of handrails, steps and other outdoor living space accessories. Your Elite Pool can be this gorgeous too! Read on...

Exterior Coordinates™ from Fort Wayne Pools is a line of steps, ladders, handrails and interior pool components designed to complement each other, as well as our coping and liners. Unlock your personal sense of style and design with white, gray or blue Exterior Coordinates.

Pool ladders and pool handrails come in white and gray to match our standard coping colors and complement any liner and step combination.To find out more about Exterior Coordinates go to http://elite.surfthepool.com/

The Elite Pool ~ Figure Eight



The Elite Pool ~ Figure Eight



Tru-Tile combines the beauty and luxury of ceramic tile with the ease and convenience of a vinyl liner, offering you the best of both worlds for your pool. Get the look of a tiled, gunite pool without the cost or maintenance issues!

The Tru-Tile system includes a 6” border of real ceramic tile along the waterline with a vinyl liner below. With limitless possibilities for tile selection, you really can make the pool your own. Perfect for new pools or retro-fit installations on older pools, Tru-Tile gives you the comfort and ease of vinyl and the classic beauty of real tile.

To learn more about Tru-Tile system, go to http://elite.surfthepool.com/