Imagine Pools – Fiberglass Pool Models

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Illiana Backyard Fun is proud to supply our clients with the very best in Fiberglass Swimming Pool selections! By purchasing a fiberglass pool from Illiana Backyard Fun, you gain access to Imagine Pools (our manufacturer).

Through Imagine, we have access to the highest quality fiberglass pools in the United States! From simple flat bottom rectangles up to free form pools with deep ends – we have a wide variety of the choices to fit your family and outdoor lifestyle!

We’ve Expanded Our Line of Fiberglass Pools

Since our first article, where we announced our access to Imagine Pools, we’ve expanded the number of pools that we carry. Imagine Pools has released 1 new design (below) which brings the running total up to:

  • 9 Fiberglass Pools
  • 2 Fiberglass Spas
  • 2 Fiberglass Splash Pads

But, before you begin shopping our amazing selection, it’s important to ask yourself one question. “What do you envision doing in your backyard living space?” By asking yourself this question, we can determine the shape, style and design to match your outdoor lifestyle.

If you are a proud parent with young children and foresee years of birthday parties and summer entertainment – a larger model may be the best choice. On the other hand, if you determine you need a small swimming pool – we have some great options as well! Just let us know what your needs are and we can match our pools to fit your usage.

The Celebration – An 8′ Deep Diving Pool!

Imagine Pools has designed a brilliant 8′ deep end swimming pool titled The Celebration (shown above & below). This pool features an overall length of 40′ and  is deep enough for diving. You’re family with love the size of this brilliant new model and are sure to spend many wonderful hours outdoors together! We recommend this pool to any family with active children who are advanced swimmers.

The Celebration is certified to fit any Type 1 Diving Board and must follow ANSI regulations. If you have questions about what this means, just contact us. We are here to give you expert advice and help you with your pool buying experience!

 

Quick Recap – The Benefits of a Fiberglass Pool

Fiberglass Swimming Pools are excellent choices for your home for several very distinct reasons:

  • Very fast installation process (typically takes only 1-2 weeks from start to finish)
  • Simple shopping experience
  • Supported by a Lifetime Structural Warranty
  • Available in 7 colors
  • 100% American Made

From our blazing fast installation process to strong selection of pools to choose from – we are geared to provide you what you want for your home and fast! Once you place an order for a fiberglass pool from Illiana Backyard Fun, we can schedule, ship, deliver & install your pool in as little as 4 weeks!

In addition to our rapid installation times, our pools are supported by a Lifetime Warranty! This is unheard of in our industry and is only possible due to the high quality materials and construction techniques that go into their design and manufacture. From our premier Fiberglass & Vinyl Esther Resin composition to our 100% American Made philosophy, Imagine Pools is our premier manufacturer that is taking the swimming pool industry by storm!

9 Pool Options, 2 Spas & 2 Tanning Ledges

If you’re looking for options, you’ve found them! Illiana Backyard Fun has a total of 13 beautiful fiberglass designs to choose from. For a quick overview, we’ve included a product slider below which showcases our gorgeous design options!

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For a complete lineup of their designs, we suggest visiting the Imagine Pools website! There you can browse their complete lineup of designs and product information. At Illiana Backyard Fun, you have access to all of the Imagine Pools inventory by shopping with Kristie! That means anything you see and can imagine for your home – we can bring to life! It’s all about developing our outdoor living space for you and your family to grow into.

Lifetime Structural Warranty

As we mentioned above, all of our fiberglass pools ship with a Lifetime Warranty! This warranty is an important part of our product that protects you and your investment. Based solely on the ways that our fiberglass pools are manufactured, Imagine Pools is able to guarantee their longevity because they stand behind their product.

Developed by a team of experienced professionals, Imagine Pools produces some of the finest swimming pools available on the market today! Comprised of fiberglass & Vinyl Esther Resin, our fiberglass pools are designed to withstand any Osmosis effects.

Osmosis is a problem that used to plague fiberglass pools and cause “bubbling.” Since then, new materials have been developed to prevent this problem. It’s the reason why Imagine Pools is able to offer such an amazing Lifetime Warranty policy.

Much Faster Installation Than Any Other Pool

So, how is it that we can install these fiberglass pools in such a short time frame? To put it simply, these pools are manufactured offsite which saves us time constructing the product in the field.

Our primary objective is excavating our hole. Before the pool arrives, we shape the length, width and depth of the hole to match the swimming pool. Therefore, once our delivery arrives at your home all we need to do is offload the swimming pool and set it in our hole. Of course, there is always some slight adjustments to make but our prep-work makes that minimal.

Lastly, once the pool is set in the ground, we run our plumbing and electrical lines. Then we add in the back-fill material and fill with water. After those steps are completed, you now have a beautiful fiberglass pool for your home and family!

Get a Free Estimate Today

If we’ve given you plenty of information to chew on and have some questions to ask – no problem! We are here to answer any and all of your questions. Our goal is to help you select the right type of fiberglass pool for your family and outdoor lifestyle. Therefore, we suggest letting us set up a free in-home appointment. This allows us to provide you with any and all pertinent information to know before buying your next outdoor stay-cation piece!

Fiberglass Pool Installation – Pouring a Concrete Deck

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A Technical Guide to a Beautiful Deck

We have made some impressive headway and completed the fiberglass pool installation (if you've been following our blog). The final stages of this project were pouring our concrete pool deck, cleanup & pool startup. Now this home owner has a beautiful fiberglass swimming pool to enjoy for many warm days outside!

We have made some impressive headway and completed the fiberglass pool installation (if you’ve been following our blog). The final stages of this project were pouring our concrete pool deck, cleanup & pool startup. Now this home owner has a beautiful fiberglass swimming pool to enjoy for many warm days outside!

Sub-Contracting The Tough Work

You heard us right, we like doing a lot of the grunt work ourselves. It keeps us sharp and teaches us new construction techniques from hands on experience. However, there are just some jobs that require the attention of professionals who are artisans of their trade. For our concrete deck, we sub-contracted the deck installation to Silver Bros., Inc – from Hoopeston IL.

This talented team of concrete professionals was amazing to work with and we are very happy with their finished product. As you can see from the image above, we installed a concrete deck all the way around the edge of the pool. If you’re familiar with our industry or just simply curious, we had a couple of technical aspects of this job that is worth pointing out:

  • This is a Cantilever Deck (a.k.a. a poured concrete deck that requires the use of Styrofoam Stegemeier forms during the installation)
  • We also had to properly set the Polybox where our Automated Pool Cover will sit. This is tricky work because wet cement is heavy; we needed to ensure the wet concrete did not disturb our Polybox.
  • This deck had multiple elevations
Prior to pouring our concrete deck, we had to complete the "prep work." This involves "forming" our fiberglass pool with the white styrofoam Stegmeier forms (shown above). We also had to set framework (wood border) and lay our network of rebar in a 12"x12" grid.

Prior to pouring our concrete deck, we had to complete the “prep work.” This involves “forming” our fiberglass pool with the white styrofoam Stegmeier forms (shown above). We also had to set framework (wood border) and lay our network of rebar in a 12″ x 12″ grid.

The Prep Work: Prior To Pouring The Deck

As you can see from the image above, pouring a concrete deck is not as simple as just pulling up in a mix truck and dumping the contents. It’s much more involved and always comes down to one very simple step: Prep Work. As with any construction process, the efficiency of our installation is always based upon how well we prepare our work space for the next stage of development.

In our case, we prepared our work space by installing the following items prior to pouring our new deck:

  • Installed our Stegmeier Forms with a plumb strip. These forms are used form the inside edge of our concrete deck around the edge of our swimming pool. The plumb strip also prevents wet concrete from seeping through and setting in our new swimming pool. 
  • Secondly, we Framed our deck by setting reinforced wood beams around the outside perimeter of our pool deck.
  • Thirdly, we reinforced our Polybox to ensure it would not move from the weight of the wet cement as it rests and sets.
  • Lastly, we placed 1/2″ rebar steel in a grid-like pattern (12″ x 12″ to be exact) across the entire surface area of our new pool deck. Rebar creates a latticework inside of our new finished deck and holds the product together and reduces shifting or cracking.
Concrete is tough work! These gentlemen had to carefully operate around the smoothed wet cement and are essentially working backyards. You always want to ensure you do not walk on the "smoothed" side of your wet cement. They took create care to touch up our concrete deck and left us with a great finished product!

Concrete is tough work! These gentlemen had to carefully operate around the smoothed wet cement and are essentially working backyards. You always want to ensure you do not walk on the “smoothed” side of your wet cement. They took create care to touch up our concrete deck and left us with a great finished product!

Professional Installation – Your Pool Partners

Pouring a concrete deck is fairly simple in concept but hard in execution. Wet Cement is a malleable product that can be smoothed out, trenched out or sucked out (with a shop vac vacuum). However, once it sets and dries it takes on a permanent shape.

You can certainly understand why we hired professionals to handle this part of our fiberglass pool installation. One small mistake and you will see it forever. We would rather collaborate with these professionals so that our customer is left with a beautiful finished product.

At Illiana Backyard Fun, we are passionate about ensuring our customers receive the very best in all of our products and services. We work diligently, both in the field and our retail store, to provide our customers with the very best information for their swimming pools and backyards. It’s part of our overall mission of becoming your new Pool Partners for 2018!

After our cement was poured, Silver Bros, Inc. created some accent lines equally spaced along the surface area of our deck. This adds a nice tough and gives our new deck a more custom feel.

After our cement was poured, Silver Bros, Inc. created some accent lines equally spaced along the surface area of our deck. This adds a nice tough and gives our new deck a more custom feel.

Next Step: The “Startup” Process

Now that this stage of our fiberglass pool installation is over, we are ready for our final procedure: cleanup and startup. There is a lot of information to cover for new pool startup, but it mainly comes down to water chemistry & equipment maintenance.

Often, new swimming pool installations are a dirty and involved process. Once any new swimming pool is installed in your backyard, you want to hire Illiana Backyard Fun to “start up” your new pool the right way. We follow a specific process to clean up that construction work space, balance your water chemistry and complete a thorough check and cleaning of your filtration equipment.

This ensures that your ready to enjoy your new swimming pool without the initial hassle of getting it inline with industry standards first. Our startup procedure only takes a day and we do the dirty work so you can enjoy getting a tan and your first pool-side cocktail!

Contact Illiana Backyard Fun

We are here for all of your swimming pool and backyard needs. Our talented team of swimming pool professionals is here to answer any questions that you have about how to care or spruce up your backyard and outdoor living space. We believe in the concept of creating an Outdoor Oasis for you and your family to enjoy. It’s all about extending your home outdoors and create a wonderful environment for play and to make some great summer memories.

That being said, we have a great line of Outdoor Grills, Pergolas, Chemicals, Hot Tubs and much more available at our retail store in Iroquois County. All of these items are sold to enhance your overall backyard living experience. Contact us any time for a free estimate on any of our products or services! We are here for you and would love to meet you!

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New – The Optimum Pool –

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State-of-the-Art Residential Pool

The Optimum pool is a pool that can be above the ground, semi in-ground, fully in-ground or built into a hillside!  It has 2″ thick composite pool wall with a R10 insulation value. It is 52″ tall and comes in round or oval sizes.

Optimum pools feature a highly durable composite pool wall that acts as a thermal barrier. The inner and outer walls are made from high-grade 5052 aluminum alloy.  This alloy is recommended for applications that require strength and resistance to corrosion.  The middle of the composite panel is constructed from 2″ thick EPS foam with an insulating value of R10.  This material does not absorb moisture and insulates the pool, helping to keep the water warmer longer, extending your pool season.  The panels are made with insect resistant Bug-Out EPS foam to prevent nesting of annoying pest.  A 5 year 100% guarantee and a fully transferable warranty is offered with this beautifully and simplistically designed pool.

The Optimum pools are designed to provide many years of backyard enjoyment and family fun.  Create the backyard oasis of your dreams with this versatile pool.  Be inspired by the endless possibilities this incredible pool offers.

Experience and Trusted.  The Optimum pool has long term benefits that you’re sure to appreciate.  Both its technical and aesthetic qualities are sure to keep you in the swim year after year. Stop in at Illiana Backyard Fun to see how easily you can have this in your backyard.