It’s Liner Replacement Season!

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It’s Liner Replacement Season

Now that Spring is coming to a close, the weather is heating up and kids are returning home from school - it's officially Liner Replacement Season! Season is now in full swing and we are hard at working installing new above ground vinyl liners to get these pools open for summer.

Now that Spring is coming to a close, the weather is heating up and kids are returning home from school – it’s officially Liner Replacement Season! Season is now in full swing and we are hard at working installing new above ground vinyl liners to get these pools open for summer.

We’re Hard At Work

Just like hunting season, Vinyl Liners are now in open season and it’s replacing time! This is a common practice in the swimming pool industry. Every Summer we receive calls from home owners who have vinyl liners that are worn out and in need of replacement or repair. The causes for the damage can be wide ranging, but we’ve listed a few common causes below:

  • Rips, tears or holes due to objects, animals, toe nails or grass
  • Seam separation
  • Old liner track fails or no longer hold the liner
  • Chemical Issues that lead to etched, brittle or cracked liners

Regardless of the cause or need for the liner replacement, we are here to support all of our customers! At Illiana Backyard Fun, we work diligently to get your swimming pool open as quickly as possible because we understand that you have family returning home and we want to help!

If you’re worried about the extensiveness of your liner damage and would like some replacement information, just give us a call! We have been replacing these liner systems for years and have teams and products in place to swap out your liner easily and painlessly.

You can see our beloved owner, Christie, hard at work installing a brand new 18' Round Above Ground Liner. Because these pools come in standard sizes, we use liner replacement kits (typically on-hand or from our local distributor) to replace your liner. Just select your pattern from our list of material selections and you're on your way to brand new pool for Summer!

You can see our beloved owner, Kristie, hard at work installing a brand new 18′ Round Above Ground Liner. Because these pools come in standard sizes, we use liner replacement kits (typically on-hand or from our local distributor) to replace your liner. Just select your pattern from our list of material selections and you’re on your way to brand new pool for Summer!

The Importance of Liner Care

As you may be able to tell from the list of issues we highlighted above, Vinyl Liners are a very important aspect of your swimming pool that requires the proper care. These liner systems operate as a membrane that separates water (what we swim in) from the outside elements around your pool.

Depending on if you have an above ground pool or in-ground vinyl pool, your style of liner will vary slightly in style and construction but the main purpose is the same. It retains water and must stay strong and soft for comfort and flexibility.

Vinyl is a unique substance that allows for slight amounts of stretching and abuse over time. It’s the reason why Above Ground and In-Ground Vinyl Swimming Pools are so popular. They are fairly easy to maintain and generally forgiving. So what are the best ways to keep up with your liner to ensure good health and a long lifespan?

  • Proper Chemical Balancing
  • Regular Brushing (with a soft nylon brush)
  • Removing foreign objects from swimming pool when not in use, i.e.:
    • Branches
    • Leaves
    • Toys
    • Ladders
    • *Essentially any object that can puncture or tear the liner due to sharp edges or rough texture
  • Removing weeds from around and below the swimming pool
  • Checking for signs of rusting or corrosion along pool walls, risers or liner tracks

Some Examples of Liner Damage

Steps For Proper Vinyl Liner Management

As a precautionary measure when you come across questions about liner care, we invite you to contact us! We love educating our home owners; it’s truly one of our passions and reason why we love this job! Kristie Cheatum originally started this company out of her desire to help the customers in her local Iroquois County.

That being said, we’ve got lots of tips and tricks to make liner care easier and simpler for our customers. From regular chemical maintenance to brushing and object removal, liner care can be an easy and fun part of pool ownership.

Proper Chemical Balancing – Liner Care 101

EZ Pool is our favorite chemical of choice because of it’s application method and how simple it makes pool chemistry for home owners. It uses a proprietary blend of chemicals to create a easy to understand one-a-week treatment method. Based on the size of your pool (we can help you identify dosage levels) you can add your designated number of scoops to maintain the following chemical levels:

  • Algae Prevention
  • Oxidizer (for shocking)
  • PH Balance
  • Water Softener
  • Scale Inhibitor
  • CH Balance (Calcium Hardness)
  • TA Balance (Total Alkalinity)
  • Water Clarity

When we say this chemical is EZ to use, we mean it! By adding your defined number of scoops to your pool each week, you can maintain the chemistry levels that we listed above. Of course, if you have some specific issues that need a little bit more horse power, we’ve got some additional specialty chemicals in our retail store. Just stop by and let us know what you’d like answers on and we’ll provide you with all the information you’d like to know!

Selecting The Right Style Bead

Lastly, we’ll give you one last tidbit of information about our vinyl liners. For those who have little to no knowledge of these materials, we use what is know as a J-Hook or Beaded Liner. It’s essentially the same thing and it uses a liner track to hand the liner along the edge of your pool wall.

The liner track does a great job of securing your liner and holding it in place while you swim and enjoy time outdoors. This is a much more efficient method of securing your vinyl liner versus the old method of the overlap liner.

The overlap liners are going out of style and it’s not just because of looks. You can always identify this style of liner due to the ugly blue sections of liner handing over the side of the pool. The main reason that we don’t like to install overlapping liners is because they can get pinched or are difficult to remove if you have a raised deck. In the event of a liner swap, if you’ve got an overlapping liner with a raised deck, it’s likely that you will have to remove sections of deck to get to the liner.

Old liners in need of repair typically have the same appearance. They are easy to diagnose and it's typically a matter of time until the liner tears that you'll need a replacement. If you have a similar looking above ground liner, we invite you to give us a call! It's better to replace the liner and enjoy your summer than to deal with an old liner all summer long.

Old liners in need of repair typically have the same appearance. They are easy to diagnose and it’s typically a matter of time until the liner tears that you’ll need a replacement. If you have a similar looking above ground liner, we invite you to give us a call! It’s better to replace the liner and enjoy your summer than to deal with an old liner all summer long.

Trust Illiana Backyard Fun

We don’t like complicated installs and your wallet doesn’t either. It’s reasons like this that we invite you to contact for advice or schedule us for an install. We know what works and what doesn’t and we’re here to provide you with the very best in customer service and products for your home! It’s what makes us unique and passionate about what we do for our customers!

We’re Here To Become Your 2018 Pool Partners!

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 Summer 2018 Pool Openings

At Illiana Backyard Fun, we believe that pool ownership should be a delight for every home owner. Your swimming pool is your escape from reality and the place where many great memories are made. Our mission is to help each home owner find that sense of happiness in their home by partnering with each customer.

At Illiana Backyard Fun, we believe that pool ownership should be a delight for every home owner. Your swimming pool is your escape from reality and the place where many great memories are made. Our mission is to help each home owner find that sense of happiness in their home by partnering with every customer to become their Pool Partner.

Preparing Your Backyard For Summer Time

Summer 2018 is right around the corner. As we speak, the schools of Iroquois County will be releasing their eager and energetic children for summer vacation on May 29 2018. Parents, that means we’ve got to get our swimming pools cleaned up in order to give these fun and crazy kids a place to release that summer energy.

The swimming pool has long been a haven of summer fun and the same can be said for your own home. We all love creating memories with our loved ones in our backyards. Grilling, sharing meals, playing games, swimming and connecting are all sacred elements of the American Dream. Our homes and backyards are the places where we all want to connect as a community during the summer.

Our Wide Range of Services

At Illiana Backyard Fun, our mission is to help you create these areas of fun. We like to think of it as creating your own Backyard Oasis! We specialize in swimming pools and a whole lot more! In fact, we’re continually adding new products to our service line; all for the purpose of expanding our backyard lifestyle. Our products and services now include:

  • A Retail Store located on 800 East Walnut Watseka, IL that sells the following items:
    • Above Ground, Semi In-Ground & Fully In-Ground Pools
    • Spas
    • Chemicals
    • Maintenance Kits & Equipment
    • Filtration Equipment
    • Pool & Spa Accessories
    • Primo Grills (Charcoal Grills)
    • Patio Furniture & Pergolas
    • Outside Yard Decor
    • Inside Wall Art
    • Flags
    • Household Decor
    • So much more…
  • A Service & New Construction Team that includes the following services & products:
Our company begin in 2004 as a dream to service a community and elevate the level of fun in our customers homes. Since our humble beginning, we have built our our retail, service & new construction side of our business. Our key to growth: developing trust with our customers and treating each one with the same level of high end service! We love what we do and it's apparent to see when you visit our beautiful retail store!

Our company began in 2004 as a dream to service a community and elevate the level of fun in our customers homes. Since our humble beginning, we have consistently seen increases in the size of the retail, service & new construction side of our business. Our key to growth: developing trust with our customers and treating each one with the same level of high-end service! We love what we do and it’s apparent to see when you visit our beautiful retail store!

The Ingredients for Success

As you can tell, we have a long laundry list of products and services that we offer. The reason for explaining and writing it all out is simple. We want to develop the trust of every customer in our service area.

We’ve been at this for a long time and every time that someone asks how we’ve grown and built such a wonderful company, our answer is always the same. We work diligently to value every customer interaction and always strive to provide outstanding customer service to each client.

There are a lot of transaction oriented pool companies out there, but that is not us. Not in the slightest. We place a huge emphasis on educating our customers how to take care of their swimming pools. From explaining the importance of proper pool chemistry down to the basics of hydro-dynamics; our mission is to help you understand how to care for your own pool.

Kristie Cheatum, our amazing owner, visits every job site and works with her crews in the field. She also manages our beautiful retail store. Needless to say, she is a busy woman. Rightfully so! She likes to work all avenues of the business so that she has personal experience with every task and keeps her team elevated to a superior service level. It's how we function so strongly as a team and the reason more people are choosing Illiana Backyard Fun for their homes!

Kristie Cheatum, our amazing owner, visits every job site and works with her crews in the field. She also manages our beautiful retail store. Needless to say, she is a busy woman. Rightfully so! She likes to work all avenues of the business so that she has personal experience with every task. This also keeps her team elevated to a superior service level. It’s how we function so strongly as a team and the reason more people are choosing Illiana Backyard Fun for their homes!

Selecting a Partner You Can Trust

That being said, we partner with you on all of the tough stuff in pool ownership. From fixing damaged equipment, installing new vinyl liner replacements, leveling your soil prior to an above ground installation, to so much more. Our list of services is nearly limitless just like our desire to serve our clients.

Over the years, we’ve developed some incredibly strong partnerships with our local suppliers and like-minded swimming pool companies. By working collaboratively with others in our industry, we’ve expanded our wealth of knowledge into other areas that we may have never experienced. Likewise, we partner with other newer companies to assist them with areas where we are considered the experts. It’s all part of our initiative to grow the swimming pool industry as a whole and elevate the service level for the residents Iroquois county!

Keeping us in mind for your Spring/Summer 2018 Pool Opening, we can provide you with all the information you need to make some very informed decisions regarding your swimming pool. Don’t just run down to your local Walmart and purchase a bucket of tablets and shock this Spring. Wouldn’t you like to understand how your pool chemistry really functions and the proper way to balance it? That’s what we’re here for! This season, we’d like to invite you to select us as your Pool Partners that you can trust!

Our team is seen here installing a new vinyl liner on an above ground pool. We work hard to ensure you have the right information from beginning to end. For example, did you know it's better to have a beaded liner instead of an overlap liner? This ensures that if you build a deck around your pool that you don't pinch the liner and it's easier to service & replace later on!

Our team is seen here installing a new vinyl liner on an above ground pool. We work hard to ensure you have the right information from beginning to end. For example, did you know it’s better to have a beaded liner instead of an overlap liner? This ensures that if you build a deck around your pool that you don’t pinch the liner and it’s easier to service & replace later on!

We Believe In Education

Keeping to our mission of free and accessible education, we are here to answer any questions you might have about how to care for your swimming pool or spa. Believe us, we know that these systems can be a little complicated with a large learning curve. But that’s why we’re here!

Our goal this swimming pool season is to develop even more wonderful customer relationships. We want to show Iroquois County that pool ownership can be a very and awesome privilege. Once you understand how to care for your swimming pool the right way, you can move away from stress and frustration into the fun zone. After all, isn’t our backyard supposed to be the fun part of our homes? For us, it surely is and we’d like to help you explore some new concepts of backyard living this summer!

Aside from swimming pool maintenance, if you’d like some free information on backyard renovations, swimming pool & spa installations, grills or even outdoor accessories – give us a call! We’d love to meet you and can’t wait to hear what you’ve got in store for your Summer 2018!