The Association of Pool & Spa Professionals

pool, it might need a new plaster finish; if it’s a vinyl liner pool, you need a new vinyl liner. But what we’re also seeing is that with auto- mation and the different things you can do with computers to design pools, for not a lot of money, a homeowner can renovate their pools for way less than half the cost of putting in a new one. So, sometimes in the old days, people might have said, ‘Just dig my pool up and fill it in; I don’t really want to go through with the expense.’ Now, they’re seeing that they can renovate it for not a whole lot of money, make it look brand new, and get another 10-15 years out of it. So, renovation has become very large in the industry. It also helped a lot of compa- nies during the recession, when not a lot of new pool building was going on.” This past January, the Association of Pool & Spa Professionals and the National Swimming Pool THE ASSOCIATION OF POOL & SPA PROFESSIONALS