Get A Pool Alarm

Pool alarms are really important in terms of safety but in particular if you have small children who are not yet good swimmers. They can also be useful if you have pets. A pool alarm will sound when anything enters the pool and causes movement. For more complex alarms you need to set the level of movement so that the alarm doesn’t just go off when anything enters the pool. This can be quite annoying if say you have bad weather and you have twigs and the likes going into the water.

So, for those alarms it is important to calibrate them correctly so that the alarm does go off. If you have a simple alarm that does not have a calibration setting then at least that is better than the risk of a child falling in the pool accidentally.

There are a wide range of swimming pool alarms and you can pay anything from $20 to hundreds of dollars, depending on the complexity of the system.

If you are building a pool from scratch then it is useful to consider the pool alarm system before you have the pool built as you can incorporate a more sophisticated pool alarm in the plans of the swimming pool.

An easy to install pool alarm can just float on the top of the water. Even some of these alarms have calibrated settings for the size of a wave created by an object falling in the pool and also have low battery alarms so that you know the pool alarm battery needs replacing.