What are traditional pools?
For around 50 years, swimming pools have been built using the same traditional operating system.
We call this the ‘eyeball and skimmer’ system. Experts say that a healthy pool should have its entire water contents circulated at least once (preferably twice) over a 24 hour period – this helps to ensure chemicals are adequately mixed and that bacteria find it hard to thrive.
The problem with traditional pools
The problem with the traditional ‘eyeball and skimmer’ system is that it pushes water across the top of your pool into a skimmer. This skimmer then feeds that water through a filter and into a pump which pushes it back into your pool through eyeball return jets. Sure it circulates the volume of a standard pool in about 8 hours, but does it really circulate the whole pool, or just the top third over and over again? The Vantage operating system is a revolutionary new way to operate your pool. In-floor nozzles work to push water around your pool in a circular fashion which ensures that all water is constantly moving. Water at the top of the pool is circulated to the bottom and the benefits of this include: warmer water from the top being spread throughout the pool, and an even spread of bacteria-killing chemicals everywhere in the pool.
Arguably the best benefit of the Vantage system is that the pool cleans itself. All you have to do is empty your leaf baskets – no separate cleaning equipment required!
Traditional pool design uses old-fashioned methods of returning filtered water back to the pool through eyeball returns near the surface. This does not put the heated and chemically treated water on the bottom of the pool where it is needed. Heat and chemicals near the surface are quickly dissipated by the wind and by sun ‘burn-off’. Tests show that conventionally heated pools consume up to 50% more chemicals and 40% more energy than heated pools with in-floor systems.