FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
POOL BOSS
For more information
on the Poolboss call 800-458-0474.
I was tired of constantly checking the pool water levels, dragging a
hose to the pool, hanging it over the deck then worrying about
turning it off before overfilling. Being a retired Lockheed-Martin
engineer, I calculated that my 18 x 36 foot swimming pool was
loosing 200 gallons for every ½ inch of water depth - all evaporated
every week into the atmosphere by California sunshine. I tried
every pool water leveler on market but they were bulky, heavy and
difficult to move without first turning off the hose and draining
the water out of their housings. Furthermore, they were unsightly
and interfered with my pool sweep. I decided to design something
for my self. It had to be inexpensive yet pleasing to the eye.
The first prototype
was made from a piece of plastic pipe, a manual garden hose shut-off
valve converted into an automatic toggle valve and a float rod
(toggle arm) attached to life-size decoy duck float. From the
outset, the design worked like a charm it kept the water level in
the pool steady as rock, month after month. My young godson gave
the new duck its name – The Poolboss. Now, being an engineer, I had
to measure the accuracy of the Poolboss. Knowing that there are 200
gallons of water in a ½ inch of water depth, I carefully removed one
gallon at a time from my pool. When I got to four gallons, Poolboss
turned itself on. Then multiplying the ratio (4 gallons/200
gallons) times ½ inch yielded an accuracy of 1/100th of
an inch.
It wasn’t long before
my neighbors were begging me for a Poolboss. And a week later my
godson set up a website poolboss.com. Two days later, an aggressive
marketing company visited the site and the rest is history.
The Poolboss water
leveler hooks up to a standard garden hose. When the water is
turned on, water pressure pushes on the toggle valve and instantly
shuts the water off which solves the removing-from-pool problem.
Then, after the float rod (attached to the duck) is inserted into
the toggle valve, the rod operates the valve. Now, whenever the
floating duck sees a mere 1/100th of an inch of water
disappearing from the pool, the valve turns on. This solves the
evaporation problem. A vertical shaft threaded into the bottom of a
keel on the duck attaches the duck to the float rod. Simply rotate
the duck clockwise while the duck floats in the pool to raise the
pool water level to any desired height.
Poolboss is now
available for a very reasonable price of $78.00.
I now sit in the warm
California sun by the pool (without worrying about water levels and
overfills.) Occasionally, I will look at the beautiful eye-pleasing
duck floating in my pool worrying that he might have flown south.
But he’s still the boss of the pool even after replenishing 41,600
gallons of evaporated water over a period of four years!
For more information
on the Poolboss call 800-458-0474.
