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FICO

LyFi Pool School 102: Understanding FICO

Posted on August 27, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
Pool Financing

When you’re ready to finance a swimming pool or apply for a mortgage, it’s an exciting time. Whether it is your first pool or your fifth house, you are embarking on a process with a distinct beginning, middle and end. While our pool financing account managers take you step by step, it’s always beneficial to [...]

How the Pool Loan Process Works

LyFi Pool School 101: How the Pool Loan Process Works

Posted on August 19, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
Pool Financing

Because Lyon Financial is as committed to consumer awareness as we are to customer service, we have launched LyFi Pool School to make even more information accessible to anyone who wants to know everything possible about pool financing. In this first in our series of LyFi Pool School installments, we’d like to provide an overview [...]

Pool Financing School

Welcome to The LyFi Pool School!

Posted on August 13, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
Pool Financing

We’re proud to say that we’ve been in the pool financing business since 1979. Over all these years we have seen the most extraordinary advances – in pool innovations and in the technology that helps us provide excellent customer experiences. The one thing that has not changed since that first day is our commitment to [...]

Algae

How to Get Rid of Your Pool’s Algae

Posted on August 7, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools

Everyone loves a backyard pool! They set the tone for the best-ever barbeques and add ambiance to every occasion. Pools also bring families together. They serve as personal gyms and relaxation stations. They’re the destination for your next staycation! The one thing people complain about is the time they need to dedicate to the upkeep. [...]

How to Balance the Calcium Hardness Level in Your Pool

How to Balance the Calcium Hardness Level in Your Pool

Posted on July 28, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Swimming Pool Maintenance

Remember those required reading lists you used to get over summer vacation? You’ll recall that if you read the books over the course of the summer, they were way easier to get through. However, if you put reading them off, you likely spent those last precious days trying to pack all those pages in before [...]

financing

Five Questions to Ask When Financing a Swimming Pool

Posted on July 21, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
Pool Financing

You’ve made the decision: you’re getting a swimming pool. Maybe you have just started the process and you have your favorite pool designs saved to your Pinterest board; maybe you have met with several designers and are narrowing down your pool company of choice. As you nail down the myriad of decisions to be made [...]

spool

What’s a Spool Pool and Why You’ll Want One!

Posted on July 13, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools

As we are fond of saying, we are constantly inspired by the evolution of pool design. While the legendary baths built in Greece and Rome were ornate offerings, for years the typical American pool was just a rectangular hole filled with water – perhaps boasting a diving board. But global influence and new technologies have [...]

The Salt Life – Should Your Pool Be Chlorine-Free?

Posted on July 6, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Backyard Ideas, Swimming Pool Construction

What was once called the “world wide web” is now a search engine on a smart phone. This is how we shop and how we get answers to just about anything. Alexa and Siri are always on standby. Or we can type into a little, white box to get millions of results in under a [...]

Sunscreen Safety

The Right Rules of Sunscreen

Posted on June 26, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
Backyard Ideas

Because an estimated one in five Americans will develop skin cancer in their lifetime, sunscreen is a critical component of skin and health care. Besides helping to deflect those brown spots and dreaded wrinkles, its use will allow you to protect yourself from the sun’s harmful UV rays… the ones that promote those dangerous skin [...]

The Shape of Water: What Pool Design is Right for You?

Posted on June 15, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Backyard Ideas, Swimming Pool Construction

In the world of fashion, silhouettes create impact. Whether demure or bold, the designer makes a statement. While hemlines and textiles go in and out of style, the latest trends are often a reinvention of a look that was the rage a decade or two ago. When it comes to your pool design, there’s a little [...]

What’s So Great About a Pool? Our Top Ten Reasons!

Posted on June 11, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools

If you’ve considered home improvement, there are all kinds of options. One of your best returns on investment sits beyond your home’s windows in the alfresco setting of your own backyard. Outdoor entertaining is all the rage with kitchens and firepits and collections of furniture that rival interior design. A natural extension of your home’s [...]

Pool House

All About Pool Houses, Pavilions, and Cabanas

Posted on June 6, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools

It is abundantly true that the more time you spend in your backyard oasis, the more time you want to spend in your backyard oasis! And the more time you spend, the more ideas you come up with for elevating the experience. Fortunately, those wonderful extras external to your pool are no longer only available [...]

Decking

Picking Decking: How To Deal the Perfect Backyard Deck

Posted on May 7, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools

Your swimming pool may be the main attraction of your alfresco entertainment center, but it’s the decking that provides the personality. Even the most generic looking pool shapes become standouts when dressed exquisitely. Fortunately, decking material choices are plentiful, whether your pool installation is a new one or you are looking to give your existing [...]

salt water

Salt Water Pool Care Tips

Posted on April 28, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Swimming Pool Maintenance

With any home improvement, you’ve got options galore. Have you ever spent weeks looking at patches of paint colors on a wall in your living room? Trying to see how each one looks in all kinds of light? When you finally decide on Benjamin Moore’s Beacon Hill Damask, then you have to follow that effort [...]

Pool Safety for Dogs: The Top Seven Things You Should Know

Posted on April 14, 2024 by Britt Godfrey
All About Pools, Backyard Ideas

Dogs. Everyone’s best friend. Their love is unconditional, they never criticize your decisions. Your dog is always happy to see you. That furry friend who is most loyal. In turn, dogs who are loved have a rather good life. With their own retail shops, and parks, and even custom accommodations for daycare, they are rewarded [...]

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