FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. As we prepare for hot summer temperatures, the price of relief plunging into that cool, blue swimming pool in your backyard continues to increase.
Costs to maintain swimming pools are rising sharply thanks to a prolonged chlorine tablet shortage that began after the nation's largest manufacturing facility was destroyed by fire in 2020. Costs are increasing for tablets and just about everything else related to your pool, including the workers who keep them clean, retailers say.