In my many meetings with pool customers that have moved to Virginia and Maryland from the Southern States I often get asked this question: Why are there not more fiberglass pools and fiberglass pool companies in Virginia/Maryland?
Well, I wish there were more fiberglass pools in the area, but up until recently, this oddity was absolutely accurate.
Fiberglass Pools first found their home in Virginia in the Virginia Beach area. Although there are many reasons for this, the most likely is that Va. Beach is close to Nags Head and other parts of North Carolina, an area where fiberglass pools have been entrenched for quite some time. Plus, with sandy soil conditions ideal for fiberglass, Virginia Beach was a natural start.
When my two business partners and I started our swimming pool company in 2001 in the Richmond Va. area, we thought we were going to do like most other pool companies in the state and build vinyl-liner pools, the most popular style of pool in Virginia and Maryland up to that point. But after we did our first couple of pools, we realized something that would reshape our company, and ultimately reshape the swimming pool industry in Virginia and Maryland. What we found is that people are looking for 3 main things when considering the purchase of an inground pool. #1: They want low maintenance. #2: They want the pool to last a long time without big repair issues down the road. #3 They want a pool that will look nice in their backyard, not something that looks cheap or modular.
Understanding this allowed us to realize that fiberglass swimming pools would be the wave of the future in not just Virginia and Maryland, but the world for that matter. It was at this point, roughly five years ago now, that we decide to committ ourselves 100% to the growth of the fiberglass pool industry through education and innovation.
Since that time, and now over 500 pools later, fiberglass pools have become the norm in such cities as Richmond, Fredericksburg, Waldorf Maryland, Northern Virginia, etc..With our continual efforts to educated the inground swimming pool consumer through our expansive website and other tools, we are now helping our customers to be, literally, some of the most informed swimming pool shoppers in the country. We hope the rest of the industry will share our desires as well in these important endeavors.
