The upside to having a pool in your backyard is that you have a freakin’ pool in your own backyard! As in, steps away from where you live, available for use as often as you want, all summer long. The ...

An inground pool sitting in a backyard surrounded by a lawn and shrubs - Herreid/Getty Images A popped pool can occur when pressure from groundwater becomes greater than the weight of an empty pool.

There's a lot more to draining a pool than meets the eye. Not only are there concerns over proper water disposal, but emptying a pool also puts the structure itself at risk. That's because many pool ...

When we moved into our first house four years ago, we found that we had a terrible flooding problem in our backyard. My husband bought a small, electric, submersible pump that we could put in the area ...

Q: My neighbor was draining his pool because his contractor needed to make repairs. He wound up in a real ugly confrontation with Bakersfield Police Department. BPD was telling him that it was illegal ...