Swimming pool prices set to rocket!

The swimming pool industry is entering very difficult times across the board. With pool companies going bust left, right and centre at the moment the main pool product suppliers such as Certikin, SCP and Plastica and trying to manage the increasing amounts of bad debts they are being left with.

The current economic climate combined with the rising price of everything is having massive implication on the swimming pool industry.

This week 1st Direct Pools has learnt that price increases on swimming pool products are being handed out like sweets at the moment. One supplier has put their prices up 10% across the board, another by 5% at the end of this month followed by a further 10-15% in the new year and swimming pool chemicals rising by as much as 20% from January '09.

Added ontop of these increases the swimming pool industry in going to suffer on items such as stainless steel which is extremely high at the moment.

With the supplier price rises and impending credit crunch we are expecting the swimming pool industry to take a very different shape in 2009. Prices will be considerably higher for everyone so now is the time to buy if you were planning on any upgrades / replacements during the next year.

Here at 1st Direct Pools we will be doing everything that we can to absorb these increases and continue to offer the best prices around.