Are you tired of burning, overcooking and drying out your BBQ'd meat?

Try cooking on a Traeger PELLET FED Grill.

"Once you taste the food cooked on a Traeger Grill you'll never cook on anything else." -Terry Bradshaw

Traeger Grills give you the convenience of a gas grill but the FLAVOR of a charcoal grill. They use 100% natural sawdust making the grill healthy for the environment and healthy to cook on. It uses a indirect cooking system which doesn't allow your meat to burn, overcook, or loose its flavor or juices. It is the most versatile product out on the market cooking from pizza to prime rib! Chicken, turkey, hamburgers, tri-tip, salmon, pork, are just a few of the possibilities. Every piece of meat is filled with flavor and juice's for you to enjoy.

If you have never taste the food cooked on a Traeger don't wait any longer!! Come by Johnson Pool and Spa on TUESDAYS from 12:30 to 1:30 to try the delicious food cooked on a Traeger Pellet Fed Grill.

Download your free LUNCH VOUCHER and visit our showroom THIS TUESDAY 12:30 to 1:30!!

Visit http://www.johnsonpoolandspa.com/ for more information

Myth Buster - Does chlorine turn your hair green?

No, the reason your blonde hair turns green is not the chlorine in the pool but the copper. Copper minerals at concentrations of 1 to 2 ppm (parts per million) can turn hair green. This can come from your hose water when you fill up a pool, especially those who have well water (so get it checked), it can also come from certain Algaecides containing copper, and it can come from your plumbing or heat exchanger on your heater. (pool heat exchangers are made of copper)

Unbalanced water, althougth may look clear, can lead to copper staining through erosion of your pool heat exchanger or through the copper falling out of solution due to high PH and Alkaline enviorments.

Get your water tested at Johnson Pool and Spa to insure you dont end up with green hair or a green pool!

POOL SIDE PONG

We carry a complete line of pool and spa toys for all ages including the smash college hit, POOL SIDE PONG floating beer pong table.

Contact us for shipping and handleing.

sales@johnsonpoolandspa.com

Did you know? We carry patio furniture

New Pool Owner Testimonial

Hi Randy and Matt,

Well I just got back from a trip to Ohio and wow, I'm impressed at the progess on the pool!!! It's looking really really good. With the last pool we did, it took about 5 to 6 months to get to this stage. Something your company has done in three!


In fact, I want to call out a couple of items that I was very pleased to see done. Once, I noticed that when digging for the equipment pad, one of the downspout drainage lines was ripped up. I thought to myself, 'Ok remember to connect that back up later'. Then when I got home from my trip, I saw that your guys had already done this for me! I can't tell you how many drainage pipes the other pool company broke at my old house, and instead of fixing them or even calling my attention to them, they just buried them up for me to find the following year when it started raining!!!


Second, your guys also installed a hose bib near the equipment pad which I think is very handy. I'm not sure if this is standard protocol, but it is nice and appreciated.


And lastly, installing a back flow preventer on the fill line was nice to see. That's good practice and one that the other company did not do. I had to come back later and install.


So anyways, so far, I am very happy with your work, A real class act operation.


Thanks!!!


Progress Photos of Pool....

Caldera Spa Owner Testimonial

Matt/Aaron - Hey, never got back to you, been busy... Bottomline: Spa is awesome. Jose is awesome. You guys are awesome. So far, GREAT! Believe me, if there were problems, you'd hear from us. Great Job! Talk Soon
-Caldera Spa Owner

Pool & Spa Maintenance Tips

Pools - Maintenance Tips
Weekly - Perform T.E.A.M

Test the water. Test for your sanitizer (Chlorine, Salt, Baquacil) Test your Total Alkalinity, PH, Calcium Hardness and Cyanuric Acid levels.

Equipment check. Insure all your filters, pumps, and heater are working on a weekly basis.
Add your balancing and sanitizing chemicals to reach their desired ranges.

Maintenance upkeep. Be sure to keep your pool clean of all debris on the surface and floor. Brush your walls and clean your waterline.

Spa - Maintenance Tips
Weekly - Perform T.E.A.M

Test the water. Test for your sanitizer (Chlorine, Bromine, BaquSpa) Test your Total Alkalinity, PH, and Calcium Hardness levels.

Equipment check. Ensure your water is receiving sufficient amount of filtration on daily basis. Remove your filter(s) and spray them down with a high-pressure water stream. Lack of filtration or a dirty filter is the #1 cause of cloudy water in a spa.

Add your balancing and sanitizing chemicals to reach their desired ranges.

Maintenance upkeep. Be sure to keep your spa clean of all debris on the surface and floor. Keep your waterline clean. Your spa cover can be easily forgotten but having a clean cover inside and on top is critical in maintaining a pristine spa condition.

Quarterly Reminders:
Drain, Clean Surface, and Re-fill Spa
Chemically Clean Filter
Clean & Protect Spa Cover

Hot Tub Therapy & Arthritis
Hydrotherapy is aquatic therapy with three basic factors: heat, buoyancy and massage. Immersion in hot water raises your body temperature, which results in increased blood circulation. Buoyancy in the water reduces pressure on the joints and muscles, and creates a sense of relaxation. The massaging spa action of combined water and air jets provides stress relief by relaxing tight muscles and stimulates the release of endorphins, the body's natural painkillers.
According to the Arthritis Foundation, a hot tub's heat and buoyancy create a helpful environment for relieving arthritis pain and stiffness. Water supports the body's weight, which lessens stress on joints and muscles, thus encouraging free movement. Talk with your doctor to determine whether a hot tub is right for you.

California Eneregy Commission (CEC) for Hot Tubs Sold in California

Hot Tub Energy Efficiency Saves You Money

Your Caldera® spa is always warm and ready to use, while operating costs are surprisingly affordable. Caldera hot tubs are among the first to meet the stringent Title 20 energy standards established by the California Energy Commission (CEC). Making all Caldera hot tubs even more energy efficient is good for you and for the environment.
The components are engineered to work together, providing the soothing benefits you want from a hot tub while minimizing power consumption.
Many other spas rely on the energy inefficient low speed of a large jet pump for water filtration, heating and/or ozone injection. But the highly efficient EnergyPro® circulation pump operates continually, drawing less than 40 watts. This saves you money in many ways:
It enables the EnergyPro hot tub heater to maintain a constant water temperature. For those who use their spa regularly, this is far more cost-efficient than allowing the water to cool down between uses.
It reduces heater usage, because more than 80% of the energy used by the pump is transferred into the water as “heat.”
On spas equipped with ozone systems, it allows for continuous injection of ozone into the water. Round-the-clock circulation helps the ozone generator provide ongoing protection for hot tub users.

Heat RetentionThe key to low operating costs is effective heat retention. With a Caldera spa, polyurethane foam completely fills the space between the shell, the ground and the cabinet, making it among the best insulated spas you can own.

Insulating CoverEach Caldera spa comes with a custom–fit hot tub cover to form an effective insulation barrier, keepin

Fun Grilling Fact

Traeger Grills are the best steak cookers in the world. Just so there is no confusion; Meat sears at 300 degrees Fahrenheit. Charred meat is burnt meat. Pure and simple. Charred meat is unhealthy and contains known carcinogens. For this reason you want to “sear” not “char” your meat. A Traeger grill can obtain a high temperature of 400+ degrees Fahrenheit. This is more than adequate to sear and cook a steak or chop perfectly. If all that a person is after is “char”, they can save themselves a lot of money by purchasing a propane torch to char their meat. With a Traeger Pellet Grill you not only get a great steak cooker but you also get a smoker, a grill, and a barbecue. It's also a wood-fired oven. In short, our products are the most versatile cooking devices known to mankind.

Visit Johnsonpoolandspa - Traeger Grills for more info.

Download our Traeger Tuesdays Lunch Vouhcer and try the delicious food cooked on a Pellet Fed gril EVERY TUESDAY at 9650 Old Redwood Hwy. Windsor CA 707-837-0866

Johnson Pool and Spa has gone GREEN!

If being green in the pool and spa industry sounds strange, than call us crazy. We at Johnson Pool and Spa are doing our part to help the environment by applying GREEN philosophies to all aspects of our business. From recycling all paper and plastics to plumbing pools that are hydraulically sound we are making a difference for future generations. The following are examples of the products and services we provide that are friendly to the environment and can have significant cost savings to you the consumer.

I’ll begin with the construction division of our business. All of the pools and spas we build are plumbed to peak efficiency by our in house team. With proper pipe sizing we can minimize the horse power needed to move the water through the filtration system. This saves electricity and lowers your energy bill. We install automatic covers on many of the pools we build. Automatic covers save up to 70% on operating costs by dramatically reducing heat loss, water evaporation, chemical use and cleaning. Pebble finishes to the interior of the pool will keep it 3-8 degrees warmer than a traditional plaster finish. This saves on heating cost by naturally keeping the pool warmer. Using cartridge filters on all of our pools eliminates backwashing which conserves water. We offer LED lighting which uses less than 50 watts per light compared to the 250 watt halogen light. Solar heating is one of the most environmentally friendly options for a pool. Operating in conjunction with the filtration system and capturing the heat from the sun, solar heating has no environmental impact.

Our service and repair department is equally committed to helping the environment. We recycle all of our cardboard, plastic buckets and metals. We install many of the same energy efficient equipment that we use on our new pools. We use GPS tracking on all of our service trucks to maximize route efficiency, saving gas and overall wear and tear on our vehicles. We adjust the filtering time of our clients’ pools depending on the season to keep run times to a minimum, thus saving electricity for our service customers.

In our retail store we offer many of the most energy efficient products on the market. Caldera Spas has re-engineered their spa lines to comply with the California Energy Commission’s Title 20 rigorous standards. This regulation states that portable spas must operate below a specific level of energy consumption in order to be eligible for sale in the State of California. Watkins, the manufacturer of Caldera Spas is the only company that can make this claim. All Caldera Spas are fully foam insulated to retain heat and minimize the amount of energy needed to keep the spa hot. Many of the spas come equipped with a 24 hr. circulation pump. You may think that uses more energy, but by circulating the water continuously the pump horsepower can be dramatically reduced. Due to what’s called the “cubed factor” of electricity this reduction uses far less energy than filtering less time with larger horsepower. Traeger Handcrafted Wood Pellet Grills are the cleanest burning of any grill on the market today. Traeger Wood Pellet Grills use a natural biomass wood pellet fuel made from 100% recycled hardwood sawdust. The hardwood smoke created by the wood pellets produces antioxidants similar to vitamin E. The grill utilizes an in-direct cooking system that reduces the fat and charring, decreasing cancer causing benzo-a-pyrene on food. The burn system in every Traeger Grill is capable of a combustion efficiency rate of 98.8% with an extremely high fuel to air ratio. This means low emissions and a lower carbon footprint. Most importantly the food cooked on a Traeger is delicious. Many of the other products we sell in our retail are environmentally friendly, from clarifiers like Sea-Klear made of natural Chitin a derivative of crabs to natural enzyme products that remove waterline build up to solar covers that are a biodegradable liquid. At our main offices we go paperless with faxing and invoicing and have most electronic devices on timers.

Helping the environment is a major concern of all of us at Johnson Pool and Spa. If we and other businesses make the effort to change behavior and sell environmentally safe products, we can make a difference.

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Top 4 Reasons to own a hot tub

1. Warm water is the ultimate sleeping pill.
Soaking in warm water will artificially raise your body’s temperature and then bring it back down after the soak. Studies show in doing so will exhaust your body and you will experience unbelievable sleep.

2. It will make you money.
Yes, believe it or not a hot tub can make you money. It’s proven when you are able to experience a better nights sleep you will perform better at work the following day, making yourself more productive then ever before.

3. The ultimate home improvement.
A hot tub is a $50,000 home improvement that you won’t pay $50,000. The hot tub is the only place where you and your children are confined by four walls and you and your family can talk about the day. Where else can you get your kids attention like this? It brings a whole new togetherness to you and your family.

4. You are 90% free from gravity.
When you are in a hot tub you are 90% free from gravity allowing your muscles and joints to relax and be at ease. You are able to take advantage of the great relaxation a hot tub has to offer.