LOS ANGELES: Locked down, hot and desperate for a dip? If you live in Indianapolis and fancy putting a pool in your back yard there's a three-week wait - but that's just for an appointment to order one for next year.
Epple said orders for its steel and composite pool walls surged 200 per cent in 60 days after a lacklustre March and April and he has now doubled output by taking on more workers, adding shifts and paying lots of overtime. "I 100 per cent attribute this to people quarantined at home," he said, adding that customers faced a three-week wait for an appointment just to talk about installations for 2021.
"We're hearing from members that have contracts booked out to late 2021 and even into early 2022," said the alliance's president Sabeena Hickman.It's a similar story in Spain, a country known for its sizzling summer temperatures which imposed one of Europe's toughest lockdowns to curb the spread of COVID-19.
But sales at its community pools division, which supplies pools and equipment for clients such as hotels, dropped 11.7 per cent in the first half of the year due to the impact of lockdowns.
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