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In the early 1980s, Bob and Skip Ast already knew Arizona pools from the ground up. The brothers had founded Shasta Pools, a Phoenix-area builder, and they saw the same thing every season: desert dust, palm litter and monsoon debris settling on the bottom of freshly built pools. In 1982 they started a second company to deal with it from the inside out. They called it A&A Manufacturing.
Phoenix in the 1970s and 1980s was the cradle of in-floor pool cleaning. Three local manufacturers grew up there building systems that hid cleaning heads in the pool floor and steps, and A&A was one of them. Its approach became familiar to a generation of pool builders: zones of pop-up heads, a water valve that sends flow to each zone in turn, and a large drain that collects what the heads push along. The company also built skimmers, debris-removal drains, water features and sanitation equipment, all aimed at the same goal of a pool that stays clean with less hands-on work.
The appeal to builders and owners was easy to understand. A pool with cleaning heads in the floor has no hose snaking across the deck and no machine to haul out before a party. The system runs on the pool's own circulation, on a schedule, whether anyone is home or not.
The Phoenix in-floor pioneers were eventually absorbed one by one by the industry's largest manufacturers. Caretaker Systems was sold to Polaris Pool Systems, now part of Fluidra, in 2004. Paramount Pool Systems went to Hayward in 2018. In early April 2020, A&A became the last of the three, when Pentair, whose pool business is based in Sanford, North Carolina, bought the company and added in-floor cleaning to its product line. A&A's Arizona operations and staff stayed in place, with general manager Don McChesney continuing to run the business.
For pool owners, the acquisition meant something practical: an A&A system installed decades ago is now supported by one of the largest names in pool equipment, and replacement heads, valves and drains remain in production.
A&A's catalog covers in-floor cleaning and the circulation and sanitation equipment around it. HVAC365 carries a focused selection:
In-floor systems are designed into a pool before the shell is shot, and each head is plumbed to a zone. Replacement heads need to match the original system and fitting, so the existing head style and color are the starting point for any repair. Heads are often chosen in colors that blend with the interior finish, which is why the same part can come in white, gray, tan or black.
Pentair acquired A&A Manufacturing in early April 2020, adding in-floor pool cleaning systems to its product line.
A&A was founded in 1982 by brothers Bob and Skip Ast, who also founded the Phoenix-area pool builder Shasta Pools.
A&A is based in Arizona, and its operations and staff remained there after the Pentair acquisition.
It is a set of cleaning heads built into the pool floor and steps. A valve sends water to each zone of heads in turn, and the heads push debris toward a main drain, cleaning the pool without a robot or hose.
Yes. Cleaning heads are replaceable parts designed to fit the existing fittings. Matching the original head style is the key to a proper fit.
