Weekly Pool Service in West Palm Beach, FL
Testing, cleaning and equipment checks every week. Chemicals included, from $170 a month.
A week is about as long as a pool here goes without attention before something starts moving the wrong way. Usually it is the chlorine, sometimes the pH, and in summer it can be both by Thursday.
Weekly service is one visit: test the water and correct it, clean the pool, check the equipment, and leave you a report showing what the readings were.
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Why a Week Is the Limit Here
Four things work against a pool in Palm Beach County, and they compound.
The UV load burns through chlorine and stabilizer at a rate that catches people off guard when they move down from anywhere north. Our water is mineral heavy, so scale builds on heaters, salt cells and the tile line. The landscaping people move here for drops leaves and pollen into skimmers continuously. And a summer storm delivers rain and debris in the same afternoon, diluting the chemistry and loading the filter at once.
None of those is dramatic on its own. Together they are why a pool that was fine last Tuesday is cloudy by the next one, and why two weeks unattended in August usually means a green to clean rather than a cleaning.
What We Do on Every Visit
Same technician each week, so somebody actually knows your pool. Here is what the visit covers.
Water Testing and Balancing
Every visit we test free chlorine, combined chlorine, pH, total alkalinity, cyanuric acid and calcium hardness, then correct whatever has drifted.
pH is the one most people underestimate. Chlorine loses its ability to kill things as pH climbs, and past 8.0 it falls off sharply. So a pool can read 3 ppm of chlorine and still not be sanitizing properly, purely because the pH drifted up. The CDC guidance for home pools makes the same point. If you only ever check one thing yourself, check pH.
Combined chlorine is the other one worth knowing about. That is chlorine which has already reacted with sweat, sunscreen and organic matter and is no longer sanitizing anything. When a pool smells strongly of chlorine, that smell is combined chlorine, not free chlorine. It means the pool needs shocking, not less chlorine. It is the most common thing homeowners get backwards.
Cleaning and Brushing
Skim the surface, vacuum the floor, empty the skimmer and pump baskets, and brush the walls, steps and tile line.
Brushing is not cosmetic, and it is the step that gets skipped. It lifts the biofilm off the wall, which is the slick layer algae establishes itself in before you can see anything. On a surface that already has algae, brushing physically breaks it open so the chlorine can actually reach it. Dose a pool perfectly, skip the brushing, and you can still watch it go green, because the algae is sitting under a film the chemical never touches.
One caution if you brush it yourself: stainless bristles are for plaster, plastic for vinyl or fiberglass. A steel brush used every week will wear a plaster surface down over time.
Equipment and Filter Checks
Pump, filter, heater, timer, and the salt cell if you have one. We are looking for the things that are cheap this week and expensive next month: rising filter pressure, air in the pump basket, a motor that has changed pitch, a cell scaling up.
Filter pressure is the useful one to watch. Rising pressure with good flow means the filter is loading up and needs cleaning. Low pressure with a full basket means something is restricting the suction side instead, which is a different problem. Sand and DE filters get backwashed when the pressure calls for it. Deep cleans on cartridges go beyond a weekly visit, and that is filter cleaning.
Run time matters more than people think. A pool should turn its entire volume through the filter roughly once every six hours. Plenty of the persistent algae problems we get called out to are not chemistry problems at all, they are a timer somebody shortened to save electricity. If that describes your setup, a variable speed pump lets you run longer and slower for less than you are spending now.
The Numbers We Work To
These are the operating ranges we balance to.
| Free chlorine | 2 to 4 ppm |
| Combined chlorine | under 0.4 ppm |
| pH | 7.4 to 7.6 |
| Total alkalinity | 80 to 120 ppm |
| Calcium hardness | 200 to 400 ppm |
| Cyanuric acid | 30 to 50 ppm |
| Saturation index | between -0.3 and +0.3 |
Cyanuric acid is the one that quietly ruins pools around here. It is the stabilizer that protects chlorine from the sun, and if you sanitize with trichlor pucks or dichlor you are adding it every single time. It does not evaporate and nothing consumes it, so it accumulates. Once it climbs well past that range your chlorine test still reads fine while doing less and less actual work. The only way down is dilution. That is why it gets tested weekly on any pool running stabilized chlorine, and why we would rather catch it at 60 than at 150.
The saturation index rolls pH, alkalinity, calcium hardness and temperature into a single number that tells you whether your water will lay scale down on the heater and tile or start pulling calcium back out of your plaster. Our water is hard, so pools here drift toward the scaling side. Keeping it in range is most of the reason a well maintained pool needs an acid wash far less often. If yours has already scaled at the waterline, that is pool tile cleaning rather than chemistry.
Your Service Report
After every visit you get a digital report: what was done, what the readings were, what was added, and anything that needs watching.
It matters most if you travel or spend part of the year up north, because you can see the pool was actually serviced and what state the water was in when we left it.
What Weekly Service Costs
Full service starts at $170 a month. That covers weekly visits, all the chemicals, and filter cleaning twice a year.
Chemical-only starts at $100 a month if you are happy to net and brush yourself and just want the chemistry handled properly.
Both include the chemicals. Worth checking when you compare quotes, because a rate that excludes chems is not the rate you end up paying.
What moves the price: pool size, whether you have a screen enclosure, how much tree cover sits over the water, and what condition it is in when we start. A pool that is already green is a recovery job first and a weekly account afterwards.
No contracts. If we are not doing the job, you can stop.
Plans That Fit How You Use the Pool
Not every pool needs the same visit. A screened pool with nothing overhanging it is genuinely less work than an open pool under ficus, and it should not cost the same.
We also handle seasonal residents, rental and Airbnb properties where the pool has to be right on turnover day, and salt systems where the cell needs inspecting rather than ignoring. If you are not sure a salt pool is behaving, worth knowing that salt systems are lower maintenance than chlorine, not no maintenance.
We serve West Palm Beach and the surrounding Palm Beach County communities. Request a quote or call (561) 567-0822 and we will come and look at the pool before we give you a number.
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Frequently Asked Questions
The questions we get asked most. If yours is not here, call (561) 567-0822.
Testing and correcting free chlorine, combined chlorine, pH, total alkalinity, cyanuric acid and calcium hardness. Skimming, vacuuming, emptying the skimmer and pump baskets, and brushing the walls, steps and tile line. A check on the pump, filter, heater, timer and salt cell. Filter cleaning twice a year is included in the plan. You get a digital report after every visit with the readings on it.
Free chlorine 2 to 4 ppm, pH 7.4 to 7.6, total alkalinity 80 to 120 ppm, calcium hardness 200 to 400 ppm and cyanuric acid 30 to 50 ppm. Combined chlorine should be under 0.4 ppm. pH is the one to watch if you only check one thing, because chlorine gets less effective at killing anything as pH rises.
Because it does not have enough. That smell is combined chlorine, which is chlorine that has already reacted with sweat, sunscreen and organics and is finished working. A strong chlorine smell means the pool needs shocking, not less chlorine. It is the single most common thing people get backwards about pool water.
Full service starts at $170 a month and chemical-only at $100, both with the chemicals included. What moves the number is pool size, whether you have a screen enclosure, how much tree cover you have and what condition the pool is in when we start. There are no contracts.
Plenty of people do, and if you have a screened pool with nothing overhanging it and you enjoy the routine, you probably can. Where it goes wrong is stabilizer. If you sanitize with trichlor pucks you are adding cyanuric acid every time, it accumulates, and eventually your chlorine reading looks fine while doing very little. That is the point most DIY pools quietly go green, and by then the only fix is draining part of the water.
