Real guidance from Austin Andrews on what your pool actually needs in the Texas heat. Pricing, water chemistry, green pool recovery, freeze protection, and how to hire a company you can trust.
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The visits stopped, the invoices didn’t, and nobody is returning your calls. There’s an order to doing this that keeps both your leverage and your water, and most people get it backwards.
Three quotes at $135, $165, and $210 look like a clear decision until you find out they’re written in three different billing models. Here is how to compare them properly.
Everybody publishes the task list. Nobody publishes how long each task honestly takes, what it leaves behind, or what is deliberately excluded. Those are the three things you actually want.
The pool is often the most expensive system on the property after the roof and the foundation, and it’s the one nobody looked at. Here is how to look at it during the option period, while you still have leverage.
A pool that has been effortless since April starts misbehaving in the second week of August, and the owner has changed nothing. That’s exactly the point.
Three parts per million of free chlorine, and the walls still feel slick. The problem isn’t the chlorine number, it’s the number you’re reading it against.
There’s a definitive test for this, it costs nothing, and it takes 24 hours. Here is how to run it, and how the pattern of the loss tells you which part of the system to suspect.
Ask ten people and nine say eight hours. That number answers the wrong question. What your pool needs is a volume of water moved, and hours are just how you buy it.
You can scrub the tile, and you should, but unless you deal with what put the scale there it comes back before the season is out. In DFW, that means understanding why your calcium hardness only ever goes up.
Six different faults produce the same symptom, and the usual response, dumping in more shock, only corrects one of them. Here is how to find out which one you actually have.
True Texan Pools keeps your water swim-ready all year, across Plano and the rest of DFW. Clear pricing, a photo report after every visit, and Austin doing every job himself.