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More pool care advice for Plano and DFW homeowners

68 guides from Austin Andrews on what your pool actually needs in the Texas heat, oldest of them still as true as the day they went up.

An empty stone pool deck at a newly bought North Texas home, with only a water test kit and a coiled hose beside the steps of a clear pool.

Hiring8 min read

Just bought a house with a pool: your first 30 days

A week-by-week checklist for a new pool: what to photograph and label, the four water numbers and their targets, the filter baseline, and the equipment reserve.

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A chalky, UV-cracked old pool pump with a split lid and rust-stained bolts stands beside a newer clean pump on a sunlit concrete pad.

Equipment9 min read

How long pool equipment lasts in Texas heat

Realistic lives for every major part of a North Texas pad, what shortens each one here, and how to turn them into a monthly reserve so a failure becomes a planned purchase.

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A gloved hand holds an opened salt cell crusted with white calcium beside a cut section of heater pipe lined with the same deposit.

Maintenance8 min read

North Texas hard water: what it does to your whole pool

Where the calcium in a North Texas pool comes from, what it does to the heater, salt cell, filter, and plaster, and how to bring hardness down without draining on clay soil.

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An elevated view over a suburban Collin County backyard with a rectangular pool, small spa, equipment pad against the house, and mature oaks along the fence line.

Pricing8 min read

What it really costs to own a pool in Collin County

Each cost line worked out for a typical Collin County pool, from the pump’s electricity to a monthly reserve for plaster, with the arithmetic shown so you can run it for yours.

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A complete residential pool equipment pad photographed straight on: pump, cartridge filter with pressure gauge, timer box, gas heater, salt cell, and three valves on white PVC.

Equipment9 min read

Pool equipment 101: everything on your pad and what it does

Every box on a North Texas pad named and explained in the order water reaches it, how long each lasts here, and a sixty-second weekly check that catches failures early.

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A return jet ripples the surface of a dark winter pool with frost on the shaded stone coping and dormant brown grass beyond.

Seasonal7 min read

Should your pool run all winter in North Texas?

The winter pump schedule for a North Texas pool: the hours, what they cost on each kind of pump, what the water still needs, and what changes for a salt pool or a hard freeze.

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A split running along a white PVC pipe at a frost-covered pool equipment pad, with bare branches behind under overcast winter light.

Troubleshooting8 min read

Freeze damage: how to tell if your pool equipment cracked

A seven-point walk-around for the equipment pad, a restart routine with a symptom table, which freeze repairs cost the most, and where the job stops being a homeowner’s.

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A clear suburban North Texas backyard pool under a low January sun, with bare crepe myrtles, dormant straw-colored grass, and a brick house wall behind.

Seasonal10 min read

The North Texas pool year, month by month

The job that matters in each month of a North Texas pool year, the water temperature behind it, and the mistake that turns it into a repair or a green pool.

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