Everything we have written, grouped by the problem it solves. Start with the topic that matches what your pool is doing.
How to tell a pool company worth keeping from one you will fire by August.
The visits stopped, the invoices did not, and nobody is returning your calls. There is an order to doing this that keeps both your leverage and your water, and most people get it backwards.
The pool service market in Plano is full of rotating technicians, vague pricing, and long contracts. Here are the 10 questions that separate a great pool company from a frustrating one.
What pool service actually costs in Plano and DFW, with real numbers rather than a phone call.
Three quotes at $135, $165, and $210 look like a clear decision until you find out they are written in three different billing models. Here is how to compare them properly.
Most Plano pool companies hide their prices behind a phone call. Here is exactly what weekly service, one-time cleans, and green pool recovery actually cost in 2026, and what drives the number up or down.
Pumps, filters, and heaters are where pool ownership gets expensive, and where the advice online is least reliable. These guides cover what actually fails, which repairs are worth doing, and where a job stops being safe to attempt yourself.
The pool is often the most expensive system on the property after the roof and the foundation, and it is the one nobody looked at. Here is how to look at it during the option period, while you still have leverage.
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.
North Texas does not have a normal pool season. Our winters are mild but punctuated by hard freezes, and our summers punish any lapse in chemistry. These guides cover what to do as the calendar turns.
A pool that has been effortless since April starts misbehaving in the second week of August, and the owner has changed nothing. That is exactly the point.
The close-in-September habit does not survive North Texas. Our winters are mild but punctuated by hard freezes, and the pool you walk away from in November is the one you pay to recover in April.
Something is wrong with the water and you want it fixed. These guides diagnose the cause before prescribing the cure.
Three parts per million of free chlorine, and the walls still feel slick. The problem is not the chlorine number, it is the number you are reading it against.
There is 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.
The routine that keeps a pool clear: water chemistry, salt systems, and the weekly habits that stop small drifts from becoming green water. Written for North Texas conditions, where heat and mineral-rich fill water both work against you.
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.
Salt pools are not chlorine-free and not lower maintenance. They trade weekly chemical handling for a standing requirement to control pH and keep the cell clean, which is harder here than most places.
Clear water and a working barrier are the two things standing between a backyard pool and a tragedy. These guides cover what the law actually requires, what the evidence supports, and what to check yourself.
The chemicals that keep a pool safe are, on the shelf, the most dangerous things most homeowners keep at home. Three combinations cause almost every serious injury, and good storage makes all three impossible.
Almost every article on Texas pool fence law cites a statute that does not apply to single-family homes. Here is what actually governs your backyard pool, and the barrier checklist that matters more than the law does.
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True Texan Pools keeps your water swim-ready year-round across Plano and all of DFW. Clear pricing, no contracts, and a photo report after every visit. Austin handles every job personally.