Pools we have taken from green to swim-ready
All of these are ours, taken on the job in back gardens around DFW. No stock, no colour correction, and no claims attached to them beyond what you can see in the frame.
Three jobs
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BeforeAfterSlide pool recovery
BeforeAfterBackyard pool reset
BeforeAfterSpa and pool rescue
One pool, start to finish
A before and an after can be two different pools
This is the same freeform pool and raised spa, in order: green, then clearing with the vacuum still in the water and the jugs still on the deck, then finished. Same corner, same afternoon. The middle of a recovery is the part nobody photographs, which is exactly why it is worth showing.
- 1
Where it started. You cannot see the second step down. - 2
Algae up to the coping, and staining on the stone above the line. - 3
The raised spa shares the water, so it goes green with the pool. - 4
Part way through. Shocked, brushed, and on the vacuum. - 5
Clear enough to see the steps again, and still filtering. - 6
Finished. Same pool, same afternoon light, same corner of the deck.
“Green” covers a wider range than people expect
Which of these your pool looks like is most of what sets the price of a recovery, and it is the one thing a photograph answers better than a paragraph does.
Pale and cloudy. This is a couple of weeks, not a season. 
Dark green, with a diving board nobody should be using. 
Bright green, though the floor tile still shows through.
The work behind clear water
We show up, rain or shine 
Cleaned bottom to top 
Getting after the algae 
How it ought to look
Pools on the route
The other half of the job, and the half that never makes a dramatic photograph: water that has simply never been allowed to get away from anybody.
Geometric pool and spa, kept weekly 
Stone spa and waterfall, mid-visit 
A formal water feature, which counts as a pool to us
About these photos
- Are these your own photos?
- Every one. They were taken by Austin on the job, on a phone, in customers' back gardens across DFW. Nothing here is stock, and nothing has been colour corrected to make the water look better than it was.
- How long does a green pool take to come back?
- It depends on how far gone it is and on the filter, so we will not put a number on it from a web page. What the sequence on this page shows is the shape of it: shock and brush, then filter and vacuum, then keep filtering until it clears. A pool you can see the bottom of is a different job from one you cannot.
- Can a pool this green really be saved without draining it?
- Usually, and usually it should be. Draining a pool in Collin County clay is a structural risk rather than a reset: an empty shell can move. Almost everything on this page was recovered with the water still in it.
- Will you show my pool on here?
- Only if you say yes. We photograph every visit because the report needs it, and those photos go to you and stay there. Nothing appears on this page without the owner agreeing to it first, and no address, name, or street ever appears with it.
Your pool gets photographed too, every visit
Not for this page. For you. Every weekly visit ends with a report showing what was done and what the water read that day, so you never have to be home to find out, and never have to take our word for it.