Weekly Pool Service

Pools in Gretna, Marrero, Harvey and Terrytown sit in one of the most demanding pool climates in the country. Water temperatures push past 85 degrees from June through September, the humidity keeps evaporation and chemical loss unpredictable, and afternoon thunderstorms dump rainwater that drops your chlorine and alkalinity in a single hour. Add heavy tree cover from live oaks and crepe myrtles and the pollen load every spring, and a pool that looked perfect on Friday can be cloudy by Monday.

Bi-weekly service simply does not keep up here. Algae needs about 48 hours of low sanitizer to take hold, so a fourteen-day gap in July gives it two full windows to bloom. Weekly visits keep free chlorine in range, keep the filter from loading up with organics, and catch equipment problems while they are still cheap. Customers who switch from every-other-week to weekly almost always spend less over a season because they stop paying for shock treatments and recovery visits.

Your technician arrives on the same weekday, so you always know when to expect us. The visit starts with a walk of the deck and a look at the water — clarity, level, any staining at the waterline or debris on the floor tells us what the pool has been doing since last week. Then comes the physical work: skimming the surface, netting the bottom, brushing walls, steps, benches and tanning ledges, emptying the skimmer and pump baskets, and vacuuming as needed.

Only after the pool is physically clean do we test the water, because debris and organics change the readings. We run a full panel — free and total chlorine, pH, total alkalinity, calcium hardness, cyanuric acid, and salt on chlorine-generator pools — and dose based on your pool's actual volume rather than a guess. Filter pressure is checked against your clean baseline and the filter is backwashed or rinsed on schedule, not on a hunch.

Before we leave, we do a quick pass on the equipment pad: pump sound and seal, timer or automation schedule, heater condition, salt cell output, and any wet spots in the plumbing that suggest a slow leak. You get a text with photos and your readings the same day, so there is never a question about whether the pool was serviced.

Every chemical your pool needs during normal weekly service is included in the flat monthly rate: liquid chlorine, muriatic acid, sodium bicarbonate, calcium chloride, stabilizer, shock, algaecide, clarifier and salt top-offs. There is no surprise line item after a rainy week and no separate bill after a heat wave. The only things quoted separately are equipment parts, specialty treatments like phosphate removers on a badly neglected pool, and one-time recovery work.

Saltwater pools get extra attention because our water chemistry is hard on cells. We check output, inspect the cell for scale, and clean it when readings drift instead of waiting for the low-salt alarm. That habit is the difference between a cell that lasts five seasons and one that dies in three.