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Regular Pool Service from Only $29 a Month
$29 Monthly Rebalancing
With this service, popular among salt system pool owners, and starting at only $29 a month, we service your pool once per month, checking and balancing total alkalinity, pH, calcium hardness, and cyanuric acid, and adding chlorine for routing shocking if deemed necessary.
$99 Silver Level Weekly Clean & Chlorinate
With this level of service, starting at just $99 a month, Pool Service America will service your pool each week, performing routine cleaning services such as vacuuming, brushing, emptying pump and skimmer baskets, and filter cleaning as necessary. We also add chlorine to shock the pool and leave a residual chlorine. This service is popular among shorter term homeowners and customers comfortable with taking personal responsibility for overall water balance.
$125 Gold Level Weekly with Science Based Chemical Management
With Our Gold level service, popular with long term homeowners and starting at only $125 a month, we perform all the cleaning and chlorination services of Silver level service, but with Pool Service America's Science Based Chemical Management, checking and balancing not only chlorine but also total alkalinity, pH, calcium hardness, and cyanuric acid, all important to properly balanced water, and in the aggregate contributing to more sanitary water and helping to protect valuable pool surfaces and equipment.
$139 Platinum Level Weekly Plus Algaecide
Our Platinum level of service starts at $139 a month and offers everything our Gold level service offers, cleaning your pool and balancing your core chemicals, but with the addition of regular algaecide treatments to help prevent algae formation.
More About Our Regular Pool Service
Pool service involves much more than it frequently seems. One can make the case that professional and
regular attendance to your water chemistry as provided by our Gold Level of service, principally chlorine, pH, total alkalinity, calcium hardness, and cyanuric acid,
is the most valuable part of the service. Without it, you much more
rapidly drift toward expensive problems such as eroded surfaces, which
costs thousands of dollars to repair, or surfaces with deposits, which
costs hundreds of dollars to fix, as well as increased corrosion of
equipment.
So that we can provide these Gold level services, our associates are provided with and extensively trained in the use of complete chemical testing kits, which have 13 different chemical reagents to allow for overall water balance testing, as opposed to the 2 or 4 reagent kits typical to less professional providers. In addition to this, we are one of the few companies in the nation that equips its associates with salt testing kits, allowing them to double check salt levels in pools to guard against mistakes caused by errant salt system control box readings, a common problem with salt pools.
Stay Well
Much less well known than it should be is the fact that serious illness inducing bacteria and protozoa
such as giardia, cryptosporidium, E. coli, and others can lurk in pools, hot tubs, and water features. Morbid attention was briefly brought to this in early 2009 when Brazlian model and Miss World Finalist Mariana Bridi da Costa (wiki) had her arms and legs amputated, only to die a couple of days later, due to an infection of pseudomonas aeruginosa, a bacteria common to improperly maintained hot tubs. Regretfully much less attention is brought to the more common severe diareah and fever risk of more common ailments attributable to pool pathogens that can be reduced by proper chemical management as offered by Pool Service America. This is the health of your family and friends we are talking about. Why would you trust that to an amateur with no training?
Others Simply Don't Know How to Do It Right
Within the pool service industry, it is regretfully quite common for companies to include all chemicals, albeit undefined, then not actually add much if anything beyond chlorine. The harsh reality is that most of your typical pool guys don't know what they are doing and regardless never have enough money in their pockets to buy all the chemicals that they should if they did know what they were doing. At Pool Service America, we stock our trucks with all the necessary chemicals every day, train our associates extensively on how to properly care for a pool, not only initially but on an ongoing basis, and then utilize activity logs which are reviewed daily by management to make sure we are utilizing proper water management techniques. The rare exceptions out there are typically Pool Service America trained former associates, but we would submit that without our intense culture they tend to regress to the more amateur like industry standards.
A smaller number of our competitors have joined a recent trend of quot;plus chemicals", charging a rate for service with extra charges for chemicals, frequently with (only) chlorine and muriatic acid included. We evaluated this pricing methodology, as well, and came to the conclusion that this was undesirable as
1) it would likely result in undesirable
variability in important chemical levels due to a variety of reasons
which would then result in accelerated corrosion of customers'
equipment and surfaces as well as compromised water quality,
2) the
process of constantly having to call customers to sell chemicals would
be a nuisance to the typical pool owner,
3) we felt that the pricing was
misleading, as it tends to add up to more in the end, but seems like
less up front, and
4) it takes us out of our
position of aligned interests in your pool quality, . In short, we stayed with our all chemicals included
Advocacy Pricing Strategy because we felt it was right.
The second element of value with professional pool service is the
value of the chemicals themselves, at least in the case with proper
water management with an all chemicals including pricing model, such
as ours. According to PK Data, the average swimming pool owner in the
United States taking care of his own pool spends $282 a year on
chemicals, a number that is likely much higher in Florida due to year
around use and higher average temperatures, and a number that may be
artificially low due to pool owners not adding all the chemicals they
should to avoid the types of surface and equipment problems mentioned
in the prior paragraph.
The third element of value with professional pool service is what
customers generally notice the most, the cleaning functions,
vacuuming, brushing, and skimming the pool, emptying the baskets, and
cleaning the filters. Our associates are provided with commercial quality water vacuums
and other equipment to allow them to be more effective at this.
As Inexpensive as Possible...
There are competitors, if you could call them that, that offer services along the lines of our Silver level of services, but without some of our corporate bells and whistles that make up The Pool Service America Difference, such as professional uniforms, criminal background checks, and more. These people frequently value their time at a couple of dollars an hour, commonly have criminal records that run pages and contain serious violent crime convictions, generally have limited technical knowledge of their trade, particularly with regard to chemicals and water borne pathogens, and tend to take shortcuts that are not immediately obvious at the expense of the life and appearance of your
surfaces and equipment, not to mention the sanitation of your water.
In some cases their monthly charge is a bit less, but we submit the monthly cost of them is substantially more.
Isn't it true with many things that the cheapest option ends up being the most expensive?
An element of our mission statement is to "make pool ownership as inexpensive and effort free as possible,"
but an important part of keeping overall pool ownership as inexpensive as possible is doing our job right.
Ask yourself, does it really make sense to trust your valuable pool
surface, and for that matter the health of your family, to someone
that "manages" his "business" based upon how much cash he has in his
pocket? Does it not concern you that water borne contaminants can make you ill? Do yourself and
your family a favor - hire pros. Otherwise, you are likely costing
yourself as much as hundreds per year in additional expenses due to surface erosion,
unsightly and expensive to remove calcium carbonate deposits on surfaces, and excess equipment wear. |
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