Great Hills · Arboretum · Balcones Woods
Pool service in Great Hills
Great Hills, the Arboretum, Balcones Woods and Angus Valley are all inside Sullivan’s footprint. This is largely an eighties and nineties neighborhood, so most pools here are on their second or third set of equipment and the plaster has usually been redone at least once. Pools of this age reward being watched rather than reacted to: filter pressure and pump noise will tell you what is coming weeks before it arrives.
- Arboretum
- Balcones Woods
- Angus Valley
- Spicewood at Bull Creek
The ground under Great Hills
There is no named creek anywhere in this ZIP — the drainage here was engineered rather than inherited, which is why the ground reads the same street to street.
Edwards limestone, west of the Balcones Escarpment. The survey maps Eckrant here.
The ground the series mapped across each ZIP
- 1.5
- 3.2
- 4.4
- 5.1
- 6.0
- 7.5
Source: USDA NRCS Soil Survey (SSURGO), Travis County TX453, via Soil Data Access.
The canopy street trees the city has inventoried
- Live oak
- Cedar elm
- Other oak
- Pecan
- Crape myrtle
- Juniper (cedar)
- Everything else
Source: City of Austin Tree Inventory (data.austintexas.gov).
What we see in Great Hills
Older builds where the equipment has already been replaced once and is due again.
The ground under Great Hills
Thin soil over rock, steep lots, and a canopy of live oak and Ashe juniper. Decks stay put, but the leaf and pollen load is heavy from December through April and skimmer baskets fill fast.
The USDA soil survey maps Eckrant across 78759: rock at 20 cm, shrink–swell 6.0. It is the color this ZIP carries on the map above.
Neighborhoods we cover here
Each of these has its own page — the ground, the lot sizes and the trees change street to street, and so does what your pool needs.
672 of the 1,148 permitted pools in Great Hills are commercial rather than residential. If you look after an apartment deck, an HOA amenity pool or hotel water here, see commercial pool service.
Services we run here
Great Hills — questions people ask
Do you service pools in Great Hills, Austin?
Yes. Great Hills is one of the areas Sullivan’s Pool Service covers, and our routes already run through it — Great Hills, Arboretum, Balcones Woods and the streets around them, on a weekly schedule. Because your pool sits on a fixed route with a technician assigned to it, we can usually come back the same week when something breaks.
What should I expect from a pool in Great Hills?
Older builds where the equipment has already been replaced once and is due again. Age is the single best predictor of what any pool needs: under about ten years it is mostly chemistry and cleaning, and past fifteen the pump, heater, salt cell and plaster all start coming due one after another. Knowing which of those is closest is most of what a good weekly service gives you.
What ground is Great Hills built on, and why does it matter for a pool?
Edwards limestone, west of the Balcones Escarpment. Thin soil over rock, steep lots, and a canopy of live oak and Ashe juniper. Decks stay put, but the leaf and pollen load is heavy from December through April and skimmer baskets fill fast.
Pool service in Great Hills?
We are in Great Hills most weeks. Tell us the pool and we will quote it.