Gracy Farms · Quail Hollow · North Park Estates
Pool service in North Austin
Sullivan’s covers North Austin — Gracy Farms, Quail Hollow, North Park Estates and the streets along Walnut Creek. The pools here are the oldest we service, and they sit on expansive clay. Old gunite on ground that moves is the combination where leaks actually happen rather than merely get suspected, and it is the one place a proper leak test regularly pays for itself.
- Gracy Farms
- Quail Hollow
- North Park Estates
- Walnut Creek
The ground under North Austin
These are the oldest pools on the route, sitting on the deepest clay we work.
Blackland Prairie clay, east of the Balcones Escarpment. The survey maps Eddy 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 North Austin
The oldest pools we service, on the ground most likely to have moved them.
The ground under North Austin
Deep expansive clay that swells and shrinks with the season. It moves coping, decking and buried plumbing, so a slow loss of water here is worth investigating rather than topping up.
The USDA soil survey maps Eddy across 78758: rock at 36 cm, shrink–swell 1.5. 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.
240 of the 339 permitted pools in North Austin 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
North Austin — questions people ask
Do you service pools in North Austin?
Yes. North Austin is one of the areas Sullivan’s Pool Service covers, and our routes already run through it — Gracy Farms, Quail Hollow, North Park Estates 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 North Austin?
The oldest pools we service, on the ground most likely to have moved them. 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 North Austin built on, and why does it matter for a pool?
Blackland Prairie clay, east of the Balcones Escarpment. Deep expansive clay that swells and shrinks with the season. It moves coping, decking and buried plumbing, so a slow loss of water here is worth investigating rather than topping up.
Pool service in North Austin?
We are in North Austin most weeks. Tell us the pool and we will quote it.