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Pool cleaning

Weekly pool cleaning and maintenance

Weekly pool service from Sullivan’s is a same-day-each-week visit that covers the water and the equipment together: skim, brush and vacuum, empty both baskets, test and dose the water, and check that the pump, filter and cleaner are doing what they should. You get told what was done and what needs watching. In Austin the visit is built around the season — heavy skimming through cedar drop from December, chlorine demand through the summer.

What happens on a visit

  • Surfaces

    Surface skimmed, walls, steps and waterline brushed, floor vacuumed.

    Baskets emptied and filter pressure read against its clean baseline.

  • Water

    Free and total chlorine, pH, alkalinity, calcium hardness and stabilizer.

    Dosed to correct — and told when a correction is only treating a symptom.

  • Equipment

    Pump, filter, heater, cleaner and any automation, checked while on site.

    A note after every visit: what was done, what was added, what to watch.

Sullivan’s runs fixed weekly routes rather than covering the metro at random, so the drive times stay short enough for same-week work. See the areas we cover.

The detail, in full

  • What this service involves, start to finish

    Weekly pool service from Sullivan’s is a same-day-each-week visit that covers the water and the equipment together: skim, brush and vacuum, empty both baskets, test and dose the water, and check that the pump, filter and cleaner are doing what they should. You get told what was done and what needs watching. In Austin the visit is built around the season — heavy skimming through cedar drop from December, chlorine demand through the summer.

    • Skim the surface, brush the walls, steps and waterline, vacuum the floor
    • Empty the skimmer and pump baskets, check the filter pressure against its clean baseline
    • Test free and total chlorine, pH, alkalinity, calcium hardness and stabilizer
    • Dose to correct, and tell you when a correction is treating a symptom
    • Check the pump, filter, heater, cleaner and any automation while on site
    • A note after every visit — what was done, what was added, what to watch

  • How often does a pool need to be serviced in Austin?

    Weekly, through the whole year rather than the swim season. Austin summers push water temperatures past 90°F, which burns chlorine fast, and the winter cedar and live-oak drop fills baskets whether anyone is swimming or not. Every-other-week service tends to cost more over a year than it saves, because it is the recovery visits that get expensive.

  • Do I need to be home for pool service?

    No. We need gate access and a dog that is either friendly or inside. If the gate is locked we will agree a code or a key location with you.

  • What happens if my pool turns green between visits?

    Call us. A green pool after a storm or a heavy bather load is a recovery job, not a failure of the weekly service, and it is quicker and cheaper the sooner it is started.

These are the questions about weekly pool cleaning and maintenance. Every question we are asked often is answered across the whole site.