A green pool back to blue in four days
Gunite kidney pool, Sycamore Lane
- Free chlorine
- Before: 0 ppmAfter: 3 ppm
- pH
- Before: 8.1After: 7.4
- Time
- 4 days
- Cost
- $420 all in
Now booking spring openings
Pool service · Briar Glen, Virginia
Clear water, every week.
Weekly cleaning, openings and closings, repairs and equipment, by Certified Pool Operators who test, balance and send you a report before they leave.
- a weekly visit
- From $45
- every week
- Same tech
- or we come back free
- Clear water
What we do
Every pool job, one crew
From the weekly round to a new heater, six kinds of work, all by our own Certified Pool Operators.
A weekly visit
Thirty minutes, read like a test strip
Every visit runs the same six steps, in the same order, and you get the readings by text before the truck leaves.
Prices →- 01
Test the water
Chlorine, pH, alkalinity, stabilizer and, on salt pools, the salt: six readings from a drop-test kit, not a guess.
- 02
Skim and empty baskets
Leaves and bugs off the top, the skimmer and pump baskets emptied, so the water keeps moving.
- 03
Brush the walls
Walls, steps and the waterline tile brushed down, where algae starts long before you can see it.
- 04
Vacuum the floor
Whatever the brush brought down, vacuumed up, and the robot's bag emptied if you have one.
- 05
Balance and check
Chemicals added to bring every reading back in range, then the pump, filter pressure and heater looked over.
- 06
Text the report
Before the truck leaves you get the readings, what we added and a photo of the water.
Pool stories
Back to blue, pool by pool
A few jobs from this season: what we found, what we did, the water before and after, and what it cost.
A 1970s equipment pad, rebuilt
Ranch house pool, Pelham Court
- Pump power
- Before: 1,700 WAfter: 310 W at night
- Filter pressure
- Before: 28 psiAfter: 12 psi
- Time
- 1 day
- Cost
- $3,250 all in
Opened after two winters shut
Vinyl pool, Old Orchard Road
- Free chlorine
- Before: 0 ppmAfter: 3 ppm
- Alkalinity
- Before: 40 ppmAfter: 100 ppm
- Time
- 2 days
- Cost
- $540 all in
- keeping Briar Glen's pools since
- 2012
- pools on our weekly routes
- 310
- Certified Pool Operators
- 4
- to answer a green pool
- 48 h
- readings after every visit
- 6
Where the trucks go
Halcyon Pool Co. 41 Quarry Run Road Briar Glen, VAThe trucks leave the shop on Quarry Run Road every morning at seven. We cover Briar Glen and every town within twenty kilometres, weekly from April to October and for repairs all year.
Get directions
Guides
Notes from the pump room
Why pools turn green after a storm
A summer storm can turn a clear pool green by the weekend. What happens to the water, and the three things to do before we get there.
Salt or chlorine: what we tell our clients
A salt pool is still a chlorine pool. What a salt system changes, what it costs and who it suits.
Opening day: the clients' checklist
What to do in the week before we open your pool, so the cover comes off quickly and the water clears in a day or two.
Pool notes, four times a season
Short notes from Dana: when to book your opening, what a heat wave does to your chlorine, and the one thing to check before you leave on holiday.
Green, cloudy or just tired of it? Let's take a look.
Tell us about your pool and send a photo if you have one. We'll come over, test the water, look over the equipment and leave you a written plan and price.
