A customer contacted me recently in Chandler Arizona over his pool starting to turn green. The water chemistry tested good, and there was plenty of water flow running through the filter, so I inspected the Pentair 60 square foot DE filter to see if there were […]
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A customer in Gilbert contacted me, because their cartridge filter was leaking due to a crack in the bottom of the filter body. It turned into a full pool equipment installation since I ended up replacing the pump and all the above ground plumbing also. Pool […]
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I was contacted by a customer in Gilbert Arizona about a pool repair, to fix the heater bypass (3-way diverter valve) that was leaking. The valve was cracked, because the screws that hold the cover on were overtightened and cracked the valve body. A few of […]
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A home owner in Gilbert Arizona reached out over a green pool, and a pop up heads repair. There were multiple leaks at the 5 port water valve, which is the part of an in-ground cleaning system that controls the different cleaning zones of pop up […]
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Last week I got a call from a customer in Gilbert Arizona who inherited a house that was in desperate need of a green pool clean up. The pool was empty for about a year and full of rain water, leaves and black algae. The cartridges […]
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A long time customer in Gilbert Arizona contacted me this year to add a check valve, so the water stopped rushing back to the pool every time she opened the pump lid to empty the basket. I was unable to move the pump back on the […]
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Last week I was contacted by a customer for a green pool clean up in Gilbert Arizona, after their pool service stopped showing up. This pool has an in-ground cleaning system and was leaking severely at the water valve due to a poor installation. I drained […]
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My long time customer in Tempe Arizona still had an old, single speed pump which finally failed this year. It was time for a variable speed pump installation and as an added benefit, meet the new energy efficiency standards and save my customer some money on […]
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Today, I received a contact form entry from a customer in Gilbert Arizona regarding a pop up heads repair. The customer described that the pop up heads had lost pressure and were no longer coming up all the way. This is a common problem with this […]
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I got a call from a customer in Chandler Arizona for pool equipment installation. He had an old Pentair sand filter and single speed pump. I replaced the sand filter with a cartridge filter for the improved flow rate to better match the variable speed pump […]
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I was contacted recently by a customer in Gilbert who wanted a variable speed pump. His old, existing sand filter had a maximum flow rate of only 62 gallons per minute, which would have been a problem with a new pump with flow rates up to […]
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My name is Jason, and I am the owner/operator of Jason the pool guy pool service in Gilbert Arizona. I provide pool care services year around, performing maintenance and repairs to keep the pool looking good long term. I do filter cleanings, pool drains, variable speed […]
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I was contacted by a customer in Chandler Arizona who was having a problem with a booster pump that wouldn't stay primed. The ball valve on the return side pipe had a bad leak. I found several small leaks in the plumbing for the pool filter […]
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A couple weeks ago while at a service account in Tempe Arizona, I noticed the equipment pad was wet. The variable speed pump was leaking water onto the pad while running. In addition, the pump had no water in it after sitting for hours, which was […]
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A weekly service customer of mine who lives in Chandler Arizona required a pool repair last week, because the pump had a bad leak. The pump body (the volute) cracked and while it was running, sprayed water and flooded the equipment area. It's a variable speed pump […]
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I was contacted by customers in Gilbert for a variable speed pump replacement, because their pump motor was making a lot of noise and disturbing not only the home owners, but the neighbors as well. I believe the bearings were bad. The pump I replaced had […]
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I was contacted by a customer in Chandler who I do maintenance and repairs for that requested a routine filter clean and salt cell cleaning. When I opened the filter this time, I noticed a lot of white flaky scales inside the filter. After testing the […]
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I was contacted by a customer in Tempe Arizona because her pool was green. A local pool store had replaced her equipment a couple years ago and she had problems keeping the pool from turning green ever since. It had finally gotten away from her and […]
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I recently installed a new salt system at a customers house in Gilbert Arizona. The customer reached out to me again a few weeks later regarding a small pool repair. There were plumbing leaks due to poor glue connections between a couple of fittings on the […]
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I was contacted by a customer in Gilbert Arizona who wanted a salt system replacement. There was an old Hayward salt system in the past, but the display board had stopped working and the old cell had been removed. The customer wanted to go back to […]
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One of my long time customers has a rental property in Gilbert AZ, which had some pool repair issues that needed to be addressed before this years swim season. One problem was a broken drain cover. The pool is very old and had an outdated Aqua-star […]
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I just got hired by a customer recently who purchased a new home In Gilbert Arizona. I've been doing various repairs since I started working for them, but this week was a variable speed pump installation. The customer asked if I could replace the pump, because […]
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I was contacted by a customer in Gilbert Arizona to do a warranty repair on an A&A Manufacturing (Pentair) 6 port water valve. Some of the tabs inside the water valves lower base broke, causing water pressure to escape into zones (pipes) that should have been […]
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One of my long time service accounts in Tempe Arizona needed a pool repair this month. I installed the DE filter about 10 years ago and have maintained it regularly. Required maintenance for a DE filter is backwashing every 3 months (or more if necessary). Equally […]
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A customer I worked for in the past, in Gilbert Arizona, reached out because his old variable speed pump had finally failed. The old Hayward Eco-Star variable speed pump was the first variable speed pump Hayward made when the energy efficiency law, title 44, went into […]
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Pool equipment installation - I was contacted by a customer in Gilbert who wanted to replace their pool equipment. Pool equipment like a pump, equipment pad, diverter valves, PVC pipe and the filter, generally last 15 years. Their equipment pad was cracked and they had an […]
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I was contacted by a customer in Gilbert Arizona about a green pool. This family is surrounded by acreage with livestock and farm land. The swimming pool turned green because of high phosphates, a result of what surrounds the pool. Plant debris, fertilizer for the crops […]
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My long time customer in Gilbert Arizona needed a new cartridge filter. Pool equipment as a general rule lasts about 15 years. Her old cartridge filter's plastic tank was so dry rot from the Arizona sun, you could scratch it deeply with only your fingernail. When […]
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I was contacted by a customer in Gilbert Arizona, for a filter clean and inspection and to clean a salt cell. I cleaned the salt cell, but unfortunately upon inspection I noticed the cell had completely collapsed, crushed by water pressure. There was so much scale […]
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My long time customer in Gilbert Arizona notified me that his variable speed pool pump was making a funny noise and not circulating any water. The water valve for the pop up heads (the in ground cleaning system) had failed. I fixed the problem by cutting […]
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Pool equipment in the Arizona sun does not last much longer than 15-20 years. My customers in Tempe needed a new filter and equipment pad. The concrete equipment pad was cracked and the sand filter was too old to service with a sand change. I replaced […]
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