Filter clean
The $89 filter clean was money well spent. They wrote the clean pressure on the filter so I know when it is actually due. Took a week to get on the route in June, which is fair for June.
Robert K.Winter Park · 6 months ago on Google
Pool filter cleaning in Winter Park
Opened, cleaned, inspected and put back, with the clean starting pressure written down.
Signs you need it
When to call about filter cleaning
The gauge keeps climbing
About ten psi over the clean reading means it’s time.
Cloudy water that won’t clear
A torn pleat lets dirt straight back in.
Weak flow at the returns
A clogged filter starves the whole system, heater included.
How we do it
The honest version of filter cleaning
The number that makes it work
We write your filter’s clean starting pressure on the order at the first service, so from then on you and we are both reading the same gauge. Without it, “clean the filter” is a guess sold four times a year.
What we find when it comes apart
Torn cartridge pleats, a cracked manifold, a collapsed lateral in a sand filter: all of them let dirt straight back into the pool while the gauge still looks fine. The inside is inspected and photographed every time it’s opened.
Media has a life, and we’ll tell you when it ends
Cartridges are a wear part. Sand loses its edge. DE grids tear. We would rather tell you a cartridge has one more clean in it than sell you a set you didn’t need yet.
Step by step
What happens on the visit
Read the pressure
Before anything is opened.
Open and clean
Cartridge, DE grids or a sand backwash.
Inspect the inside
Pleats, grids or laterals, photographed.
Record the clean reading
The new starting pressure goes on the order.
New customers
Filter clean and a full water panel, $89.
The most useful hour anyone can spend on a pool that isn’t behaving: the filter opened, the clean pressure recorded, and all six readings explained.
- Filter opened, inspected and photographed, cartridge, DE or sand
- Clean starting pressure written down, so “ten over clean” finally means something
- All six readings taken at your pool, and what each one is doing to the others
- Equipment pad walk-round: pump, heater, valves, salt cell
- A written answer, including “nothing is wrong” if that’s the answer
One residential pool within the service area. Parts and repairs are quoted separately and never carried out without your reply.
What it costs
What decides the price
No surprise lines. Every job is quoted in writing, and nothing is done until you reply.
What we look at
- $89 for the filter clean with a full water panel
- Cartridges or grids, if needed, quoted separately
- Nothing replaced without your reply
How you’re quoted
In writing, with the reading or the pressure that made us recommend it. Approve all of it, some of it, or none of it.
A filter clean is also part of weekly service whenever the pressure calls for it.
Reviews
What customers say about our filter cleaning
4.9Average across 212 reviews on Google
Heater repair
Heater kept shutting off. It was the filter, not the heater. They cleaned it, showed us the pressure before and after, and the heater has run all winter since.
Tom and Alicia B.Orlando · 2 months ago on Google
Straight answers
Filter cleaning: questions
How often should a pool filter be cleaned?
On pressure, not on the calendar: when the gauge reads about ten psi over the filter’s clean starting pressure. That’s why we write the clean reading down.
Cartridge, DE or sand: which is best?
The one you have, looked after properly. Each works; each has its own wear parts. We’ll tell you honestly if yours is at the end of its life.
What does the $89 include?
The filter opened, inspected and cleaned; the clean pressure recorded; all six water readings; a walk round the equipment pad; and a written answer, including “nothing is wrong” if that’s the answer.
Get a straight answer about your pool.
Tell us what it is doing. If it can wait, we’ll say so, and if it can’t, we’ll say that too.