We are a pool repair company in Sarasota, and repair is the whole business. Somebody calls because something has stopped working or started leaking, we go and find out what it is, and we fix it. That is the entire model.

It is a deliberately narrow way to run a pool company, and it is worth explaining what it buys you.

What a repair-only company gets you

Your job is the job. A repair booked with us is not squeezed into a cleaning route, so the diagnostic visit happens when we said it would and the person who arrives has the day to spend on your pool rather than forty minutes between stops.

It also means the repair is the end of it. There is no contract to sign afterwards and nothing else to sell you, which is a large part of why we are comfortable telling people their equipment has a few more years in it.

The trade-off is honest: we are not the people to call about green water or a chlorine problem. If that is what you need, say so and we will point you at someone who does it well.

What we actually do

Everything between the water and the equipment pad. Leak detection and repair. Pumps, motors, filters and the plumbing that joins them. Gas heaters and heat pumps. Salt systems, controllers and valve actuators. Pool lights and their niches. Waterline tile and coping. Interior finishes, from a patch through to a full resurface in plaster, quartz or pebble.

Concrete and gunite pools mostly, but also fiberglass and vinyl-liner, which behave differently and need different hands. Residential pools, HOA and condo pools, and the occasional small commercial pool where the equipment is domestic in scale.

How a job runs, start to finish

You call or send the form and describe the symptom. That first conversation is worth more than people expect, a pump that hums, a pump that screams and a pump that will not prime are three different jobs, and knowing which it is tells us what to bring.

We come out and test. Not look, test: pressure on the plumbing, a meter on the electrics, dye at the suspected leak, a gauge on the filter. The difference between a diagnosis and a guess is whether somebody put an instrument on it, and a guess is how a working pump ends up replaced.

Then you get a written price before anything is taken apart. If the repair turns out to be the wrong call financially, a six-hundred-dollar fix on a pump worth replacing, we say so and quote both, and you decide.

When the work is done we run the system with you standing there and show you that it does what it is supposed to. Then we clean the pad and take our trash with us.

What Florida does to a pool

There is no off-season here, which is the single fact behind most of what we see. A pool in Sarasota runs twelve months a year, so a pump accumulates hours at twice the rate of the same pump in a state with a real winter, and plaster takes twice the swimming season.

Then the specifics. Salt air corrodes anything metal within a mile or two of the Gulf, which is why equipment on Siesta Key and Longboat gives fewer years than identical equipment in Fruitville. Hard fill water leaves calcium inside heat exchangers and on salt cells, which is the first thing we check on a heater call out toward North Port. The water table sits high enough across much of the county that draining a pool has to be planned rather than just done. And summer storms put debris through skimmers and into impellers at a rate that keeps the basket lids coming off all season.

None of that is exotic. It is just particular, and knowing it is the difference between finding a fault in an hour and chasing it for a day.

Things we will not do

Quote a repair over the phone. We will tell you what a symptom usually means and roughly what that band of work costs. We will not put a number on your pool before someone has looked at it.
Condemn equipment we have not tested. If we cannot show you the reading that says a part has failed, we have not finished diagnosing it.
Drain a pool because it is convenient. Draining is a real risk here. If the job can be done with water in the pool, it gets done with water in the pool.
Start work without a written price. Including the awkward ones, where the honest answer is that this is going to be expensive.
Sell you a maintenance contract. We do not have one.

Where we work

Sarasota and Sarasota County first: the city, Siesta Key, Lido, Bird Key, Longboat, Palmer Ranch, Gulf Gate, Bee Ridge and Fruitville. South through Osprey and Nokomis to Venice and North Port. North over the county line into Lakewood Ranch and Bradenton.

There is no trip charge inside that area and no surcharge for the far edges of it. If you are just outside and the job is a real one, call and ask, the honest answer is sometimes yes.

Who is behind it

One owner has run the business since it opened in 2015 and still works on the jobs in person, as a Sarasota resident for more than forty years, so the county's older neighborhoods, newer subdivisions and barrier-island homes are all familiar ground rather than addresses on a map.

The crew is factory-trained by Pentair and Hayward, which matters most on variable-speed pumps and automation panels, where a wrong setting costs more than the part. Training on two brands is not loyalty to them, though: Jandy, AquaCal and Built Right equipment gets the same attention, and we will tell you when the unit you already own is the sensible one to keep.

Before anything is recommended, the fault gets a proper diagnosis, and the quote covers the repair that reading points to, not a list of extras. Plenty of calls end with a small part and a working pump.

Licensing and insurance

We hold a Florida certified pool and spa contractor license, number CPC1458889, and carry the insurance this work calls for. Ask for the certificate before work starts and you will get it. If an HOA or condo association needs one on file, tell us who to send it to.

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