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pool service blog
Every cost guide, repair walkthrough, and how-to we've written. The Adam's Pool and Spa Service blog for Long Beach homeowners and property managers.
The pool service blog Long Beach owners actually use. Cost guides, repair walkthroughs, diagnostic flows, and equipment comparisons written from active service-route experience since 2013. Browse the six categories below to find the answer to your specific pool question before you call.
Latest guides
Our newest pool care guides, published fresh from the service route.
What you'll find in our blog
The blog covers six categories of pool questions: pricing and cost guides, how-to and maintenance, diagnostic and troubleshooting, repair guides, decisions and comparisons, and in-ground spa care. Every guide is written by the team that runs the service truck. Read about the role of swimming pool service on Wikipedia for category context.
Pricing and cost guides
Six cost questions Long Beach pool owners ask before they call. Real ranges, no bait pricing.
Weekly pool service cost
What weekly pool service costs in Long Beach, what drives the number up or down, and how to read a quote without surprises.
Pool resurfacing cost
Pebble, plaster, and quartz refinish ranges with the LA-area labor and material lines that move the bid.
In-ground pool cost
What a new in-ground pool runs in Long Beach in 2026, with shell type, equipment, and decking broken out.
In-ground spa cost
Built-in spa pricing for stand-alone spas, spa additions, and spillover spa combos on existing pools.
Pool service vs DIY cost
The real math on weekly service versus doing it yourself, including chemicals, gear, and a typical bad-Saturday scenario.
Questions to ask pool cleaners
The questions every Long Beach owner should ask a pool cleaner before signing, so you don't end up calling a second company in six months.
How-to and maintenance guides
Eight how-to guides covering chemistry, filtration, and seasonal pool care for Long Beach climate.
How to lower pH in a pool
Step-by-step on muriatic acid dosing, alkalinity, and the order to fix when pH is sitting above 7.8.
Pool chlorine levels guide
Free chlorine, total chlorine, and cyanuric acid targets for residential pools, plus what each reading actually tells you.
Seasonal pool care calendar
A month-by-month routine for warm-climate pools and a separate cold-climate quick reference.
Important pool cleaning tips for owners
The cleaning habits that prevent 80% of weekly callbacks, written for homeowners who handle their own pool.
10 pool maintenance mistakes
Ten avoidable maintenance errors we see on the service route, with fixes for each.
Pool cleaning services guide
What a real cleaning route looks like, how often the filter gets touched, and what a tech checks each visit.
Pool closing service guide
When and how to close a pool in Long Beach, even though the season barely ends here.
What weekly pool service includes
The 30 to 45 minute weekly visit, line by line: skim, brush, vacuum, test, dose, equipment check.
Diagnostic guides
Four troubleshooting guides for the symptoms that send Long Beach owners to Google at 6pm on a Sunday.
Why is my pool green?
Algae triage from light-green bloom to dark-green wall stain, with the triple-shock recovery flow.
Why is my pool cloudy?
The chemistry-versus-filter decision tree for cloudy water, plus when a clarifier helps and when it doesn't.
Common pool problems
The pillar guide. Fourteen problems across chemistry, filtration, plumbing, and equipment, with diagnosis and fix paths.
Most common pool repairs
The repairs we run most often on Long Beach pools, ranked by frequency with rough labor and part ranges.
Repair guides
Five equipment-specific repair guides covering pumps, motors, heaters, filters, and the full repair umbrella.
Pool pump repair guide
Pump diagnostics from prime loss to seized bearings, with the repair-or-replace cost crossover.
Pool motor repair guide
Motor capacitor failures, bearing noise, and amp-draw checks before you replace the whole motor.
Pool heater repair guide
Gas heater ignition, flow-switch faults, and heat-exchanger fouling on Jandy and Pentair units.
Pool filter repair guide
DE, sand, and cartridge filter problems, with the repair path for each type and when to swap media.
Pool repair guide
The umbrella repair guide covering equipment, plumbing, structural, and chemistry repairs in one map.
Decisions and comparisons
Six decision guides for the questions owners ask when something already broke or wore out.
Repair vs replace a pool pump
The age, cost, and efficiency thresholds where a new pump beats a repair on a Long Beach pool.
Repair vs replace a pool heater
When a heater repair makes sense and when a new unit is the only honest answer.
Gas vs electric pool heater
Side-by-side on cost, climb time, and total cost of ownership for SoCal residential pools.
Variable vs single-speed pool pump
Energy use, runtime, and rebate math on variable-speed pumps versus the older single-speed units.
Sand vs cartridge pool filter
How sand and cartridge filters compare on water clarity, run cost, and replacement cadence.
How to choose a pool service company
The qualifying questions, license checks, and red flags before you commit to a weekly service contract.
In-ground spa guides
In-ground spa and built-in spa guides. Adams services in-ground spas only, not portable hot tubs or above-ground units.
In-ground spa buyer's guide
Layout choices, equipment, and finish options for a new in-ground spa or a spa addition to an existing pool.
Spa repair service guide
What a built-in spa service visit includes, plus the chemistry differences from a swimming pool.
In-ground spa cost
The cost lens on in-ground spas: stand-alone build, spa-add to existing pool, and full pool-spa combos.
Schedule service with Adam's Pool and Spa Service
Need service, not just info? Adam's Pool and Spa Service runs weekly maintenance, equipment repair, and full construction across Long Beach and LA County. Call the office or book online.
Service area
Where we serve in Long Beach and LA County
Adam's Pool and Spa Service serves Long Beach and the surrounding LA County coast. Service radius runs roughly 25 miles from 910 E 72nd Street.
Every blog above is written from the same service truck that runs these neighborhoods every week. The advice matches the pools we actually touch.
Primary service areas: Long Beach · Belmont Shore · Naples Island · Bixby Knolls · Signal Hill · Lakewood
Extended service areas: Bellflower · Downey · Cypress · Rossmoor · Seal Beach · Los Alamitos
About the author
Adam Aguirre founded Adam's Pool and Spa Service in 2013 after a two-year apprenticeship in pool equipment repair, and now holds CA LIC# 1077901 (C-53). He is Jandy Certified, a Pentair Expert Installer, and an NPT Lifetime-Warranty Partner with 15 years of hands-on Long Beach pool and in-ground spa service.
Every guide on this blog is sourced from active service-route experience. Adam personally reviews each topic so the cost ranges, diagnostic flows, and repair paths match what we run on real Long Beach pools. Read more about our team.
