Water chemistry and equipment operation, from $72 per visit plus chemicals — with a written sheet after every visit. Serving Twinsburg, Solon, Hudson and the Route 91 corridor.
From $72 per visit plus chemicals. Every visit, weekly or biweekly:
We test, then dose and balance to spec — chlorinate to the correct residual, or manage bromine levels on a pool that brominates.
As needed, skimmer and pump.
As needed.
The filter as needed.
Of cartridge elements, up to once a month.
Pump, filter, heater, automation, sanitiser, and the electrical bond at each lug.
And leave it with you.
What is not included: vacuuming, brushing or skimming the pool. This is a chemistry and equipment service — see pool maintenance for who that suits and why the scope is drawn there. Most of our service customers have a robotic cleaner handling the surfaces.
A pool equipment pad with pump, filter and heater
We do not run an identical panel on every pool every week, and it is worth explaining why rather than presenting a checklist.
Different pools need different things. A pool on well water has metal and hardness concerns a municipal-supply pool does not. A brominated pool is managed differently from a chlorine pool. A salt system has its own variables. Testing everything everywhere every week looks thorough and mostly charges for readings nobody acts on.
So we test what your pool needs, based on what it is, what it read last visit, and what we are looking at when we arrive.
Two things we are particular about:
We titrate rather than guess. A drop-based titrate test resolves an actual number. A test-strip gives a colour band, and at the margins — which is exactly where a decision gets made — that band is too wide to act on. Strips are fine for a homeowner's spot check between visits. They are not what a paid service should run on.
Where metals are present, we hold them. Iron and copper in fill water, common on well supply around here, stain a liner or a plaster surface permanently once they come out of solution. A sequesterant or chelateing agent keeps them dissolved so they leave with the backwash instead of marking the pool.
Everything tested goes on your sheet with what it read.
Every customer gets a written record after every visit: what was tested, what was done, and anything we noticed.
It sounds administrative. It is the most useful thing on this page:
A sequence beats a snapshot. One reading tells you today. Five readings moving in one direction tell you a developing problem — a scale-forming trend, a sanitiser demand that is climbing, a filter losing ground.
It is evidence when equipment fails. Manufacturers ask about water chemistry when an exchanger or a seal fails, because bad chemistry is the leading cause and the one they can decline a claim over. A documented history of balanced water is worth having before you need it.
You see what the technician saw. A pump starting to cavitate or a filter losing pressure is written down rather than mentioned to whoever happened to be home.
Most of our service customers are not there when we visit. The sheet is how a service you never see still tells you something.
For what the pool actually takes.
Demand is not constant and not predictable — a hot week with heavy use consumes sanitiser fast, a cool covered week barely touches it, and rain shifts alkalinity. Averaging all of that into a flat rate means most customers subsidise the few with the highest demand.
So the visit is $72 and the chemicals are what they are.
A completed pool service sheet on the equipment pad
Included: backwashing as needed, and on-site rinsing or swapping of cartridge elements up to once a month.
Not included: a proper offsite clean at $125 — soaking in cleaning solution and pressure washing, which is what actually recovers flow on a loaded cartridge. Hosing a cartridge moves surface debris and leaves the body oils and fine particulate causing the pressure rise, and oils are not water-soluble.
See pool filter repair.
“We have used M&G for many years, they are always knowledgeable and accommodating. The professionalism is not something you find in the pool industry. Highly recommend for any pool needs.”
That is exactly what this service is.
Both are available, and the right answer depends on bather load, tree cover, whether the pool is heated and whether it is covered when not in use.
A heated pool in heavy use under trees needs weekly attention. A covered pool used at weekends often does not. See weekly pool service for how that decision is actually made.
A drop-based titration test on a pool water sample
Equipment rarely fails without warning — it drifts. Pressure creeps up, a seal starts to weep, priming takes longer, a heater cycles more than it used to.
Somebody standing at your equipment pad every week or fortnight sees that drift. Somebody called out after a failure sees the failure. That difference is a planned repair in May instead of a breakdown on a holiday weekend — see pool equipment repair, where a service call is $150.
It also makes the seasonal visits better. A pool we service all summer gets closed from a known chemistry position rather than a guess.
Rust along the base of pool equipment standing on a wet pad
A quarter of our work is commercial, and it is a different service with different obligations — public pool licensing and inspection in Ohio sits with the local health district, and the record-keeping expectations are not those of a back garden. See commercial pool maintenance.
Service records kept for a shared pool
M & G Pools services in-ground pools exclusively. We do not service, repair or supply equipment for above-ground pools, and we do not service hot tubs or spas.
From $72 per visit plus chemicals. Weekly and biweekly schedules are available, and every visit comes with a written sheet recording what was tested, what was done and anything we noticed.
It varies by pool, deliberately. A well-water pool has metal and hardness concerns a municipal-supply pool does not, a bromine pool is managed differently from a chlorine one, and a salt system has its own variables. We test what your pool needs based on what it is and what it read last visit — using drop-based titration rather than test strips, because at the margin where decisions get made a strip's colour band is too wide to act on.
No. It covers water chemistry, basket emptying, filter backwashing, robotic cleaner restarts and an equipment operation check. We do not vacuum, brush or skim pools — most of our service customers have a robotic cleaner handling the surfaces. Netting and vacuuming to waste are included inside an opening or closing package.
Because demand is not predictable. A hot week with heavy use consumes sanitiser fast, a cool covered week barely touches it, and rain shifts alkalinity. Averaging that into a flat rate would mean most customers subsidising the few with the highest demand — so you pay for what goes in the pool.
No, and most customers are not. We need access to the pool and the equipment pad — a gate code, a key or an unlatched side gate — and the written sheet tells you what happened while you were out.
