Cedar Hollow, since 1981
Ray Pendleford started with one truck and eleven pools in Cedar Hollow. Today he and his daughter Jess run four routes across the Linden valley, and your technician is the same person every week.
Weekly full service $165 a month, chemicals included. No contract, cancel with one week’s notice.
379 pools, 12 neighbourhoods, 4 technicians, one family.
Is your street on a route?Probably. Pick your neighbourhood to see which day we are there, who you would get, and what your neighbours have signed up for.
Cedar Hollow, on the route since 1981
We come on Mondays.
Your technician
Ray Pendleford
Pools on this route
41 of your neighbours
Most neighbours here are on weekly full service, $165 a month.
Where it started. Ray still does this route himself, first stop 7:30 on Alder Lane.
Sample route data for this concept site.
Chemicals are in the price on every plan. No contracts, no fuel surcharges, and the price only changes once a year, in writing, in January.
What most of our customers are on
$165a month
For smaller pools and tidy yards
$110a month
You skim, we look after the water
$95a month
Prices for pools up to 30,000 gallons. Larger pools and spas are quoted after the first visit. Repairs and parts are always quoted before we do the work.
Route customers get first pick of opening and closing dates. Everyone else is welcome too, and a green pool gets seen within two days, route or no route.
$245
Cover off, cleaned and folded, lines and equipment back on, first chemical treatment and a start-up check of the pump and heater. Swimmable within the week.
$275
Water lowered, lines blown out and plugged, winter chemicals in, equipment drained and the cover fitted. Book by Labor Day to get your first pick of dates.
from $350
Shock, floc, vacuum to waste and filter clean, over two or three visits. We quote the full price after one look, and it is usually blue in four days.
Openings run from mid April, closings from the week after Labor Day.
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Ray grew up in Cedar Hollow and started cleaning his neighbours’ pools the summer he turned twenty five. Jess rode along in the truck as a kid, and came back after college to make the business a bit less paper and a bit more phone.
Between them they know most of the pumps in the valley by sound. When you call, one of them answers.
Ray Pendleford buys a used pickup, a pole and a test kit, and signs up eleven pools in Cedar Hollow.
A second truck and the Willow Bend route. Ray’s wife Carol takes over the phone and the books.
Jess joins after college, earns her pool operator certification and takes the Stonegate route.
Jess runs the office and the schedule, and every visit now ends with a note to your phone.
Four technicians, twelve neighbourhoods and 379 pools. Ray still does Mondays.
Each route belongs to one person. If they are off sick or on holiday, one of the other three covers, and your note tells you who came.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
Has cleaned some of these pools for three owners in a row. Will tell you what your pump is going to do before it does it.
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
Certified pool operator, keeps the schedule, and answers the phone when she is not on a route. Ray’s daughter.
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday
Our pump and heater man. If your equipment is making a noise, Marco has usually heard it before.
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
Saltwater pools and the new Lakeview route. Sends the most detailed service notes on the team.
About 35 minutes at your pool on weekly full service. The gate gets latched behind us, every time.
Leaves and bugs off the top, skimmer and pump baskets emptied so the water keeps moving.
Walls, steps and the waterline tile brushed every visit, before anything has a chance to grow.
Manual vacuum where the automatic cleaner misses, corners and steps included.
Chlorine, pH, alkalinity and stabiliser tested at the pool and dosed on the spot.
Filter pressure, pump sound, heater and timer. Backwash when the gauge says so.
Readings, what we added, a photo of the pool and anything we think you should know.
Sample reviews, for illustration
“Ray cleaned this pool for the people we bought the house from, and their parents before that. He knew where the leak in the return line was before we did.”
“Dana sends a photo every Friday before we are home from work. Two summers now and the water has not been anything but blue.”
“We let it go green over a long trip. Jess came out the next morning, gave us one price, and the kids were swimming by Saturday.”
Tell us where the pool is. Jess calls you back the same working day with your service day, your technician and a first visit date.
(555) 014-1981, office open Monday to Friday, 7:30 to 4:30
Fully insured. Certified pool operators on staff. Lic. #000000 (sample).