How do I know if my Manchaca pool is on a community well or City of Austin water?
Look at who sends the water bill. If the house came with no clear answer, our first-visit test settles it: well water out here reads hard to very hard with high dissolved solids, city water reads moderately hard. Either way, the program is built from that reading, not a guess.
Our pool was built in the early 90s and most of the equipment is original. Will you still take it on?
Yes. Old equipment that works is not a problem; old equipment nobody listens to is. We service the pool as it is, watch pressure and listen to the pump weekly, and repair what's worth repairing. When a part fails and the replacement math wins, we tell you plainly, and nobody gets talked into a new pad first.
Do you cover the Village of Bear Creek and Mountain City too?
Yes. Bear Creek, off FM 1626 and Bear Creek Road with a 78737 address, and Mountain City, the one-acre-lot village west of I-35 near Buda in 78610, ride the same weekly routes as Manchaca proper. Most of those lots are on private wells, so they get the well-fill chemistry program from the first visit.
Our kids swim every day. Why does the pool go cloudy by Friday?
Because bather load is a chemical demand, not just dirt. Sweat and sunscreen tie chlorine up as combined chlorine, and once free chlorine can't keep up the water dulls. We test combined chlorine weekly, superchlorinate when it climbs, hold free chlorine toward the top of range in summer, and run the filter long enough to clear what they stir up.
The water level drops faster than it used to. Evaporation or a leak?
Evaporation here is real, well over 50 inches a year off a pool surface, but it's steady. A drop that outpaces it, or a wet spot at the pad, points elsewhere. Toward I-35, clay soil shifting in drought stresses plumbing. We check the pad for leaks and repair what's there; if the loss is beyond the pad, we say so rather than guess.
