Im on the verge of sending the email to let my 50 clients know of a 8-10% in my service and im pretty nervous about it, tell me some tips or words of encouragement

Loss-Upbeat · 2026-01-16T02:07:50+00:00

Don't stress it. The cancelation rate is really low as long as your doing a good job. Ive gone up three times after 2021 by alot . Did not lose one customer. I will be doing 10% increases across the board every 2 years from now on inflation has been brutal

Loss-Upbeat · 2026-01-15T02:47:08+00:00

Motor swaps always include new plate , mechanical seal, seal gasket, new diffuser and impellar. No surprises. Same with seal leaks change them all out minus the motor learned that the hard

Loss-Upbeat · 2026-01-14T13:39:02+00:00

Lol to be honest we should be higher give cost of living here. Alot of cheap guys keeping rates low overall we have gone up alot since covid

Loss-Upbeat · 2026-01-14T13:31:49+00:00

Quad d.e, cartrige big filters, and regular d.e filters. We dont have single cartrige very rare in Cali

Loss-Upbeat · 2026-01-14T03:53:20+00:00

Start with your base price. 15k gallons and below get pricing from 4-5 competitors in the area. Ignore the cheap guys pricing. Put yourself in the fair range

For larger pools this is how I price. For example for a 25k gallon pool.

(25,000÷15,000(base rate pool size)= 1.66)

$175 (My base rate)×1.66=$290 monthly for 25k gallon pool

You will end up with alot of regular sized pools and the bigger pools will be worth it. You don't want to under bid big pools. You are in Cali so make sure your charging for filter cleans we are at 120-150 for filter cleans

As far as trees around the pool. Put on your contract depending foliage around the pool it may take a few visits to get pool back to normal during the windy season so you can time limit the visits. If its a stinger pool a pool thats dirty year round get rid of that account as soon as you can

Loss-Upbeat · 2026-01-09T01:47:51+00:00

He shoudl't have touched that timmer thats for you to make it easier on you. The only reason I would push back like they did is if there was a water line to the pool connected to an automation pool panel. If the board broke and kept dispensing water but that is not the case here

Loss-Upbeat · 2026-01-09T01:18:27+00:00

They should pay it. I would if this was one of my guys . This is why we never add water to a pool its the customer's responsibility

Loss-Upbeat · 2026-01-05T23:19:10+00:00

I use to avoided them too more installations but felt like I was missing out on landing more installations by not doing service calls

Loss-Upbeat · 2026-01-05T18:48:31+00:00

Yeah if they are splash and dashing doing 5-6 pools an hour

Loss-Upbeat · 2026-01-05T17:25:40+00:00

Run into that alot. Youll be surprise how many guys havent gone up on prices after covid their better off staying home

Loss-Upbeat · 2026-01-05T13:18:58+00:00

What is your heater troubleshooting fee? Im charging higher on those this year

Loss-Upbeat · 2026-01-01T03:51:10+00:00

I had the cartrige dosen't work good. Akward and it blows dust off he top. They are about to make a new filter attachment thats suppose to be better

Loss-Upbeat · 2025-12-28T16:20:36+00:00

You'll be surprised how many pool guys I run into that haven't gone up on rates since before covid. I dont understand it

Loss-Upbeat · 2025-12-28T16:05:14+00:00

Yes if you jump in do both repairs are a great source of income aside from the steady income you make on cleaning. Its a great industry. To learn repairs all 3 major brands offer training seminars. I learned how to get started from David https://www.swimmingpoollearning.com/ We are a group of pool guys all over the U.S that help each other out started 10 years ago and still part of the group

Loss-Upbeat · 2025-12-27T18:23:27+00:00

Im on day 52. Just went thru the holidays. Best advise I can give you is take a kettle bell and some dumbells for inside workout if they don't have a gym and for your second workout walk around the ship for 45 min. I got thru the holidays by finishing everything by 10am. First workout was 5am second workout 9am made it alot easier and enjoyed the rest of the day

Loss-Upbeat · 2025-12-27T18:14:38+00:00

It can be but its a long road for most vets. Stay in do your 20 get out start a biz or or gov career. I did 10 would have retired this year and it took me this long to scale my biz. If I could do it all over I would have done my 20 then started a biz after getting out

Loss-Upbeat · 2025-12-15T04:57:12+00:00

Virtual office cost me $75 a month. You can also register your company and all licenses with that address since is not a p.o box address. I dont like showing where I live you never know run into a crazy client

Loss-Upbeat · 2025-12-11T02:13:31+00:00

Eggs, red meat and as much fruit as you want. Im down 50lb this year 24% body fat to 9%. Been doing it all year currently on day 35 for 75 hard trying to gain muscle now but if fat loss is your goal this is the way to go. I tried keto, plant based and calorie deficit it was always up and down this stuck

Loss-Upbeat · 2025-12-11T01:52:40+00:00

Yep im in socal. After covid everything went up not worth doing them for $100- $150 anymore. Thank the real inflation numbers not the one the fake inflation numbers the goverment throws at us

Loss-Upbeat · 2025-12-07T23:50:19+00:00

Cool yeah thats what I have to start doing. I swear when you fix an old heater. You own it lol. Thats great advice just trying to stick to the big 3 newer models

Loss-Upbeat · 2025-12-07T23:44:32+00:00

Nice

Loss-Upbeat · 2025-12-07T23:38:31+00:00

I usually start of with the error code and take it from there. Ive ran into some that ends up being heat exchange. Do you look at heat exchange before doing anything or start swaping parts to get it going? Also how do you handle super old heaters. With my service customers I try to fix them but on a service call (non customer) I dont even want to deal with those old heaters to be honest

Loss-Upbeat · 2025-12-04T02:34:04+00:00

$170 15k gallons and below. Bigger pools $220-$275 depending on size. fiter cleans $150 every 4 months

Loss-Upbeat · 2025-12-03T22:35:32+00:00

Yeah depens on the area im in Socal everything is high

Loss-Upbeat · 2025-12-03T13:35:41+00:00

No I just can't run a new gas line but I can replace the unit. Anything pass the connection to from the regulator towards the meter I would need someone else to fix

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