Pool Service in Stafford, TX

Settled streets, older backyards

Stafford fits 17,666 residents (as of 2020) and a large commercial base into about seven square miles, so its neighborhoods are compact and long established. Homes are predominantly single-story and date from the latter half of the 20th century. A backyard pool of that vintage has likely needed new plaster or new equipment at least once, and if it has not, it may be due.

So a visit here looks past the waterline. We check the coping and tile, the condition of the plaster, and how the pump, filter and heater are holding up. When equipment quits, the first job is finding out why, and only then do we talk about whether pool equipment repair or a replacement makes more sense.

Flat ground and streets built to hold water

The city's drainage page is refreshingly direct: Stafford's roadways are designed to hold water during large rainfall events so it stays out of buildings, and low spots by the curb, which the city calls birdbaths, are common because of the flat terrain and the makeup of local soils.

For a backyard pool, flat ground means storm runoff lingers. After a hard rain, expect diluted chemistry, a load of soil and organic matter, and a filter that clogs quickly. Testing and rebalancing soon after the storm passes is what keeps cloudy water from turning into a green pool.

What Harvey taught Stafford

In its November 2017 newsletter, the City of Stafford described Harvey as over 39 inches of rain, two tornadoes and very high winds. Some homes in Missouri City Estates (a Stafford neighborhood, despite the name) and parts of Vaccaro Manor took on water, and the Woodland West and Crestmont area was heavily damaged by tornadoes on the Saturday night of the storm. The city's 2017 to 2018 budget then funded drainage improvements in Missouri City Estates and in Vaccaro Manor section 4.

Wind damage and flooding call for different cleanups. Branches, shingles and fence pieces sink, jam skimmers and get drawn toward the pump, so we remove them by hand before restarting circulation. Floodwater brings silt and contamination that call for heavy chlorination and a careful rebalance. Our pool storm cleanup handles either kind of mess and finishes once the motor, filter tank and wiring have been checked.

Your water, measured at your pool

Fort Bend County WC&ID No. 2, headquartered on South Main in Stafford, serves parts of the city along with pieces of Missouri City, Houston and Sugar Land. Its supply mixes well water from the two aquifers under Fort Bend County with treated Brazos River water. The district's 2025 drinking water report gives no hardness figure, and not every Stafford address is on that system, so we do not guess. Calcium hardness, alkalinity, pH and stabilizer are measured on site, and the balance is set from those results.

Next door to our office

Sugar Land borders Stafford on the west, so getting to you is a short hop east on I-69, which crosses northwest Stafford, or along US-90A, which runs through town as Main Street. Whether you live near Stafford City Park or Gordon Fountain Lake Park, weekly pool service works the same way: the same person at your gate on a set weekday, all year.

Stafford neighborhoods we serve