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Why Pool Service is a Great Profession!
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2022
- You need to be a hard worker. This job is not for everyone. There is weather to deal with, wind, rain, heat, humidity, and snow. You are doing physical labor all day long. So, if you don't like hard work or working in 100-degree weather, this job might not be for you.
A book I read years ago helped me and it might help you also is called The Go-Getter: A Story That Tells You How to Be One by Peter B. Kyne. It was first published in 1921. This book will give you a good lesson on what it takes to be successful.
You can learn the trade by watching my UA-cam videos and by taking courses in your local area if they are offered. A fantastic way to make sure you are qualified and ready is to get CPO certified or Residential Certified through Bob Lowry’s course.
People skills are essential because you are running a service business and are providing specific “work” in return for payment. You are not selling a product; the product is you and the service you provide. So, you will make mistakes and customers will get mad and you will need to develop good people skills.
Good solid business skills are essential. You are in business to make money and you are not just out there “spinning your wheels.” So, you need to learn how to draw up a business plan which includes charging enough per pool so that you turn a profit. Service prices vary from region to region so it is up to you to set the best price for your area.
Getting your finances in order is a fantastic way to get your business finances in order. A great resource that I used successfully was the Dave Ramsey plan to become Debt Free myself. Learning how to run your finances is critical and if you can't manage your finances you certainly won't be able to manage your business finances.
Be an honest person. Being a person of Integrity takes a lot of effort. I was never taught as a youngster the value of being honest, so I had to learn it as an adult. If you lie to your customers and they find out, your reputation will be damaged. And in the service business, your reputation is everything.
So how do you get started in the business? You can get a truck, open an account at Leslie’s Pool Supplies and receive wholesale pricing. Or open an account at PoolCorp, the parent company of SCP and Superior Pool Products, and get your equipment and chemicals at wholesale pricing.
Then you can solicit accounts to service. This is a hard way to get started but is doable if you start part-time and build up a route while working at another job. Over time you can build up a good business.
You can also work for a pool company for a year or two and learn the trade. This is also a good method and you can learn a lot that will help you later when you are on your own.
You can also purchase a full or partial pool route from a Pool Service Broker. You purchase pools in your area. If you have the money to invest this is a fantastic way to do it. Look at it like purchasing a business. If you started building a pool route from scratch and already know the trade, this is a wonderful way to make your route bigger and bring in more income. In many cases buying pools makes sense.
You must get a good Liability Insurance Policy. This will protect you from lawsuits if you do make a mistake that damages the customer's property or person. For instance, you add water to the customer's pool and forget to turn it off. It floods their house and causes $30,000 in damage. They sue you for $30,000 and you are out of business. Instead, get a policy for less than $80 a month that will transfer the risk from you to the insurance company. It is just good business sense and you will sleep better at night.
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yeah the pool business is shifting and a lot of people are getting out of the business, selling their routes, retiring and moving out of cali to somewhere more affordable. but if you can push through these tough times, it can be a pretty good profession. just know your worth and walk away from anybody who tries to haggle down the price of your service. if they say you're too expensive, they're prob right. you're too expensive for them, so move on to someone who can afford you.
Yes. There's going to be a lot of opportunities out there.
28 years stayed solo, no employee headaches here in So Cal . enjoy the podcasts .
Chemical prices are skyrocketing but it's still a great business for me after 10yrs
25 years and going strong $110K yr
Just picked up my first account.
Awesome!
I’m working with a company right now but starting on my own have 9 pools right now but I work on those on saturdays
Ive been working for a pool shop here in Australia for 7 years now and get paid $75k per year as a level 3 service technician. I do equipment installs, light installs and general servicing. They let me drive the company vehicle as well as pay for fuel and maintenance. They also pay for my phone bill. I did think about starting my own business but the perks are so good right now. But do wish I was my own boss.
The company I work for currently has a flat rate of $200 a month for residential pools. At least, from what I remember being told, I’m sure there’s different variables that can affect the monthly rate, especially for a residential pool here in Texas though it’s not uncommon for a monthly rate to go that high
Sounds like Texas!
Seems like the Golden Years for the pool service industry are well behind us. You can only raise your fee modestly while expenses continue to climb. The cost of chemicals is at a historic high. So is the price of gas, used trucks and health insurance. Kind of hard to get excited about starting this business when net income is on the decline and recession/inflation is just ramping up
Agreed.
It seems we will have to push our way into higher end markets that will bear pricing double what it was a few years ago. A lot of people are at their upper limit for what they'd be willing to pay for weekly service.
New people in the business will undercut pricing just to get the job, and bleed off as they find out there's a lot more to maintaining a pool than just cleaning and throwing chems.
The attrition rate has already been around 30% and likely will rise as even experienced service people watch their margins dropping.
I have raised rates on weekly service but that just barely covers increases in costs. But I did increase pricing on filter cleans and all repair work.
yeah i had one customer stop service because she didn't want to pay the $10 price increase. prob the easiest pool i had on that route and in 1 months it was destroyed. she called us back to fix the mess and restart service. People don't understand that just because it looks easy doesn't mean it is. its because we know what we're doing 😤
Maybe not the Golden years buy still a solid industry. The landscape has changed tremendously for sure in the last 2 years, you are correct in that.
@@tylerjallred3080 I have no employees, been solo for many years. The companies that have multiple trucks are having hell trying to get service people in them and working.
I was a service manager at an outfit before. We ran about 250 pools a week. a few guys were really good, others would quit at the drop of a hat. If you had a pulse and a drivers license, I'd put you on a route with 2 days training. These days it's worse.
@@mayorb3366 Jesus 250 pools in a week
I agree with most of what was said but I’d have to disagree with it being easy to scale. In the last four years I have hired six or seven guys and they were all just terrible. Even after lots of training and handholding on my part they would lose accounts left and right. Nobody cares about your business as much as you do. If I could clone myself it would be easy to scale. But because it’s hard to find good employees and when you do finally find a good one they only stay a couple years till they start their own business which I’m all for, but just makes you have to hire again and start all over It’s a very difficult business to scale. If it were easy you would see large corporations in the industry, but they are nowhere to be found in the pool industry. They are just starting to get in it now it’ll be interesting to see how that plays out. I finally just said the heck with it and stopped hiring and slowly downsize. I now service 130 accounts and do all my own repairs. About half those are weekly and the other half or every other week. I gross right around 24 to 25,000 a month and net 16,000 a month. All in about 35 to 40 hours a week. It’s a great gig for me but as soon as I bring an employee on board it just feels like I’m spinning my wheels
Yes, the recent labor pool has been terrible. But I think that is across the board in every industry right now. NNP is trying to scale things on a giant cooperate basis and I think they are also running into labor quality issues as well.
Are you in the SGV (Los Angeles area) ? I will be looking for a job soon .
That has been my issue over the years, use to have 80+ accounts, 3 people working for me. Over the years, have dropped down 1 one guy working for me, does about 70% of the pools, I pay him very well. Np more than 30 regular clients. I do the other 30% and all of the maintenance and repair work, service calls
My question is, were or how to learn the pool equipment repairs??? Because In this industry there is no schooling like there is in other common trades.
The bog three, Pentair, Jandy and Hayward give training seminars around the country. Not hands on repair but at least a good overview for you.
After I clean my filter and add DE a lot of cloudy water returns back into the spa/pool. Am I doing something wrong? Are my filters ripped? My spa is always cloudy now. Thank you
leaky grids or vracked manifold..check
Have bad grids or manifold
I cannot find a pool guy. Last guy told me he started 11 new accounts in the last two weeks and has no more openings. Good problem I guess.
If he is like me, he does not want to get stretched to thin....
Would you recommend knocking on doors to get new clients? I am currently stuck at 35 clients and as the summer ends i’m on the fence on whether to spend my ad dollars now or in March/April of next year when the pool season is getting started.
Try putting mailers on the front doors of homes with a pool.
That is how I get some of mine and also customer referrals.
@@SPL how would you know which homes have pools ?
@@kiddsosa1311Google earth
@@kiddsosa1311 Google maps, satellite view. You can zoom in.