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You can’t see bacteria. You can’t smell pH imbalance. And by the time your eyes burn or your pump starts corroding, you’re already dealing with a problem that could’ve been caught weeks ago.
Water testing isn’t about being paranoid. It’s about knowing what’s happening before it becomes expensive or unsafe. When your water’s balanced, chlorine works the way it should. Equipment lasts longer. Your family swims without irritation.
Most pool owners in Crawley test their water once a month, if that. But South Georgia heat, afternoon storms, and heavy use can throw off your chemistry in days. Professional pool water testing catches those shifts early—before algae blooms, before scaling builds up, before your weekend plans get derailed by green water.
You get a full printout of what’s in your water and what it needs. No sales pitch. No upselling chemicals you don’t need. Just accurate results and clear next steps.
We’ve been serving families across South Georgia since 2014, built on over three decades of hands-on pool construction and maintenance experience. We’re not a franchise. We’re local, licensed, and we’ve seen what happens when water chemistry gets ignored.
Crawley pool owners deal with specific challenges—high calcium in well water, rapid evaporation during summer, pollen that throws off alkalinity in spring. We account for those factors when we test your water because we’ve been working with them for years.
We offer free water testing because we’d rather you catch problems early than call us for an emergency fix later. It takes two to three minutes. You leave with a printed analysis and honest recommendations.
Grab a clean plastic bottle—a water bottle works fine. Reach down about elbow-deep in your pool, away from returns or skimmers, and fill it up. Cap it, bring it to us.
We run your sample through laboratory-grade testing equipment. Not test strips. Not color-matching kits. Actual analysis that measures free chlorine, pH, alkalinity, calcium hardness, cyanuric acid, and more.
In a few minutes, you get a full printout showing current levels and exactly where they should be. We’ll walk through what’s off and what you need to fix it. If your water’s good, we’ll tell you that too.
No appointment needed. No cost. No pressure to buy anything. Just accurate residential water test results and straightforward guidance on what to do next.
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Free chlorine tells us if your sanitizer is actually working or just sitting there doing nothing. pH affects everything—too low and your water’s corrosive, too high and chlorine stops killing bacteria. Total alkalinity buffers pH swings. Calcium hardness prevents scaling or etching.
Cyanuric acid protects chlorine from sunlight but too much locks it up. Combined chlorine means you’ve got chloramines—that’s the stuff that actually causes red eyes and the “chlorine smell” people complain about.
In Crawley, we see high calcium from well water, low chlorine from heavy afternoon sun, and pH spikes after big rainstorms. A water analysis service catches these patterns before they damage your pool or make someone sick.
Most pool owners spend three hours every weekend testing and adjusting chemicals. You’re still guessing with home kits. Professional pool water testing removes the guesswork and gives you time back.
This service is completely free. Always has been. We test your water because it’s the right way to start any maintenance plan—and because we’d rather you have accurate information than waste money fixing the wrong problem.
Every two weeks during swim season, monthly in the off-season. That’s the baseline.
If you’re using your pool heavily—kids, parties, daily swimming—test weekly. After a big rainstorm that dumps debris and dilutes chemicals, test within a day or two. If your water looks off or you’re adding chemicals without seeing results, test immediately.
Home test strips are fine for a quick check between professional tests, but they’re not accurate enough to catch early problems. pH might read “fine” on a strip while actually being high enough to waste your chlorine. Free chlorine might show acceptable when combined chlorine is creeping up. You won’t know until someone’s eyes are burning.
Professional water testing in Crawley accounts for local factors—well water chemistry, seasonal pollen, heat—that generic test kits ignore. Bring us a sample every couple weeks and you’ll catch problems while they’re still cheap and easy to fix.
Free chlorine is what’s actively sanitizing your pool. It’s available to kill bacteria, algae, and anything else that shouldn’t be in your water. This is the number that matters for safety.
Total chlorine includes free chlorine plus combined chlorine (chloramines). Chloramines form when chlorine bonds with contaminants—sweat, oils, urine, sunscreen. They don’t sanitize. They just sit there causing eye irritation, skin rashes, and that strong “pool smell” people think means too much chlorine. It actually means not enough free chlorine.
When combined chlorine gets above 0.2 ppm, you need to shock your pool to break those bonds and restore free chlorine. Most home test kits don’t measure this. They show total chlorine and you assume everything’s fine while your water’s barely sanitizing.
Our water analysis service measures both. If your free chlorine is low but total is normal, we know you’ve got a chloramine problem. Fix it now and you avoid bigger issues later.
You can. They’re better than nothing. But they’re not accurate enough to prevent problems.
Test strips give you a range—pH looks “around 7.5” or chlorine is “somewhere between 1 and 3.” That’s not precise enough when the difference between 7.4 and 7.8 pH determines whether your chlorine works efficiently or gets wasted. A half-point off on pH can cost you extra chemicals and still leave your water unbalanced.
Strips also degrade. Leave the bottle open, store them in a hot garage, or use them past expiration and your results are meaningless. You’re making decisions based on bad information.
Professional testing uses calibrated equipment that measures exact levels—7.6 pH, 2.3 ppm free chlorine, 105 ppm calcium hardness. You get a printed report showing current levels, ideal ranges, and exactly what to adjust. No guessing. No color-matching in bad light.
Use strips between professional tests if you want. But get accurate water quality testing every couple weeks so you’re working with real data.
Clear water doesn’t mean safe water. You can’t see pH imbalance. You can’t see bacteria until it’s multiplied enough to cloud the water. You can’t see high calcium until it’s already scaling your tile.
Pools can look perfect and still have problems brewing. Low sanitizer leaves you vulnerable to contamination. High pH wastes chlorine and lets algae get a foothold. Calcium that’s too low etches plaster. Too high and it scales equipment.
By the time you see green water, you’re dealing with a full algae bloom that takes days and extra chemicals to clear. By the time you notice scaling, it’s already damaged surfaces. By the time someone complains about burning eyes, chloramines have been building for weeks.
Regular residential water test catches these issues early. Your water stays balanced, your equipment lasts longer, and you’re not scrambling to fix problems that could’ve been prevented. Clear water is the goal—professional testing is how you keep it that way.
We walk you through exactly what needs fixing and in what order. Chemistry has a sequence—you can’t just dump everything in at once.
Usually you’ll adjust alkalinity first because it stabilizes pH. Then pH, because nothing else works right until pH is balanced. Then chlorine, calcium, and cyanuric acid as needed. We’ll tell you what to add, how much, and when to add the next chemical.
If your water’s severely out of balance—pH below 7.0, chlorine near zero, calcium through the roof—we’ll recommend whether you can fix it or if you need to partially drain and refill. Sometimes starting fresh is faster and cheaper than trying to correct extreme imbalances.
Most issues we see in Crawley aren’t that severe. Your pH is a bit high, chlorine’s low, alkalinity needs a bump. Fixable in a day or two with the right products. We’ll give you the printout, explain what’s happening, and send you home with a clear plan. Come back in a week or two and we’ll test again to make sure everything’s where it should be.
No charge. Ever. Bring us a sample, we test it, you get results. That’s it.
We’ve offered free water testing since we opened because it’s the foundation of proper pool maintenance. You can’t fix what you don’t measure. Charging for testing just discourages people from coming in regularly, which means they’re flying blind until something goes wrong.
You’re not obligated to buy chemicals from us. You’re not signing up for a service plan. We’re not going to upsell you on products you don’t need. We test your water, print the results, explain what they mean, and answer your questions.
If you want to buy the chemicals to fix it yourself, great. If you’d rather have us handle maintenance, we can talk about that. If you just want the information and you’ll figure out the rest on your own, that’s fine too.
Free means free. No catches. It’s how we think pool water analysis should work in Crawley—accurate, accessible, and honest.
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