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You’re tired of dumping chemicals into your pool and hoping it works. The test strips give you different results every time. The water looks fine one day, cloudy the next, and you have no idea why.
Here’s what changes when you get accurate water testing. You know exactly what your pool needs and when it needs it. No more trips to the pool store every weekend asking someone to interpret your test results. No more buying chemicals you don’t need because the balance was off to begin with.
Your equipment lasts longer because the water chemistry isn’t corroding your pump or caking up your filter. Your family swims without red eyes or itchy skin. And you stop wasting money on fixes that don’t fix anything because now you’re working with real data, not guesswork.
We’ve been building and maintaining pools in Douglas County for over 30 years. We’ve seen every water chemistry problem that exists in this area—from the naturally high mineral content in Huffer groundwater to the algae blooms that hit when Georgia humidity spikes in July.
We offer professional pool water testing completely free because we know it’s the foundation of everything else. If your water isn’t balanced, nothing else matters. Your pool won’t stay clean, your chemicals won’t work right, and your equipment will break down faster than it should.
We’re not trying to sell you a service contract or push products you don’t need. We test your water, give you a printout of exactly what’s happening, and tell you what to do about it. That’s it.
Bring us a water sample from your pool. Use a clean container and pull the sample from about elbow-deep, away from the return jets. That gives us the most accurate read of what’s actually happening in your water.
We run your sample through our LaMotte Waterlink Spin Disk system. It’s the same technology used in chemistry labs and medical testing facilities. It tests for pH, chlorine levels, alkalinity, calcium hardness, and other factors that affect how your water looks, feels, and functions.
The whole process takes two to three minutes. You get a full printout showing where each level currently sits and where it should be. We walk you through what the numbers mean and what you need to add, remove, or adjust. If something’s off, we explain why it’s off and how to fix it so it stays fixed.
This isn’t a sales pitch. It’s a diagnostic. You leave knowing exactly what your pool needs.
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We test the levels that actually affect your pool’s safety and longevity. pH tells us if your water is acidic or basic—too low and it eats away at your equipment and burns skin, too high and your chlorine stops working. The ideal range is 7.2 to 7.8, and in Huffer’s water conditions, that can shift fast.
Chlorine levels show whether your water can kill bacteria and algae. You need between 1 and 3 parts per million to keep water safe. Too little and you’re swimming in a petri dish. Too much and you’re wasting money and irritating eyes.
We also check alkalinity, which stabilizes your pH, and calcium hardness, which prevents your water from pulling minerals out of your pool surface and equipment. Georgia water tends to run high in certain minerals, so this is especially important in Douglas County. Low calcium leads to etching and staining that’s expensive to reverse.
Every parameter we test affects something else. That’s why home test kits miss so much—they don’t give you the full picture, and they’re not accurate enough to catch problems before they get expensive.
At minimum, test your water every two weeks during swim season. If your pool gets heavy use, if you’ve had a lot of rain, or if you’re dealing with algae or cloudy water, test it weekly.
Georgia’s climate makes water chemistry tricky. Heat, humidity, and afternoon storms all throw your balance off. What was perfect on Monday can be a mess by Friday, especially in summer.
The testing itself is free and takes three minutes, so there’s no reason not to check in regularly. Catching an imbalance early means you’re adjusting with ounces, not pounds, of chemicals. That saves you money and keeps your pool swimmable instead of shut down for days while you try to fix a problem that got out of hand.
Test strips are better than nothing, but they’re not accurate enough to prevent problems. The color matching is subjective, the ranges are broad, and they don’t test for everything that matters.
Our lab-grade system tests multiple parameters with precision you can’t get from a strip. It catches issues like low calcium hardness or high cyanuric acid that strips either miss completely or give you such a vague reading that you can’t act on it.
If you’re using strips and your water still looks off, or you’re adding chemicals but nothing’s improving, that’s usually because the data you’re working with isn’t accurate. You’re making decisions based on bad information. Professional water testing fixes that. You get real numbers, and real numbers lead to real solutions.
We walk you through it in order of priority. Some adjustments need to happen before others, or they won’t work. For example, if your pH is way off, your chlorine won’t be effective no matter how much you add.
We’ve dealt with every version of unbalanced water—green pools, black pools, cloudy pools that won’t clear no matter what you throw at them. There’s always a fix, and it always starts with understanding what’s actually wrong, not just guessing.
You’ll leave with a clear plan: do this first, wait this long, then do this next. We don’t hand you a printout and walk away. We make sure you understand what you’re fixing and why, so you’re not back next week with the same problem because something was done out of order.
It’s actually free. No purchase required, no service contract, no catch. Bring in a water sample and we’ll test it while you wait.
We offer free water quality testing because it’s the right way to start any conversation about pool maintenance. If you don’t know what’s in your water, you can’t make good decisions about it. We’d rather give you accurate information than have you waste money on chemicals that don’t work or damage your pool trying to fix a problem you didn’t properly diagnose.
Some customers just get their water tested and handle everything themselves. Others realize they’d rather have us manage it. Either way, the testing is free and always will be. We’ve been doing it this way for 30 years in Douglas County.
Absolutely. Low pH creates acidic water that corrodes metal parts, eats away at seals, and pits your pool’s surface. High pH causes scaling that clogs your filter, builds up in your heater, and reduces water flow through your system.
Low calcium hardness is even worse. Your water will pull calcium from anywhere it can find it—your plaster, your grout, your tile. That leads to etching, staining, and surface damage that costs thousands to repair. Equipment repairs and surface refinishing are almost always more expensive than the chemicals needed to prevent the damage in the first place.
In Huffer, we see this all the time. Pool owners think their water looks fine, so they don’t test it. Two years later, their pump’s shot, their heater’s scaled up, and their plaster is pitted. A $10 bag of calcium hardness increaser would’ve prevented all of it. That’s why regular testing matters.
Fix it anyway. Clear water doesn’t mean safe water or balanced water. You can have perfect clarity and still have pH levels that are corroding your equipment or chlorine levels too low to kill bacteria.
Water quality issues don’t always show up visually until they’re serious. By the time your water looks bad, the problem’s been building for a while. You’re already behind, and it takes more time and money to fix than it would have if you’d caught it during routine testing.
This is especially true with calcium hardness and total alkalinity. Those don’t affect clarity at all, but they absolutely affect your pool’s longevity and how well your other chemicals work. Trust the test results, not just what you see. Your eyes can’t measure pH or detect low sanitizer levels, but our equipment can.
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