Nevergreen Pools provides pool service in Folsom, covering weekly maintenance and water chemistry, green pool and algae clean-ups, filter cleaning and repair, pump, heater, and salt cell repair or replacement, automation, and new equipment installation.

Call us if the plaster surface feels rough or chalky underfoot, if the water level is dropping faster than evaporation can explain, if the pump is grinding or humming without starting, if the salt cell has stopped producing chlorine, if the pool turns green or cloudy after the first hot stretch in June, if the filter pressure keeps climbing between cleanings, if the heater will not hold a set temperature, or if oak leaves and spring pollen are loading the skimmer baskets faster than you can keep up.

Nevergreen Pools is a licensed pool company based in Shingle Springs, serving the Sacramento region. Call to get a technician scheduled, or book your first visit online.

How Weekly Service Works Here

The first visit starts with a walk of the equipment pad and a full water test on your fill water, since Folsom's supply comes off Folsom Lake and runs soft with low calcium and low alkalinity, which changes how we balance everything after. We check the plaster or pebble finish for etching, inspect the filter media, look over the pump and motor, test the heater, check the salt cell for scale, and check the visible plumbing at the pad for wear at unions and valves. We also note the age and condition of the equipment on the pad and the condition of the deck, so nothing shows up as a surprise on a later invoice. That gives us a condition report before we set a chemistry program, not after.

After that, the weekly visit follows the same pattern every time. We test and dose based on that day's reading rather than a fixed schedule, since chlorine burns off fast once summer highs push into the high 90s and past 100, and demand changes after a load of oak leaves comes down. We skim, empty baskets, brush the walls and steps, vacuum as needed, and check the equipment pad. Filter cleaning and salt cell cleaning are scheduled off pressure and output readings, not the calendar, because a filter that is still moving water well does not need to be pulled apart yet.

• Test and balance chlorine, pH, alkalinity, and calcium hardness, adjusted for Folsom's soft fill water and the day's heat
• Skim the surface and empty skimmer and pump baskets
• Brush walls, steps, and the waterline where etching shows up first
• Vacuum the pool as debris requires
• Check pump, filter pressure, heater operation, and salt cell output
• Backwash or clean the filter and inspect the cell for scale when readings call for it
• Check the deck and equipment pad for anything that needs attention before it becomes a repair

Repairs and Equipment

When something on the pad needs attention, we flag it on the same visit, write up what we found and what it costs to fix, and send our own techs to do the repair rather than handing it to a subcontractor. That keeps one team responsible for the pool from the weekly test strip to the motor swap.

A lot of what we find comes down to age. Many of the plaster pools built here in the 1980s and 1990s are due or past due for a replaster, and still run original single-speed pumps and sand or DE filters near the end of their service life. Newer subdivisions south of Highway 50 are a different story, mostly pebble finishes with variable-speed pumps, cartridge filters, and salt systems already in place. Old equipment gets a straight answer on repair versus replacement. A single-speed pump or an aging heater with one bad part is usually worth repairing. A pump running on bearings that are already howling, or a heat exchanger that has corroded from years of unbalanced, low-alkalinity water, usually is not, because the running cost of an old unit outweighs a repair bill within a season or two. Any pump we install gets programmed as a variable-speed unit with separate speeds for filtration, cleaning, spa, and any water features, since running a pool on one fixed speed wastes electricity every day it operates. New equipment gets sized to the pool's actual volume and plumbing, not swapped one for one for whatever failed, because an oversized pump or heater is a common reason filters and salt cells wear out early. We also check that the existing plumbing and electrical can support the new equipment before we install anything, since retrofitting a variable-speed pump onto old wiring is its own job.