David Van Brunt
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Route-tested pool service advice.
The Pool Guy Podcast Show is a working pool-service trade show built around practical decisions on the route. It covers cleaner choices, chlorine products, reputation, rate pressure, difficult accounts, and the small habits that keep pools polished and customers satisfied.
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The Pool Guy Podcast Show is a field manual for the pool service business, built around the problems that show up after the sale is made and the route begins. It is direct and utilitarian. The show spends serious time on what makes a pool look serviced: brushing after vacuuming, using spot-cleaning tools, installing automatic cleaners, and refusing to let a cleaner become an excuse for a sloppy finish. Equipment talk is specific, with episodes comparing tools such as the Bottom Feeder and the Shrimp cleaner, and explaining how cordless vacuums can change the time math on a route. Chemistry is just as central. Episodes discuss trichlor tablets, chlorine strength, available chlorine percentages, chlorine gas history, liquid chlorine, and the kinds of products that can zero out a pool's chlorine level. The show also thinks like a small-business operator. It weighs when a customer is not worth keeping, why awkward access and large pools can quietly erase profit, and how wind, debris, equipment layout, and rock features can turn a weekly stop into a hazard. Reputation gets its own attention. A one- or two-star review is treated as a business risk, not a minor annoyance. The advice is often framed through firsthand mistakes and habits learned over years, including the value of leaving every pool polished and letting customers win smaller battles. Shortcuts are treated as expensive. The show is not trying to romanticize the trade. It talks about efficiency, rates, cleaner requirements, rate increases, and the hard call to drop accounts that drag down the business. Sponsor reads and coaching mentions are part of the format, so the pace can feel repetitive around openings and closings. Between those segments, though, the useful material is concrete. Pool service pros get practical arguments they can use with customers, tool comparisons they can apply on a truck, and chemistry reminders that affect real water. Homeowners can still learn from it, but the center of gravity is the working route. The show is best for people who care about clean pools, sustainable margins, and the unglamorous decisions that keep a service business from getting buried by bad accounts.
Made for: Pool service professionals, solo operators, and growing route-based companies are the clearest fit. Homeowners who want a behind-the-scenes view of pool care can also pick up practical chemistry and equipment knowledge.
What sets it apart: The show connects hands-on pool maintenance with the business math behind every stop. It treats brushing, cleaners, chlorine, reviews, and customer selection as linked parts of the same route-profitability problem.
In this podcast I cover everything swimming pool care-related from chemistry to automatic cleaners and equipment. I focus on the pool service side of things and also offer tips to homeowners. There are also some great interviews with guests from inside the industry.
A rock-feature wipeout becomes the pool-route business lesson you will remember.
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A blunt route audit for pool pros who want a cleaner way to decide which accounts to keep.
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The PoolGuy Podcast Show episode centers on adding extra services to a pool business without “working seven days a week,” and the host says the move has to be “very strategically” planned.
This episode provides practical tips for pool service professionals to optimize their routes and save time without compromising service quality.
A 35-year pool service veteran explains which customer types and pool characteristics make accounts unprofitable or operationally difficult.
The host discusses trichlor tablets for pool sanitation and promotes his coaching program for pool service professionals.
This episode discusses the strength of different chlorine types for pool care, featuring an interview with industry expert Bob Lowry.
This episode discusses products that can zero out chlorine levels in pools and promotes coaching for pool service professionals.
The PoolGuy Podcast Show centers on a comparison between the Bottom Feeder and the Shrimp Cleaner, both from the same company, after the host says a recent video generated many questions about which one to buy for a pool route.
The host discusses the importance of managing online reputation and avoiding negative reviews for pool service businesses.
The host discusses a pool vacuum product update and promotes his coaching program for pool service professionals.
This episode provides practical tips and hacks for maintaining, cleaning, and knowing when to replace DE filters, specifically focusing on common models like the Pentair 2000 series in Southern California.
This episode explains the Langelier Saturation Index and its importance in pool water balancing for residential and commercial pools.
This episode explains pool pH, how to raise or lower it, and discusses using borax as a pH buffer.
The host discusses the true cost of algae in pools for service professionals, emphasizing loss of trust and time consumption, and promotes his coaching program.
This episode explains calcium hypochlorite (CalHypo) usage in pools, including its percentage, benefits, and cautions, aimed at pool service professionals.
This episode covers pool party preparation and fixing alkalinity, with an interview featuring industry veteran Bob Lowry.