Spring openings from April, closings through October
Pool openings and closings
The two visits a year that decide how the other fifty go.
We open pools across Lake of the Ozarks and Rolla starting in April and close them through October. Both are billed separately from weekly service, on every plan.
- Serving the area since 1995
- Licensed & insured
- No contract
- Openings
- April onward, booked ahead
- Closings
- September through October
- Winterized hold
- Available for empty properties
- Booking
- Earlier is cheaper — see below
- Not included in plans
- Billed separately on Standard, Essential and Elite
Opening late is the most expensive thing most owners do
Water under a cover doesn’t stay still. It warms through March and April, the chlorine that was in it is long gone, and the organic load from the fall is still sitting there. By early May a pool that was merely cloudy in March has become a full algae bloom.
The difference in cost is not small. Opening a pool that’s cloudy is a normal visit. Opening a pool that has gone fully green is a recovery: multiple visits, a lot of chemistry, filter runs measured in days rather than hours, and sometimes a partial drain. People routinely spend three or four times what an early opening would have cost, and they lose the first weeks of the season waiting on the water.
Closing badly costs even more, just later. A pool closed with unbalanced water spends five months etching or scaling its own surface. A pool closed without properly blown lines can split plumbing in a hard freeze, and you find out in April when you open and the water won’t hold.
What an opening includes
Cover off, cleaned and stored. Equipment reassembled and started. Plugs pulled, returns and skimmers back in service. Water tested and brought into balance. A first clean, and a service report telling you the condition everything came out of winter in — which is when equipment problems are cheapest to find.
What a closing includes
Water balanced for storage, not for swimming — those are different targets. Lines blown and plugged, equipment drained, filter cleaned, pump and heater winterized. Cover on and secured. Anything we find that shouldn’t wait until spring gets flagged in the report while there’s still time to deal with it.
Winterized holds for empty properties
If a property is going to sit — a rental coming off the market, an owner deploying, a house going up for sale — it’s usually cheaper to close it and hold it than to run weekly service on a pool nobody swims in. We can carry a pool through the off-season in a stable state and open it when you’re ready.
Spring opening
Cover off, equipment started, water balanced, first clean and a full condition report.
Fall closing
Balanced for storage, lines blown, equipment winterized and cover secured before the first hard freeze.
Winterized hold
For properties sitting empty. Closed, stable and held until you want it back.
Questions we get
When should I open?
April in most years at the lake and in Rolla. Every week you wait past the water warming, the recovery gets more expensive. Book ahead — spring fills up.
Are openings and closings included in my plan?
No. They're billed separately on every plan — Standard, Essential and Elite. Weekly service covers the season between them.
Do I need to be home?
No, as long as we can reach the pool and equipment. You get the report afterward either way.
I opened it myself and it's green.
That's a recovery rather than an opening, and it's routine work for us. We'll quote it before starting.
Do you drain the pool to close it?
Not usually. We lower it below the returns and blow the lines. A full drain risks the structure and is almost never necessary here.
How late can I close?
Through October generally. Don't push past the first hard freeze — that's when plumbing splits, and that repair costs far more than a closing.
Get a quote this week
Tell us where the pool is and roughly what you're dealing with. We'll come look at it and give you a number, free.