Most pool companies hide their rates so they can size the quote to your driveway. We’ve been a family-owned operation in the foothills of the San Tan Mountains since 2012, and we publish what we charge because the numbers are fair and we want you to know what to expect before we ever pull up to your house.
The reason isn’t complicated. Pool service is a high-touch trade where most companies want the flexibility to size your quote to your house, your truck, and the neighborhood you live in. A bigger house gets a bigger number; a nicer car gets a nicer markup. That’s how the industry works, and that’s not how we work.
Published rates because the numbers are fair.
Wild Coyote Pool Service has been on routes in Queen Creek, San Tan Valley, Mesa, Chandler, and Gilbert since 2012. Our owner Chad still answers the phone, still runs his own route, and walks customers through what their equipment is doing and why — the kind of trade explanation you don’t get when you call the big franchise lines. When he says a cartridge filter clean is $100, that’s the number on the invoice. Same as the week before. Same as for the next customer down the route.
If your pool needs more than the published rates cover — a green-pool cleanout, a tile and calcium job, glass bead blasting, an in-floor system service, or a new pump and motor — we’ll walk it, write a flat quote, and email it before we touch a wrench. No mystery, no upsell theater, no “we’ll just see what it comes out to.”
Brushing, skimming, basket clearing, filter backwash, chemical analysis and balance, timer adjustment. Quoted per pool because no two pools are alike — factors that move the price are explained in the next section.
Recommended every three months in our dusty climate. We pull the elements, inspect the manifold for cracks, hose down each cartridge, and rebuild the assembly. Worn cartridges are flagged for replacement before they take out a pump.
Recommended every six months. We pull the grids, inspect the fabric for tears, hose them down, rebuild the assembly, and recharge with fresh D.E. powder to the correct charge for your filter. New media included.
Higher because the sand itself gets replaced. We open the tank, pull the old sand, inspect the laterals for cracks, and refill with fresh filter sand to the spec your tank requires. New sand included in the rate.
Full pool drain when calcium has built past chemistry’s reach, when TDS is out of range, or before an acid wash. Includes the equipment bypass so the pump isn’t running dry while the pool comes down.
For pools with stubborn staining, surface discoloration, or post-drain pickling. Acid wash for cement plaster; chlorine bath for tougher organic stains. The starting number is $150; we quote the final scope in the field once we’ve seen the surface dry.
The right call for calcium scale and mineral deposits on tile and plaster that acid won’t touch. Equipment, media, and labor quoted per pool because the scope swings widely depending on how much surface is affected.
Pumps, motors, filters, in-floor cleaning systems, saltwater cells, pressure gauges, valves, skimmer baskets, and pop-up head screens. Most jobs are flat-quoted with the part cost broken out separately so you see what we’re paying and what we’re charging to install it.
The filter, drain, and acid-wash rates above are flat. Weekly service is the one that’s quoted, because a pool with a screen, no tree cover, and a chlorine system is a different job from a pool with no screen, three mesquites overhead, and an in-floor cleaner. Here’s what we look at when we walk a new route stop.
The obvious one. More gallons means more chemistry, more surface to brush, more skimmer minutes. A small play pool and a sport pool with a deep end are not priced the same.
A screen enclosure cuts the debris load by most of it. No screen in Queen Creek means daily monsoon dust, palm fronds, and bougainvillea on top of the usual leaf drop — the basket and the filter both work harder.
In-floor pop-up heads need their screens pulled and rinsed regularly. We do that free of charge during a normal route stop, but the system itself adds time to weekly service compared to a pool with a separate suction or pressure cleaner.
Saltwater pools take a different chemistry routine — cell inspection, salt-level testing, stabilizer balance — on top of the normal sanitizer check. They’re also harder on tile if calcium isn’t kept in line, which earns them an extra eye each week.
Mesquite, palm, eucalyptus, and citrus all drop different debris loads, and a pool with three mature trees over it is a different job from one in an open backyard. Same goes for sloped decks, hard-to-reach equipment pads, and locked gates.
If your question isn’t here, Chad is the one who answers the line. He’d rather walk you through it on the phone than wait until we’re standing at your equipment pad to talk numbers.
Weekly service is billed monthly, in advance, at the start of each service month. Repair work, filter cleans, and one-off jobs are billed when the work is done — invoice emailed the same day, payment due on receipt.
Yes. Chlorine, acid, conditioner, and standard balancing chemistry are included in the weekly service price. The only chemistry that ever bills separately is a major shock or a phosphate treatment after a green pool — and we’d talk it through with you before we did either.
No surcharge. If a storm dumps a basket’s worth of debris into your skimmer and the route stop runs long, that’s the job we signed up for. The only time storm work bills separately is a full cleanout — a totally green pool the next morning is its own scope, not a weekly stop.
Month-to-month, no contract, cancel any time. We’ve kept customers on a handshake for years; we don’t think a piece of paper is what keeps the route showing up on Tuesday morning.
For the published rates, yes — filter cleans, drains, and acid washes are the same number on the phone as on the invoice. For weekly service, we’d rather walk the pool first. It takes ten minutes and protects you from a quote that turns into a surprise later.
Tell us where the pool is and what it’s doing; Chad will swing by, walk the equipment, and email a quote before he’s back to the truck. No mystery, no upsell, no contract.