The system most route techs in the East Valley won’t touch.
In-floor cleaning systems — Paramount, A&A, Caretaker — push debris toward the main drain through pop-up heads embedded in the pool floor. When they start underperforming, the symptom is almost always “my pool isn’t getting cleaned the way it used to.” The cause is usually a clogged pop-up head screen, a worn gate-face gasket on the control valve, or a cracked lid on the pop-up control module.
We service in-floor systems on every route stop where they’re installed. Pop-up screen cleaning is included in weekly service; replacement heads, control modules, and gate-face gaskets are quoted before we touch a wrench. If your pool came with one and the previous service company quietly ignored it, that’s something we’d rather fix.