Your pool gets a day of the week.
I'm Gail Prentiss. I ran the water at the Olathe municipal pool for nineteen years, and now I run five weekly routes across Johnson County. Same day every week, same person at your gate, and a note in my handwriting telling you what your water said.
$62 a visit, weekly, standard chemicals included.
Five routes, Monday to Friday.
CPO certified · Insured in Kansas · Based in Olathe, serving Johnson County only
Thu · 9:40 am
Cl 3.2, pH 7.5. Right where I want you before a hot weekend.
Skimmed, both baskets emptied, brushed the tile line. Your gauge hit 16 so I backwashed. It settled at 9.
Heads up, the alley gate hinge is sagging. I'll bring a screw for it next week, no charge.
Gate latched. G.P.
Route days
I split the county into five routes and gave each one its day. My truck never crosses Johnson County twice before lunch, and that is the whole trick. It is how your visit lands in the same two-hour window every week.
- MondayOlathe & Gardner
- TuesdayLenexa, Shawnee & Merriam
- WednesdayOverland Park
- ThursdayLeawood, Prairie Village & Mission
- FridayStilwell, Spring Hill & repair calls
Rain does not earn you a skip. A storm is exactly when your chemistry goes sideways, so I clean in the rain and stand down only for lightning.
Holidays slide, they don't vanish. If Memorial Day is your day, I run the route on Tuesday and Renee texts you the night before.
Want mornings instead of afternoons? Easy, and free. Changing your whole day means waiting for a slot to open on another route, and I keep a list.
What I do and what it costs
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Weekly full service
I skim, brush, vacuum if the floor needs it, empty every basket, and test six readings. Standard chemicals are in the price, so your bill in July looks like your bill in May.
$62 per visit
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Weekly chemistry only
You like skimming your own pool? Fine by me. I test, dose, and leave you the log every week, and your water stays honest.
$44 per visit
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Spring opening
Cover off, cleaned and folded. Equipment reassembled and primed, startup chemicals in, first vacuum done. If anything won't hold pressure, I come back inside a week for free.
$395
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Fall closing
I blow the lines and plug them, set the antifreeze, and get the cover on tight in dry weather. I closed 61 pools last fall and not one of them opened green.
$365
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Equipment repair
Pumps, filters, heaters, salt cells, actuators, automation. I carry the common Pentair and Hayward parts in the truck, because a second trip helps nobody.
$115 diagnostic, applied to the repair
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Green to clean
Text me a photo of the swamp, hon, I have seen worse. Most rescues take three visits over ten days, and I quote the whole thing up front, chemicals included.
Usually $250 to $450, quoted from your photo
What a weekly visit looks like
About twenty-five minutes, more when the cottonwoods let go. I do it in the same order every single time, because the order is how nothing gets forgotten.
- Skim the surface and the steps
- Empty the skimmer and pump baskets
- Brush the tile line and anywhere algae likes to start
- Vacuum if the floor needs it
- Test the water, six readings, every week
- Dose, backwash when the gauge says so, log it
- Latch the gate, clip the note to it, text you a photo
The note habit comes from the municipal pool, where the health inspector wanted every reading on paper with a signature. Nineteen years of that and you can't put it down. I'm told the notes end up on refrigerators.
Visit log Thu Aug 14 · 9:42 am · 27 min
- Skimmed, baskets emptied
- Tile line brushed
- Vacuumed shallow end
- Backwashed, gauge 14 → 9 psi
- FC
- 3.2
- pH
- 7.5
- TA
- 90
- CH
- 240
- CYA
- 60
- Salt
- 3100
Added 2 lb 2 oz dichlor. Cottonwood fluff is nearly done for the year, I pulled two baskets of it anyway. Gate latched, note's on the clip. G.P.
From Thursday's gate note
Six readings, then the note, then the latch. The order never changes.
Openings and closings
Opening season
April 14 to Memorial Day
The week before Memorial Day books out by early May, every single year. Open in April instead. Cold water is easier to balance, and you get first pick of dates next spring.
Closing season
September 21 to Halloween
I close in dry weather so the cover goes on clean. Wait past the first hard freeze and you're paying me for a burst pipe instead of a closing. My weekly customers get scheduled first, automatically.
Both jobs take two of us about two hours. You don't need to be home. Honestly, the pool behaves better when nobody's watching, and you get photos of the equipment pad when we're done.
Where I go
Johnson County, Kansas. All of it, and only it. Keeping every route inside one county is the entire reason I can promise you a day.
- Overland Park
- Olathe
- Leawood
- Lenexa
- Shawnee
- Prairie Village
- Mission
- Merriam
- Mission Hills
- Roeland Park
- Fairway
- Westwood
- Gardner
- Spring Hill
- Stilwell
- De Soto
Just over the line in Bucyrus or Edgerton? Call anyway. If a route already passes near you, I'll usually say yes, and if I can't, I know who to send you to.
Tell me about the pool and I'll find its day.
Call, or text a photo of the water to the same number. Renee or I answer, not a call center, which is why the phone stops at 5.
Bluecrest is me, Gail Prentiss, my son-in-law Marcus on the two north routes, and my sister Renee on the phone. I ran the chemistry at the Olathe municipal pool for nineteen years before I bought my first eleven accounts in 2019. Water doesn't lie, and in all that time it never has.