Highland Beach Pool Service: Built Around the Town's Own Calendar

That's the Building Department's call, and you should get it from them rather than from us. Here's what's on the record: Ordinance 554 — Highland Beach Code, Article V, Chapter 4, Section 8 — requires beachfront lighting off from dusk to dawn, March 1 through October 31, along the town's roughly three-mile stretch of beach, and the Building Department words the same duty as turning off any lights not necessary for human safety. The ordinance is written against beachfront lighting; whether your pool and deck fixtures are captured by it is a question for the Building Department at 3616 S Ocean Blvd, 561-278-4540. Ask them, tell us the answer, and we'll set your timers, retrofits, and evening service windows to match it. Any company that tells you flatly one way or the other without checking is answering a question the town hasn't answered in writing.

That's most of what we do here. The town's water system serves 4,287 people through 572 service connections — roughly seven and a half people per connection, which is what a town of master-metered buildings looks like in the data. Association work means CPO-supervised chemistry, state compliance logs, vendor credentials on file before anybody touches the deck, and a written report that survives being read at a meeting. Florida requires an FPPS-certified specialist on public pools under Chapter 514; ours is #600551. We'll also sit in on the board meeting when the equipment conversation needs to be had out loud instead of over email.

It changes what we're willing to assume, not what we do. The town has run its own reverse osmosis plant since October 2004 — PWSID FL4500609, Floridan Aquifer wells 1,200 feet deep, 300-horsepower pumps forcing water through membranes above 350 psi, with antiscalant, a phosphate-based corrosion inhibitor, acid for pH, and chlorine as the disinfectant. The town says the process cuts hardness by approximately 90 percent and that it now adds calcium back to improve the taste. What it doesn't publish is the finished number. So we test your fill at the hose bib and work from that. Anyone quoting you a Highland Beach hardness figure is repeating something they read somewhere.

No, and the town says so itself. Highland Beach states that it follows the South Florida Water Management District's Year-Round Irrigation Rule: odd-numbered addresses Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, even-numbered Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday, before 10 a.m. or after 4 p.m. That rule governs landscape irrigation rather than pool filling, but the underlying point matters — running its own plant doesn't put the town outside the district. If a contractor tells you Highland Beach has more room on drain-and-refill work than Boca Raton or Delray Beach because of the RO plant, they've invented it.

Florida's Best Pools. CPO-licensed (C-105377), FPPS-certified (#600551), 5.0 stars across 222+ Google reviews, 10,000+ pools serviced, and 40+ years of combined founder experience across Matt Balog, Joe Ford, Ronald Liddell, and Doug Santiago. The Highland Beach-specific test for anyone bidding your building: do they know the town permits and inspects its own work out of 3616 S Ocean Blvd, and do they know what starts on March 1? A company that treats this as a suburb of Boca will find out about both the hard way. We run the strip in one pass from our Boca Raton base. Call 954-347-1120.

Residential pricing starts at $125/month and typically runs $125–$240 depending on pool size, equipment, and how much recovery work is needed up front — flat-rate once it's set, with no add-on chemical fees. Association and shared-deck pools are quoted separately, because the work is a different job: more frequent visits, CPO-supervised chemistry, and compliance records that take real time to produce properly. Either way the number comes after a free on-site inspection, not over the phone. On a shared deck, a quote given sight-unseen is a quote somebody intends to revise.

Weekly at minimum, and shared decks usually need more than that. On an association pool the drivers are bather load and the state's record-keeping expectations, and neither pauses for the season. On a single-family pool here the driver is different: the Census counts 4,338 housing units in Highland Beach with 43.7 percent of them vacant, and the median age is 69.8. Whatever mix of second homes and seasonal use that represents, the practical effect is that a lot of gates in this town don't get opened for stretches. A pool nobody looks at between visits is a pool where a skipped week turns into a recovery job rather than a long skim.

Highland Beach has exactly one: 33487, and we cover all of it. In practice that means every address on South Ocean Boulevard between the Delray Beach line and the Boca Raton line — the oceanfront buildings, the Intracoastal-side buildings, and the single-family addresses off the road including Bel Lido Drive. It's a three-mile run on one road, which is why we service the whole town in a single pass instead of splitting it across days.

Yes — quarterly cell acid cleaning, salinity held against 2,800–3,400 ppm, sacrificial anode inspection, and scale-prevention chemistry, which is 3–7 years out of a cell that's actually maintained. The Highland Beach wrinkle is the fill water. The town's reverse osmosis plant strips roughly 90 percent of the hardness and then adds calcium back, and it doesn't publish the finished number, so a salt pool here is topped off with water whose calcium and alkalinity we know only because we measured them. Salinity and calcium are separate dials and they move independently. We test the hose bib rather than the brochure.

Yes — all of Highland Beach, which is a shorter answer here than almost anywhere. There is one through road, State Road A1A, and every address in the town limits is on it or just off it. Oceanfront buildings, Intracoastal-side buildings, and the single-family addresses including Bel Lido Drive are all on the same weekly pass. If your association keeps a vendor list with insurance, credential, or badging requirements, send it with the quote request and we'll confirm we already meet it rather than finding out at the gate.

Yes. Certified Pool Operator license C-105377, FPPS #600551 held by Matt Balog, fully insured in the State of Florida, proof sent on request. This comes up on nearly every job in Highland Beach, because so much of the town is association-governed and Florida requires an FPPS-certified specialist on public pools under Chapter 514. We send credentials directly to the management company so nobody on your board is chasing paperwork the week before an inspection.

In Highland Beach that's the normal case rather than the exception — 43.7 percent of the town's housing units are counted vacant, and plenty of owners are away for long stretches. You get a photo-documented service report on request: chemistry readings, equipment-pad photos, and a written note on anything that changed since the last visit. For a building, that report is the record the board reads. For a private owner who's out of town, it's how you learn about a pad problem while it's still a part rather than a project — and it's why we photograph the pad every week here instead of only when something looks wrong.