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Matt Balog, Founder & Lead Pool Technician
Lead Technician · 25+ years experience

Matt Balog

Founder & Lead Pool Technician

Matt Balog has been cleaning pools since he was a kid. His father — a licensed Florida swimming pool maintenance and repair contractor since 1989 — taught him the trade from the ground up: water chemistry, equipment mechanics, how to read a filter pressure gauge, what a failing pump sounds like two months before it fails. Pool service wasn't a job Matt took on. It was the family business.

Background

He's been running professional pool service routes in South Florida since the late 1990s, covering Las Olas Isles, Harbor Beach, Highland Beach, Boca Raton, Delray Beach, and the coastal corridors in between. Over 35 years in and around the industry, he's serviced pools across Palm Beach and Broward counties — canal-front homes, country-club communities, oceanfront estates, and screen-enclosed suburban pools across every South Florida configuration.

Matt executes Florida's Best Pools' documented weekly protocol start to finish: deck and equipment walkthrough, full chemistry test, balance, skim, brush, vacuum, basket service, equipment inspection, and a photo-documented report emailed to the homeowner the same day. He's the technician behind many of the company's field protocols — including the iguana-response checklist and the coastal equipment-pad inspection standard. When a pool in South Florida needs to be right, Matt is the one doing the work.

Areas of expertise

  • Weekly residential pool service — chemistry, equipment, and documentation
  • Iguana-contamination response protocol and Salmonella risk mitigation
  • Coastal equipment-pad inspection and salt-air corrosion identification
  • Salt chlorinator systems and salt cell lifecycle management
  • Canal-front and oceanfront pool chemistry management in South Florida
  • Photo-documented service reporting and client communication

Notable work

  • Executes the iguana-contamination response protocol — visual inspection, physical removal, shock treatment, photo documentation — on every affected pool visit across South Florida routes.
  • Runs coastal equipment-pad inspections on Las Olas Isles, Harbor Beach, Highland Beach, and oceanfront Boca Raton routes, flagging corrosion and lifespan issues before equipment failure.
  • Brings two generations of family knowledge to every pool he services — chemistry discipline, equipment intuition, and the refusal to cut corners his father instilled from day one.

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