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Florida's Best Pool Service
Free pool education from working Florida pool techs

Everything we know about Florida pools — free, plain-English, no email gate.

234+ guides for South Florida pool owners — water chemistry, cleaning, troubleshooting, equipment, salt systems, and the regional realities (iguanas, hurricane prep, snowbird gaps) the manufacturers won't tell you about. Pool service pros, we also publish the full 15-module CPO-grade curriculum we use to train our own technicians.

Pool Owner Guides →For Pool Pros — 15-Module Curriculum
  • 15 modules · 150 chapters · 32+ hours
  • 234+ reference guides
  • Written by CPO-certified techs
  • Free · no email gate
Written by our founders

Specialty articles from the founders

A few of the deeper pieces our founders wrote themselves — pricing, equipment, seasonal, and the South Florida realities (yes, including iguanas) you only learn after years on the route.

Seasonal · 11 min read
The First Cold Front: The Pool Heater Calls We Get Every Fall in South Florida, and What They Usually Turn Out to Be
The week South Florida's first real cold front hits, pool heater calls spike, and most of those heaters aren't broken. A route tech's triage of the 8 calls we get every fall, in the order they arrive, with what you can safely check before you pay anyone.
By Matt Balog
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Pricing · 10 min read
Why You Should Pay $125 or More for a Pool Cleaner in Boca Raton (The Hidden Costs Most Homeowners Never See)
$125/month is the floor for proper weekly pool service in Boca Raton — and most luxury Boca pools cost more. Anything cheaper is mathematically forced to cut chemicals, time, or equipment care. Here's the real cost breakdown, a side-by-side comparison, and what fair 2026 pricing looks like.
By Joe Ford
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Problem Solving · 8 min read
Iguana Droppings in Your Pool: A South Florida Reality Check (and the Protocol)
Are iguana droppings dangerous in a pool? Yes — they carry Salmonella. Here's the documented protocol Florida's Best Pool Service follows on every visit, what homeowners can do between visits, and how to actually reduce frequency.
By Matt Balog
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Equipment · 9 min read
Salt-Air Equipment Damage in Coastal South Florida Pools: What's Actually Failing, and Why
After 30 years of Matt Balog's route work from Las Olas Isles to Highland Beach, here's what salt air actually does to pump motors, salt cells, heaters, and stainless hardware — and the protocol that stretches equipment lifespan.
By Joe Ford
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For homeowners & operators · 19 pillars · 234+ articles

Pool Care Guides

234+ deep-dive articles across 19 pillars — water chemistry, equipment, troubleshooting, Florida pool care, plaster startup, and more. Written from the field by CPO-certified techs who've worked on pools from Pompano to Highland Beach.

Pool Water Chemistry: Ideal Levels Chart + Guide
10 guides
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Pool Cleaning & Maintenance
14 guides
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Troubleshooting Pool Problems
14 guides
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Pool Equipment Guide: Pumps, Filters, Heaters & Salt
37 guides
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For technicians · 15 modules · ~32+ hours

The Pool Technician Curriculum

The full 15-module curriculum every Florida's Best Pool Service technician goes through. 150 sub-chapters covering chemistry, plumbing, equipment, weather, sales, marketing, and Florida-specific operations. Plain English, dumbed down where it helps, technical where it matters.

Module 01 · 10 chapters
Pool Chemistry
Keeping water crystal-clear in humid, rainy Florida.
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Module 02 · 10 chapters
Plumbing
Pipes, valves, and fittings that survive Florida salt air and heavy rain.
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Module 03 · 10 chapters
Pool Heaters
Year-round pool heat in Florida — efficient, safe, storm-tough.
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Module 04 · 10 chapters
Pool Pumps
The heart of the pool — how to pick, prime, and keep it running.
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Module 05 · 10 chapters
Weather
Hurricanes, heat, rain, and UV — Florida's weather curriculum for techs.
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Module 06 · 10 chapters
Types of Pools
Every construction type common in Florida — how they're built, how they fail.
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Run a pool service company? Want this for your team?

We license the full curriculum (with custom branding and internal assessments) to other Florida pool-service companies. If you want a structured training program for your techs without building one from scratch, let's talk.

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