The Pool Person You Hand Your Clients
Certified Pool Operator opinions for buyers and sellers across Pittsburgh, Sewickley, and Allegheny County — scheduled to your inspection window, written so you can put it straight in front of the other side.
The home inspection excluded the pool
You already know this and your client almost certainly doesn't. Pools and spas are excluded under the ASHI and InterNACHI standards of practice, so the report comes back with “recommend evaluation by a pool professional” and a disclaimer — on a system that can run five figures to repair.
That line in the report is where deals go sideways.
Either nobody follows up on it and your buyer discovers a failed heater or a leaking return line in June — and remembers who represented them — or somebody scrambles to find a pool company in the last three days of the contingency period and can't get one out.
Having a Certified Pool Operator you can call the day the report lands turns that into a scheduled appointment and a written document. It is the difference between a renegotiation you control and a surprise you don't.
Built around how you actually work
We understand contingency dates, we understand that you need something in writing, and we understand that you are the one who has to explain it.
We work to your deadline
Tell us when the inspection contingency expires and we route around it. Short windows are the norm in this market and we plan for them.
A written opinion, with photos
Conditions, photographs, and realistic repair cost ranges — formatted so you can forward it to your client, the listing side, or a lender without translating it first.
Numbers you can ask for
Our cost ranges are the numbers we would quote to do the work. That makes a credit request defensible instead of a round figure someone pulled out of the air.
We get on the phone
If your client or the other agent has questions about what we found, we will explain it. You should not have to defend a pool report you didn't write.
Your client isn't stranded
We open, close, service, and repair pools all over Allegheny County. Whoever ends up owning it has someone to call — and that reflects on you.
Somebody you can name
Certified Pool Operator, twenty-plus years local, BBB accredited, Pentair factory warranty station. A referral you can make without hedging.
Buyer's agents and listing agents use this differently
If you represent the buyer
- Order the opinion the day the home inspection comes back excluded
- Know before closing whether the heater, pump, or liner is at end of life
- Get the underground lines evaluated before a deck gets poured over the problem
- Ask for a credit backed by a written number, not an estimate
- Walk away informed if the pool genuinely is a money pit
If you represent the seller
- Get ahead of it — find out what the pool needs before you go on market
- Fix the cheap things and price the rest in, instead of renegotiating at day 25
- Hand buyers a documented pool opinion and remove an unknown from the deal
- Stop a buyer's inflated repair estimate with a real one
- Have the pool opened, cleaned, and looking right for photos and showings
The pool, the lines, and the equipment
Those are the three places a pool hides money. We assess all three, plus the safety items that become the new owner's liability at closing.
- The pool — shell, plaster or liner, coping, tile, deck, structural cracking
- The lines — skimmer, main drain, returns and suction; pressure testing where they can be isolated
- The equipment — pump, filter, heater, salt cell, automation, with honest remaining life
- Safety — anti-entrapment drain covers, bonding, barriers, gate latches, cover condition
- Workmanship — whether prior repairs were done properly or papered over
Put us in your vendor list
If you write pool properties regularly, get in touch and we will set you up as a referral partner — priority scheduling during inspection season, a direct line rather than the general queue, and one point of contact who knows your deals.
The things you'll want to know
How quickly can you get out to a property?
Give us the contingency expiration date when you call and we schedule to it. Inspection season is busy — the earlier in the window you reach us, the more flexibility we have. A same-week appointment is normal if you call in the first few days.
What area do you cover?
Sewickley and the surrounding North Hills, the City of Pittsburgh, and Allegheny County generally. See our Allegheny County and Pittsburgh North service pages. If you are just outside, call and ask.
Can my client use your opinion to ask for a credit?
That is largely what it is for. The cost ranges in the opinion are the numbers we would quote to do the work ourselves, which makes them a lot harder to dismiss than a figure someone estimated. What the other side does with it is between you and them.
The pool is closed for the season. Is it still worth it?
Yes, with limits we will state plainly in writing. Closed, we can still assess the equipment, plumbing configuration, deck, coping, cover, and visible structure. What we cannot do is run the system or see the surface. For a significant purchase it is sometimes worth opening the pool — we will tell you honestly whether we think that is warranted.
Do you do the repairs you find?
We can, and many clients have us do them — but the opinion is not a sales pitch. We have no stake in whether the deal closes, and we would rather be the company you call for the next twenty transactions than pick up one repair job.
Can you also open, clean, or close the pool for a listing?
Yes. Openings, cleaning, green-to-clean restoration before photos, and closings are all standard work for us. A green pool in the listing photos costs the seller real money.
Got a pool property under contract?
Call (412) 534-3490 with the address and the deadline.
