Pool service from Warren
to Rochester.
Year-round pool, hot tub, and capital project work for the Mad River Valley. PHTA-Certified, fully insured, and operated from Rochester — same operator on every visit.
Our home corridor — year-round, full-time.
The Mad River Valley is where we live and work. Operating from Rochester puts every town in this corridor inside a comfortable service radius — close enough that we don’t charge a travel surcharge for routine recurring visits, and close enough that emergency response actually means same day.
The valley’s pool ecosystem is its own thing. A mix of year-round residences, second homes that come alive on weekends, vacation rentals that turn over weekly, and small commercial operators tied to the ski-and-summer rhythm. Each of those use cases asks something slightly different from a pool operator — chemistry that holds through a guest turnover, equipment that won’t fail when the owner is six hours away, documentation that the next caretaker can pick up cleanly. We built the practice around those realities.
Vermont’s Zone 5a season — April through October, with shoulder weeks that swing both ways — rewards operators who know the local cadence. Late spring opens, early fall closes, and a lot of November-through-March work that goes into making April’s opening painless. Living in the valley means we’re reading the same forecast the rest of the season, not phoning it in from somewhere warmer.
Five towns. One operator.
Core service area for routine recurring contracts. No travel surcharge inside this corridor; pricing matches our published rates on the pricing page.
Warren
High-end residential and second-home pools, often paired with hot tubs. We handle multi-property accounts where a single operator visits everything on the same circuit.
Waitsfield
Year-round residential pools, hot tubs, and the occasional small-commercial property. Recurring seasonal contracts are the standard arrangement here.
Fayston
Sugarbush-side hot tubs and a smaller share of pools. Equipment rooms are often unheated, so winterization and freeze-protection scheduling matters more here than in lower-elevation towns.
Moretown
Mix of residential and commuter properties between the valley and Waterbury. Easy access on the Route 100B / Route 100 corridor; no travel adder.
Rochester
Where we live and where the truck starts every morning. Year-round availability for residential pool, hot tub, and small repair work.
Also serving adjacent villages: Granville, Hancock, Roxbury, Northfield, Stockbridge, and parts of the Route 100 corridor on a case-by-case basis. Ask if you’re nearby.
What we offer in the valley.
Same offerings as anywhere else in our service area — same published pricing, same one-person standard. Linked rates on the pricing page.
Recurring Pool Service
Spring opening through fall closing, bundled into a single seasonal contract. Three pool tiers based on volume; chemicals at cost plus 20%.
See pool pricing →Year-Round Hot Tub Service
Bi-weekly chemistry, quarterly drain & refill, equipment monitoring. Standard and premium / swim spa annual contracts.
See hot tub pricing →Vacation Rental & Hospitality
Multi-property hot tub and pool service for property managers running short-term rental rotations. Documented turnovers, owner-absent operation.
Hospitality quote →Pre-Purchase Inspections
Written CPO reports for buyers and real estate negotiations. Useful for valley properties changing hands at the start or end of the season.
See inspection pricing →Repairs & Emergency Response
Pumps, filters, heaters, salt cells, automation, minor plumbing. Same-day or next-day during the season, May through October.
See repair pricing →Above-Ground Pool Projects
Installation, liner replacement, and demolition for above-ground pools. Quote-based capital projects with published starting anchors.
See construction page →Local, credentialed, year-round.
We Live Here
Operating from Rochester, year-round. We’re not phoning it in from Burlington or Rutland during the busy season — the truck starts in the valley every morning.
PHTA-Certified Operator
Active CPO® credential and roughly seventeen years of resort and hospitality aquatics experience. Same person on every visit, no rotating crew.
Reads The Local Season
Zone 5a freeze-thaw, late-spring opens, equipment rooms that drop below freezing in February — the valley’s pool problems are local problems, and the practice is built around them.
Records That Outlive Us
Our partner Lindsey Jarrell runs the documentation system — visit logs, equipment histories, written summaries you can hand to a future owner or property manager without a translation step.
Valley-specific questions.
Do you serve towns outside the five named?
Often, yes. The named five — Warren, Waitsfield, Fayston, Moretown, Rochester — are the no-travel-surcharge core. Adjacent villages on the Route 100 and Route 100B corridors (Granville, Hancock, Roxbury, Northfield, Stockbridge, and others) we serve case-by-case, with a small travel line item shown on every proposal.
Send us your address and we’ll tell you in plain terms whether you’re inside the routine corridor or whether a travel adder applies.
How does service work for a second home or vacation rental when the owner isn’t around?
That’s the standard arrangement in the valley, not the exception. We work with property managers and absentee owners on multi-property routes — documented turnovers, photographed visits, written summaries emailed after each appointment. The owner doesn’t need to be on-site; the records are.
For vacation rentals on platforms like SkyRun, VRBO, or Airbnb, we can scope the service cadence around your booking calendar so chemistry holds through guest turnover.
What’s the typical pool season schedule in the Mad River Valley?
For most outdoor pools in the valley: opening in late April or early May (weather-dependent), full service through the summer, closing in late September or early October. Indoor pools and hot tubs run year-round.
Higher-elevation properties on the Sugarbush side often open a week or two later than valley-floor pools and close a week earlier. We schedule around each property’s actual conditions, not a calendar default.
Are there elevation or microclimate considerations I should know about?
A few. Equipment rooms in unheated outbuildings can hit deep-freeze temperatures by late November — aggressive winterization matters more here than in lower-elevation Vermont. Spring opens get pushed later by lingering snowpack at higher elevations. And summer chemistry can swing fast in shoulder weeks when overnight temperatures still dip into the 30s and 40s.
None of these are dealbreakers; they’re just things a year-round local operator factors into the service plan without being asked.
How do I get on the schedule for a spring opening?
Get the deposit in by February or early March for a guaranteed spot in the spring rotation. Late-March and April requests usually still get honored, but the window for picking exact dates narrows. Hot tub and emergency work has a shorter lead time year-round.
Send an inquiry or use the pricing page to book directly.
Pricing is published. The next step is yours.
All contract and one-off rates are posted publicly. Most quotes can come back in writing the same business day — no sales call required, no packages pushed that don’t fit your property.
Prefer to talk? Leave a message at (802) 585-1507 — calls returned the same business day, M–F. Email also works: dylan@dylanhoyt.com.