It's hard to find a company you can fully trust when your pool turns green or a pump stops working overnight. Adams Pool & Spa has handled pool service in Long Beach for 15 years to keep water clean, balanced, and swim-ready. Residential pools, commercial properties, and in-ground spas stay cared for every month of the year.
Two paths down this page. Pick the one that matches your property and we'll route you to the right service team.
Single-family homes, condos, and private in-ground spas across Long Beach. Weekly service, repair, builds, and resurfacing for homeowners who want one company on the equipment pad for the life of the pool.
See residential pool service · See residential pool repair · See residential pool builder
HOAs, hotels, apartment complexes, gyms, and condo associations across Long Beach. Multi-visit weekly service, Title 22 compliance, documented chemistry logs, and a single account manager per property.
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Most Long Beach residential pools need professional service once a week. Coastal air and a year-round swim season pull chemistry out of balance fast, so weekly cleaning keeps water clear. Bi-weekly works in cooler months for lightly used pools.
Belmont Shore, Naples Island, and Alamitos Beach pools fight salt air every night. Bixby Knolls and California Heights pools deal with pollen, jacaranda, and palm debris more than saltwater. Same weekly rhythm, different problems on the pad. See Wikipedia's overview of swimming pool sanitation for the chemistry behind it.
Neglected pools, after a home sale or a tenant turnover, get a one-time recovery visit before weekly service starts. That resets the chemistry, filter, and surface so every later visit costs less.
Adams Pool & Spa covers the full lifecycle of pool ownership under one roof. Most Long Beach owners hire us because they don't want to re-vet a new contractor every time something changes.
Water testing, chemical balancing, basket emptying, brushing, vacuuming, and a full equipment walk on every visit. Logged chemistry readings on every stop. Residential homeowners and commercial property managers handled on the same crew.
Diagnostics and fixes for pumps, heaters, filters, salt chlorinators, and automation. Worn shaft seals to failed gas heater ignitors, on residential equipment pads and commercial multi-pump rooms.
Custom pool design, new builds, and full-scope renovations. Jandy and Pentair equipment we also service long-term. Single-family backyards, HOA community pools, and commercial property installs.
Plaster, pebble, quartz, and tile finish restoration on older pools. Backed by the NPT Lifetime Warranty so the new surface outlives the next owner. Residential and commercial scope handled.
Gas heaters, electric heat pumps, and solar systems. Same-week diagnosis, fair quotes, no upsells. Residential systems and commercial high-bather-load setups.
Built-in spas and pool-spa combos get the same chemistry, heater, and jet service as the pool. We don't work on above-ground or portable units.
Four local conditions shorten pool equipment life in Long Beach, and the CDC's Healthy Swimming guidance explains why chemistry control matters most:
Every new Adams Pool & Spa client gets a 30 to 40 minute Pool School session on the first visit. Adam walks you through your pump, filter, heater, and automation.
You learn what each gauge reading means, which sounds are normal, and which ones mean trouble. You also learn what you can check between visits and what we handle.
Customers tell us Adam "explained every piece of equipment" in a way they could understand. Nobody else in Long Beach pool service runs a program like it. Read about our approach.
We don't post Adams Pool & Spa pricing on the website, every pool's a little different. The dollar ranges below are the Long Beach market benchmarks published by independent home-services researchers, not our own rates. Final Adams numbers go on a written quote after the diagnostic.
Most Long Beach companies bill $200 to $370+ per month for weekly service with chemicals included. Larger pools and high-debris yards push above $390. Adams Pool & Spa typically comes in about 20% under that range for the same scope: chemistry, skim, brush, vacuum, baskets, and a full equipment walk on every visit.
Long Beach green-pool restarts and seasonal recoveries usually run $260 to $520 per visit depending on debris load and how long the pool sat. Our recovery visits land roughly 20% below that range. Heavy debris removal, shock and rebalance, and filter deep clean come standard. Follow-up visits priced separately.
Most Long Beach contractors charge $125 to $215 per visit for an on-site diagnostic, and the fee is often non-refundable. We sit about 20% under that range, the fee is flat, and the full amount credits toward the repair if you book the work with us.
Jandy Certified, Pentair Expert Installer, and NPT Lifetime-Warranty Partner. Three accreditations issued by the equipment makers themselves, not self-claims. Warranty claims pass without a fight because the manufacturer sees our install history.
Every voicemail returns within one business day, usually same-day. Pamela logs after-hours messages into the morning dispatch list, so the failure details show up with the truck.
We built the pool next door, repaired the heater two blocks over, and run weekly service down the street. You don't re-vet a contractor every time something breaks.
Every new account gets a 30 to 40 minute Pool School session on the first visit. Adam walks you through your pump, filter, heater, and automation so the gauge readings stop being a mystery.
Adam personally handles every specific-issue diagnostic. Same eyes that have seen 15 years of Long Beach equipment pads. Routine maintenance runs through the trained crew; the calls that matter get the owner.
We've seen how salt air, marine layer, and hard water wear coastal pools differently from inland pools. Belmont Shore corrodes pump seals on a different timeline than Bixby Knolls scales tile lines.
Source: Fixr's swimming pool maintenance cost guide. Adams Pool & Spa is not affiliated with this publisher; the ranges are cited as independent market context.
Equipment failure is the reason most Long Beach pool owners call us the first time. Our 24-hour callback works in four steps.
Pamela answers during business hours and logs after-hours messages into the morning dispatch list.
We return every message within one business day, usually same-day. That's the promise on every voicemail.
For most pumps, heaters, and salt cells, a technician reaches your pool the next business day with the tools to diagnose and quote.
Nothing gets replaced until you see a line-item price. If the fix is minor, we often cover it on the visit.
"I have been using Adam's Pool & Spa Service 2016. He & the people that work for him are great! Very responsible & trustworthy. Adam himself comes out whenever I call with specific issues, which is not very often. I would definitely recommend him!"
"We have used Adam' Pool and Spa since we built our pool 7 years ago. The service has been great and the pool is always clean and sparkling throughout the year."
"I have been a customer of Adams Pool Service for 4yrs. Very professional on time & exceptional service. Couldn't be happier. I would recommend his team to anyone."
"My swimming pools pump stopped working. I was looking for a reliable and honest technician. He showed up on time and within a couple minutes had figured out and corrected the issue."
"It's hard to find a company you can fully trust, but Adam and his team give you real peace of mind."
"Whenever there is an issue there is a technician out at our complex the next day and it gets handled. If you're looking for a new pool guy for your apartments or condo complex I couldn't recommend this company more."
Adams Pool & Spa is based in Long Beach and covers every neighborhood in the city plus surrounding LA County. Our service radius runs roughly 25 miles from 910 E 72nd Street.
Coastal pools in Belmont Shore, Naples Island, and Alamitos Beach see us most for salt-air corrosion and heater replacements. Inland pools in Bixby Knolls, California Heights, and Lakewood Village see us most for weekly chemistry and tile-line care.
Primary service areas: Long Beach · Belmont Shore · Naples Island · Bixby Knolls · Alamitos Beach · Signal Hill · East Long Beach · Bluff Park
Extended service areas: Bellflower · Lakewood · Downey · Paramount · Cypress · Rossmoor · Seal Beach · Los Alamitos · Cerritos · Westminster
Look for manufacturer certifications, not just years of experience. Adams Pool & Spa is Jandy Certified, a Pentair Expert Installer, and an NPT Lifetime Warranty Partner. Those aren't self-claims. They're issued by the companies whose equipment sits on your pad, and they take training, testing, and warranty-claim volume to hold. Ask any pool service to name the manufacturer certifications they hold. If they don't have any, that's the answer.
A 30 to 45 minute visit covering water chemistry testing, chemical dosing, and skimmer basket emptying. We brush tile lines and walls, vacuum the floor, and walk every piece of equipment. You get a chemistry log every visit so you see the readings, not just the bill.
Yes. Most of our Long Beach weekly clients give us gate codes and we work pools while they're at work or out of town. We log the visit, the readings, and any flags on the way out so you know what we found. For commercial clients, we coordinate with property managers directly.
We call back within 24 hours on every voicemail. For equipment failures during business hours, most Long Beach calls get an on-site diagnosis the next business day. We carry common Jandy and Pentair pump parts, heater ignitors, and salt cells on the truck, so a lot of repairs happen on the first visit.
Both. We replace salt cells, calibrate chlorinators, convert chlorine pools to salt, and service standard chlorine systems with liquid or tab sanitizer. The chemistry approach differs; the visit structure doesn't.
In-ground spas and pool-spa combos only. That includes jets, heaters, automation, and resurfacing. We don't work on above-ground or portable hot tubs because the service model is different and the parts availability is different.
We come back at no charge and fix what we missed. That's the deal. We'd rather spend an extra 40 minutes getting a pool right than leave a client wondering whether to call the next company.
Call Adams Pool & Spa to start weekly service, book a repair diagnostic, or walk through a new pool build. We answer Monday through Saturday, 7 AM to 5 PM.
Eighteen terms behind every pool conversation. Each one anchored to its canonical Wikipedia or Wikidata entry so you can verify what we mean before booking.
The combined chemistry and filtration practices that keep pool water clear and safe to swim in. Covers chlorine residual, pH, alkalinity, cyanuric acid, and calcium hardness control.
The most common pool sanitizer, dosed as liquid, tablet, or generated on-site by a salt cell. Free chlorine in the 1 to 3 ppm range keeps a residential pool sanitary.
The acid-base balance of pool water, measured 0 to 14. We hold residential pools between 7.4 and 7.6, where chlorine is most effective and plaster surfaces don't etch.
Generating chlorine on-site by passing pool water across a salt cell. Long Beach pools using salt cells need cell inspection and replacement every 4 to 7 years depending on run time.
A pool filter using #20 silica sand as the filtration medium. Backwashed every 2 to 4 weeks; sand replaced every 5 to 7 years. Common on older Long Beach equipment pads.
A pool filter using replaceable pleated cartridges as the filtration medium. Rinsed quarterly, deep-soaked annually, replaced every 3 to 5 years. The most common modern residential filter.
A pool filter using a powder of fossilized diatoms over fabric grids. The finest filtration of the three common types but the most labor-intensive to service.
A pool pump with a permanent-magnet motor that runs at adjustable speeds. Cuts pool electrical bills by 60 to 80 percent versus single-speed pumps and is required by California Title 24 on new builds.
An electric pool heater that moves heat from the air into pool water. Lower operating cost than gas in mild Long Beach winters; longer warm-up time than gas.
Concrete pneumatically projected at high velocity onto a steel rebar cage. Forms the structural shell of every gunite pool and is the construction method we use on new Long Beach builds.
The interior finish coat on a gunite pool, traditionally white marble plaster. Modern variants include color quartz and pebble aggregate. Lifespan is 8 to 15 years before replastering is needed.
The wall-mounted basket that pulls floating debris off the pool surface before it sinks. Emptied on every weekly cleaning visit.
Photosynthetic organisms that bloom in pool water when sanitizer drops. Green pools, black-spot stains, and yellow-mustard cling are all algae problems we treat with shock chlorination plus algaecide.
Total alkalinity is the buffering capacity of pool water against pH swings. Held between 80 and 120 ppm, it stops chemistry from rising or falling on every dose.
A chlorine stabilizer that protects free chlorine from UV degradation in outdoor pools. Held between 30 and 50 ppm in residential Long Beach pools; over 80 ppm chlorine becomes ineffective.
A robotic, suction-side, or pressure-side cleaner that scrubs the pool floor and walls without manual vacuuming. Robotic units now dominate residential service.
The Pacific-coastal Los Angeles County city where Adams Pool & Spa is based. Long Beach pools share salt-air corrosion patterns, hard-water scaling, and a year-round swim season that drives weekly chemistry cadence.