For boards, property managers and pool companies

A capital plan for every pool you own.

Hydro Monitor turns a walk through your plant room into a five-year budget. Every pump, filter, heater and controller is on the list with its age, condition and a replacement window you can defend in a board meeting.

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A commercial pool plant room: two regenerative media filters, a controls wall with chemistry controllers and variable-speed drives — A three-pool plant room in Northern Virginia. Thirty-one assets, two of them past their service interval, none of it in the budget until we walked it.

Most pools are budgeted from the last invoice.

The service company knows the equipment. The board knows the bank balance. Nobody has the two on one page, so a heater that everyone could see was tired still shows up as an emergency, at emergency prices, in the month nobody planned for.

Reserve studies are supposed to fix this and mostly don’t, because the pool line is written by someone who never opened the equipment room door. We did. We photograph every nameplate, rate every unit, and keep the plan current between visits.

What the plan gives you

Twelve months, three years, five years

Dollar ranges by year and by pool, with the reasoning behind every line. Not a number that appeared from a spreadsheet, a number you can explain.

A reserve figure you can defend

The annual contribution that funds replacement at end of life, and how funded you are today against the next three years.

Proposals from deficiencies

For service companies: a completed inspection becomes a priced proposal under your own brand, using rates only you can see.

What it looked like for a three-pool swim school.

One afternoon in the plant room. One hundred and ninety photographs. Thirty-one assets on the plan, with the two that needed money this quarter at the top.

Figures rounded. Replacement bands are planning estimates, not quotes.

Capital requirementlow – high

Next 12 months$12,600 – $23,500

Three years$44,800 – $94,000

Five years$51,800 – $110,000

Annual reserve at expected life$18,000 / yr

Largest itemswindow

UV lamp set, 64,000 run-hoursnow · $1,500 – $2,200

Chemistry controllers ×3, 20172026 – 27 · $10,500 – $19,500

Gas heaters ×2, 20172028 · $12,000 – $28,000

Boards and HOAs

Twelve states require reserve studies. Hand your analyst the pool component list with real install dates, condition and replacement cost, or use the report on its own at budget time.

Property managers

One view across every property you manage: what each one needs this year, over three, over five. Fewer surprise calls from the site.

Pool service companies

Walk the room, rate the equipment, and leave with a branded assessment and a priced proposal. Your labor rates and markups stay in a vault only you can read.

Start with one plant room.

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