StretchLearn Course

Build a residential pool maintenance and repair route that holds its margin and is worth owning

A complete beginner workflow for pricing monthly contracts, managing chemicals, packing a dense route, and selling profitable repairs

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Beginner9 hr 35 minSelf PacedRegistered

Course Overview

What this course is designed to develop

This course teaches the contract pricing, water chemistry, route density, and repair upselling that separate a profitable pool route from a tired side hustle. You will set monthly weekly-service prices off your real cost per stop and a target stop margin, then defend that price against the lowball competitor who is quietly losing money. You will learn to balance pH, total alkalinity, calcium hardness, cyanuric acid, and chlorine using the Langelier Saturation Index so your water is correct and your chemical spend drops. You will plan routes by ZIP cluster and drive time so you bill more stops per windshield hour, and you will price the high-margin extras (filter cleans, pump and motor swaps, salt-cell replacement, and green-to-clean jobs) that lift the average account. By the end you can quote a monthly contract in minutes, dose water correctly the first time, run a dense route, and build the repair and recurring revenue that makes the business worth owning.

Learning Outcomes

What the learner should be able to understand, build, or execute.

Price residential weekly-service contracts off your true cost per stop and a target margin instead of matching competitors

Balance pool water using the Langelier Saturation Index to keep water correct and cut chemical waste

Design a geographically dense route that raises billable stops per day and lowers cost per stop

Diagnose and price common equipment repairs including pump, filter, heater, and salt-cell work

Quote and execute a green-to-clean recovery as a high-margin one-time job and a recurring-account on-ramp

Track the route metrics (stops per day, revenue per stop, churn, chemical cost per pool) that drive profit

Curriculum Preview

Inside the curriculum: a structured path from fundamentals to execution.

Preview the course structure, see how the modules build on one another, and understand the path this program is designed to take you through.

Module 1

Module 1: The Pool Route Business and the Weekly Service Visit

Understand how a pool route actually makes money, set up the kit and chemicals that let you service any residential pool, and learn the repeatable weekly visit that protects both the water and your time. The route model sets your pricing, your scheduling, and your ceiling, so this comes before everything else.

3 lessons

Why the route is the assetContent · 45 min

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Your truck, tools, and chemical kitContent · 45 min

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The repeatable weekly service visitContent · 50 min

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Module 2

Module 2: Water Chemistry and Chemical Cost Control

Master the five numbers that define balanced water, learn to dose them correctly the first time using the Langelier Saturation Index, and turn that accuracy into lower chemical spend. This module is where techs stop guessing, stop damaging surfaces, and stop pouring profit into the pool.

3 lessons

The five numbers of balanced waterContent · 50 min

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Dosing right the first time with the LSIContent · 50 min

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Chemical cost per pool and safe handlingContent · 45 min

LMS Access

Module 3

Module 3: Pricing Monthly Contracts and Building Route Density

Price weekly-service contracts off your true cost per stop so every account clears a margin, then pack those accounts into a dense geographic route that lifts billable stops per day. This is where most pool techs stop leaving money on the table.

3 lessons

Pricing the monthly service contractContent · 50 min

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Route density and stops per dayContent · 50 min

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Billing, retention, and the right softwareContent · 45 min

LMS Access

Module 4

Module 4: Repairs, Green-Pool Recovery, and Scaling the Route

Add the high-margin equipment repairs and green-pool recoveries that lift the average account, then plan the move from solo tech to a business with employees and multiple trucks. Maintenance fills the calendar; repairs and recoveries grow the income.

3 lessons

Equipment repair as the profit engineContent · 50 min

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Green-to-clean recovery jobsContent · 50 min

LMS Access

Hiring, more trucks, and the path beyond soloContent · 45 min

LMS Access

Built for Application

A complete learning path, not a one-off inspiration hit.

This program is designed around progression: focused lessons, structured modules, applied resources, assessments, and a course rhythm that turns information into usable capability.

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