Pool Repair in Villa Park, CA

Villa Park is the smallest city in Orange County — barely two square miles — and it is almost entirely residential. It incorporated in 1962 to stay that way, and the citrus and walnut groves it grew out of still show in the street pattern and in how little commercial development there is: the Villa Park Town Center at Santiago and Wanda is most of it. The City of Orange wraps around the city on every side, which is why plenty of Villa Park houses carry an Orange mailing address and why people searching for a pool contractor here often start by looking under the wrong city.

Half-acre lots are the rule rather than the exception, and that changes the work more than anything else about Villa Park. The pools are bigger, far more of them have an attached spa, a spillway or a separate water feature, and there is usually room to get material to the back without taking a fence apart. Bigger also means more to go wrong at once: a raised spa, a spillway and a water feature is three sets of plumbing and often more than one pump, and when one part stops working the cause is not always where the symptom shows up. Those are the jobs worth diagnosing properly rather than replacing parts until it comes right.

Two practical things shape a Villa Park job. Most of these pools went in with the houses in the sixties and seventies, right after incorporation, which puts them on their second or third resurface — and what matters at that point is whether the last one went over a shell that should have been cut back first. The other is access. No freeway runs through Villa Park; everything comes in off Santiago, Wanda, Taft or Katella with the 55 as the nearest on-ramp, and the lots that make these pools worth building also mean long private driveways and quiet residential streets. We plan material delivery and demolition haul-off around that instead of working out of a truck parked at the curb.