Heater working harder for less, or a salt cell that keeps giving up? Lakeway opened in 1963, so some of these pools are genuinely old, and the water here runs between nine and thirteen grains depending on which utility serves your street.
Almost nobody reads this page for fun. Something has stopped working the way it used to. Here's the pattern on an older Lakeway pool, and what each one normally comes down to.
Age explains part of it. The ground explains the rest. Lakeway has been here since 1963, which makes it by far the oldest community we serve.
The original numbered sections were platted in order, so the low numbers hold some genuinely old pools, and plenty of them have been looked after by several different companies over the years. It's Travis County, and close to the western edge of our route.
Text us a photo of what you're seeing. If it's something simple, we'll tell you straight away. If it needs a proper look, we'll tell you that too, and what it'll cost.
Text Us What's HappeningLakeway City Park is sixty-four lakefront acres with trails, courts and beach access, and it's one of the few places in the city where the streets actually meet the water rather than looking down at it.
It sits toward the middle of our Lakeway route. From the park we're minutes from the original numbered sections, a short run up Lakeway Boulevard to the Live Oak and Yaupon courses at the Clubs of Lakeway, and across Lohmans Crossing Road toward North Lakeway Village and the Activity Center. Flintrock Falls, The Hills and Rough Hollow sit further west.
Naming the park is useful because Lakeway is genuinely hard to navigate by street name. Almost everyone here gives directions by which club, creek or park they're near, and so do we.
We're based near the intersection at Red Bud Lane and Forest Creek Dr in Round Rock. Lakeway is about thirty and a half miles south and west, roughly forty-five minutes. We take SH-45 across then RM 620 south around the lake, which avoids Austin traffic entirely.
RM 620 is the spine and everything hangs off it. Lakeway Boulevard climbs into the original sections and the golf courses. Lohmans Crossing Road covers North Lakeway Village and the middle of the city. Highlands Boulevard runs west toward Lakeway Highlands and Rough Hollow, and Bee Creek Road drops south toward Bee Cave and Highway 71.
The traffic worth planning around is RM 620 itself, which backs up badly near the 620 and 71 junction at rush hour. We run Lakeway mid-morning or early afternoon for exactly that reason, and we group it with our northwest Austin stops since they sit on the same side of the lake.
On a pool that went in decades ago we're often looking at original plumbing runs, first or second generation equipment, older bonding and lighting, and sometimes a decade of patches from different companies who each solved one thing. We map what's actually there before recommending anything, because on this kind of pad the wrong assumption is expensive.
The water does its part too: at an average of about 11.4 grains per gallon, scale is the single most common reason a Lakeway heater underperforms and a Lakeway salt cell dies early. Most jobs start with a $149 Repair Diagnostic. You pay $74.50 when you book to cover that visit. If you approve the repair, that $74.50 comes right off your bill, so the diagnostic costs you nothing.
An original numbered section or a newer Rough Hollow street, we'll tell you what the equipment really has left and walk you through the options before any work starts.
$149
We come out, find what's actually wrong, and give you a written price before any work starts.
Book Repair Diagnostic$99
A deep clean for a cell that has stopped producing on hard water.
Book Salt Cell Cleaning$249/month
Skim, brush, vacuum, chemistry and an equipment check every week.
Book Weekly CleaningNot sure which one you need? Send a photo of the water and we'll say which one this actually calls for.
Lakeway is split between two water utilities, and which one serves your street genuinely matters. Most of the city is on Travis County WCID 17, which does publish its numbers: hardness averaging 193.9 parts per million across a range of 153.9 to 222.3, which the district itself states as nine to thirteen grains per gallon with an average of 11.4. The rest is served by Lakeway MUD, whose report doesn't publish a hardness figure at all.
So a neighbor a few streets away can genuinely be dosing different water. On the WCID 17 side, 11.4 grains is enough to be rough on a heater, plate over a salt cell and mark a tile line if nobody is watching the balance. Tell us your street and we'll tell you which utility you're on.
The ground here's different from the rest of the lake. Lakeway sits on Volente silty clay loam and Lewisville, deep soils rather than the thin rock over limestone at Lago Vista and Jonestown, on gentler slopes of one to eight percent. Access is easier here than anywhere else on this lake.
Mature live oaks and a managed deer herd mean the work here never really stops.
Late winter. The heavy one. Live oaks drop leaves and catkins in February and March rather than autumn, and it's a genuine volume of debris on an old pool with an old filter.
Summer. Hard use and hard water together. At 11.4 grains the tile line starts marking, and a heater already scaled from spring struggles.
Keep service going through winter, or text us and we'll tell you what your pool needs this month.
78734 and 78738, from the 1960s streets to the newest building on the west side.
The numbered sections, platted in order from the 1963 opening onward. The low numbers are the oldest streets in the city and hold some of its oldest pools.
Live Oak and Yaupon at the Clubs of Lakeway, plus Flintrock Falls and The Hills with their Nicklaus courses. St Andrews and Arbolago sit in this part of town.
The newer phases on the west side off Highlands Boulevard, with newer pools, newer equipment and the Rough Hollow marina below them.
Between the original city and RM 620, near the Lakeway Activity Center and the Lake Travis Community Library.
The streets running down to Lakeway City Park, sixty-four lakefront acres with trails and beach access, and the Hurst Creek and Hamilton Greenbelt corridors.
Text us your street and we'll confirm, including which of the two water utilities serves you.
Text Your NeighborhoodLakeway life runs around the lake, four golf courses and the Activity Center, and the city has been lived in long enough that most of these pools have real history behind them. You don't need to be here. We give you an arrival window, let you know when we're on the way, and text you afterwards with what we found and anything worth watching.
Real openings on our schedule. Pick a date and a window, and switch the service at the top if you need something different.
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We could cover all of Central Texas. We'd rather cover a smaller area and know it, and Lakeway is where that turns into a question nobody else asks: which utility is your street on.
Nothing gets done until you've seen the number and said yes. And if what your pool needs is a warranty part the manufacturer should be covering, we'll tell you, even if it means we don't get to do the work.
How We Got StartedWe group Lakeway with our northwest Austin stops, since they sit on the same side of the lake, and reach Lago Vista around the north shore.
Text us your street and what's going on. We'll tell you which utility you're on and what the pool needs.
