Deck cracking, or equipment that has visibly moved since it was installed? Manor sits on Houston Black clay, which shrinks and swells more than any soil we work on, and most of these pools are new enough that the ground is still settling around them.
Most people find this page after something out back stopped behaving. These are the ones we get called out for most in Manor.
All of it traces back to what the houses are built on. Manor sits at about 528 feet on Houston Black clay, the lowest and the most active ground anywhere on our route. Houston Black swells when it's wet and shrinks when it's dry, and it moves more than any soil we work on. Nearly everything below traces back to that, or to how new most of these pools are.
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 a Photo of Your PoolShadowGlen is the anchor of pool-owning Manor. The golf course sets the layout, and a lot of the pools back onto it. It has been building continuously since 2003, so it's both the oldest and the newest part of town depending which street you're on.
The rest of Manor tells the same story faster: there's almost no pre-2000 pool stock in this town. That's unusual for our service area, and it changes what goes wrong.
From our base near Forest Creek we come down through Pflugerville and across, or take SH 130 south and cut in on US 290. Which one is faster depends entirely on the time of day. ShadowGlen and Presidential Meadows come easiest off Gregg Lane; Stonewater, Lagos and Manor Heights we reach from US 290 and FM 973.
Twenty-two minutes, fifteen miles. We run Manor with Pflugerville on the same southern route, which is what makes a same-week slot realistic here.
Some of what we cover here's inside Manor city limits and some of it's technically Austin, which is the sort of thing that trips up anyone working from a map instead of a route.
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. If you decide not to move forward, we charge the remaining $74.50.
Pumps, heaters, filters, salt systems, timers, lights and plumbing. In Manor we check the pad and the pipe runs early, because on ground this active a part often fails as a consequence of something having moved rather than on its own.
$149
We come out, find what's actually wrong, and give you a written price before any work starts.
Book Repair Diagnostic$249/month
Skim, brush, vacuum, chemistry and an equipment check every week.
Book Weekly Cleaning$129
A single visit to get it swimmable again, with nothing ongoing afterwards.
Book One-Time CleanSend a photo of the water and we'll tell you which one this needs.
Manor's water depends on who supplies your street. Manville Water Supply Corporation's own 2025 report puts total hardness anywhere from 39.7 to 346 parts per million, roughly 2 to 20 grains per gallon, which is one of the widest published ranges we work with. The City of Manor blends its own Colorado Alluvium wells with purchased water, so it varies too. So we test your water and work from what's actually in it.
We don't have one tidy hardness number for Manor, because the utility doesn't publish one and the real range is too wide for an average to help you. Third-party water sites do quote a single figure for Manville; it doesn't appear anywhere in Manville's own report.
The ground is the more interesting half. Manor sits on Houston Black, the classic blackland prairie clay, with Heiden alongside it. Houston Black has one of the highest shrink-swell ratings of any soil in Texas: it expands when it takes on water and contracts hard when it dries out.
Over a dry August into a wet October, that movement is what cracks a deck, tilts an equipment pad and pulls a rigid pipe run out of true. It's not a construction fault, it's the ground doing what it does, and it's the single most useful thing to understand about owning a pool in Manor.
Summer. Flat, open and treeless, with nothing anywhere to slow evaporation or shade the water. Chlorine burns off faster than the label allows and the water line drops enough to notice week to week. This is when the ground is also at its driest and most shrunken.
Autumn. The season that does the damage here, and almost nobody expects it. The first real rain after a dry summer makes Houston Black clay swell fast, and that's when decks crack and pads tilt. If something has moved, this is when you find out.
Start weekly service for the season, or text us and we'll tell you what your pool needs this month.
Travis County plat records tell you almost everything about Manor: this is a town built after 2000.
Building since 2003 and still going. The golf course community, and the heart of pool-owning Manor.
The largest, and the newest, built out from 2021. New pools, and ground still settling around them.
Three linked developments built from 2004 onward. Most of Manor's mid-2000s pool stock sits here.
From 2005 and 2018 respectively, off the US 290 side.
Lagos from 2018, Bellingham Meadows from 2014. Two of the newer corners of Manor. Tell us the make and model on yours and we'll check what's still covered.
Carriage Hills from 2005, and the Heritage Point and Saddle Ridge sections of Wildhorse Ranch from 2017 onward.
Text Us About Your PoolManor commutes, mostly west into Austin or over to the SH 130 corridor, and nobody wants to plan their day around a pool visit. You don't need to be home. You get an arrival window, a text when we're on the way, and a text afterwards with what we found.
Real openings on our schedule. The diagnostic is preselected because on ground this active the cause is usually not the obvious part.
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Manor is the newest pool stock and the most active ground on our route, and those two facts explain most of what we get called out for. We run it with Pflugerville on the same southern route, so it's a scheduled stop rather than a special trip, and we would rather tell you the ground moved than sell you a pump that was never the problem.
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.
Manor shares a run with Pflugerville, Round Rock and Hutto, so we're out this way regularly.
Text us what's going on. We'll tell you what we think is going on and when we can get out to you.
