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Hotel Resort at Sunrise

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Expert Swimming Pool
Maintenance

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Keep your pool sparkling with our weekly and one-time cleaning services.

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Relax and truly enjoy your pool this summer. Leave the opening, closing and maintenance to The Pool Chemist team.

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Make your gunnite or concrete pool the valuable investment it should be with new waterline tile, coping, and a new plaster surface

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Welcome to The Pool Chemist

Crystal Clear Pools, Expertly Maintained

Call The Pool Chemist for gunite inground pools and professional pool service in Ulster County, Dutchess County, Columbia County, Greene County, Orange County, NY and throughout the Hudson Valley.

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Years of Experience

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About us

Why Choose The Pool Chemist?

With over a decade of experience, The Pool Chemist is dedicated to delivering reliable, science-backed pool care. We combine expert knowledge with friendly service to ensure your pool is always ready for a dip.

The Pool Chemist has been serving the pool needs of the Hudson Valley and beyond since 1977, including swimming pool services in West Shokan, NY. Trust the company with a long history of providing professional pool installation and pool maintenance in the Hudson Valley. Contact us for installation, service, eco-friendly solutions, and energy-saving options. Now specializing in the installation of inground gunite pools.

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Gunite Pools

Introducing gunite pools by The Pool Chemist. Our pools are built tough and customized to fit your style. With unmatched durability and options, they're more than just a luxury—they're an investment in your home, including swimming pool solutions in West Shokan, NY. Dive into quality with The Pool Chemist's gunite pools today.

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Let’s Build Your Dream Pool
Designed Just for Your Backyard and Lifestyle

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Why Choose Us

Keep your water clean without damaging the environment

Select an eco-friendly pool sanitation system that you can feel good about operating from The Pool Chemist. Cut chlorine use to practically nothing!

Energy-saving, variable-speed smart pumps

Ask us about our variable-speed smart pumps that can dramatically reduce energy consumption and, at the same time, reduce pump noise to a practically imperceptible level.

 

Choose an energy-efficient heat pump.
Save 80% on fuel costs compared to a propane heater.
Don't make the wrong decision for your pool. Let us work with you to find the right option to reduce your energy costs while also keeping your pool ready for you to dive right into it.

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Testimonials

What Our Client Says

We hired JHS Services/The Pool Chemist to build our 20 by 40 in-ground vinyl liner pool and consider ourselves lucky that we did.


There was only one location that suited us to build the pool which proved to be sandy soils with moving water. Lucky for us this company has seasoned veterans experienced with handling adverse conditions and on the spot engineering mind and 35 years' experience putting in pools in “impossible” places was aboard.


The process involved somehow building the deep end walls with masonry block, running pumps and crew placing gravel quickly as the blocks went up staying ahead of the water flow and stopping it as it went up.


The best part of this experience is that process that could easily have broken the bank was done so skillfully and efficiently that I knew I was getting a bargain.


The pool concept that was offered for my property looks very good, like a high-end black plaster gunite pool. The liner is a dark granite color that looks like plaster with no fake vinyl print tile. I have a bluestone overhanging coping with a bull nose and steps that run the length of the shallow end with a widened first step for a sun bench.

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Russell Kelly
Smith Lane
Accord, NY 12404

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What Our Client Says

John's company began pool services for us in 2002. Since then he and his service crew have provided excellent maintenance and repair work for the pool and all of its equipment. This has been of great value to us because for the past six years we have been renting our home out to weekend and summer tenants while we live in our second home in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. My tanants have been very pleased with the pool maintenance and timely attention to their emergency needs, from heater repairs to finding and repairing sudden massive leaks in the underground plumbing.

 

John wanted me to mention the fact that his key employee Tom Hidaka built my swimming pool man years ago when he was a partner in another local pool company.

 

We were encouraged, during what turned out to be difficult site conditions, by Tom's mastery of the situation and was able to handle challenges in a way that had a lot less financial impact to us than feared they might. We found Tom to be a very personable and caring individual who inspired confidence with us and his crew as well.

 

Sincerely,

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Morgan and Wendy Turner

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What Our Client Says

I am writing this testimonial in support of John Shively, who is nearly complete the work on a gunite pool project at my home in Woodstock, NY.

 

I have been working with John for over a year on this project and on John's behalf, I am pleased to note the following about his performance on our pool project:

 

  • Despite the pandemic, massive supply chain disruptions, and a labor shortage, John planned and secured supplies, obtained permits, and scheduled the work in record time.

  • John has excellent crews that are skilled, knowledgeable, efficient, and mindful in their work practices.

  • John and his team began construction in the fall and were able to complete the concrete shell and plumbing, making the pool ready for a quick finish in the spring.

  • Completion of the main portion of the project (to gunite shell) was completed well within proposed and promised timelines, despite the fact that the site on my land contained worse than feared solid rock from depths starting at just two feet below the surface and also contained severe ground water conditions; John's team approached these conditions with impressive skill and control.

  • On a personal level, I'd also like to note that John is a respectable yet affable person who is a true professional (as are the members of his crew). He clearly takes pride in his work and throughout the project, I've always found John to be straightforward, easy to plan and problem solve with, and immensely reasonable and fair.

 

Given the above, I recommend John highly and without the slightest reservation.

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Marc Cohen, MD
Woodstock, NY

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What Our Client Says

I had tried to find a pool company to repair and paint my in-ground concrete pool (built in 1965) for many years. My regular pool maintenance company said they don’t do that. I found someone who had the pool sandblasted and painted but within a few months the paint peeled. They did it all over again, said they used the best quality pool paint but it peeled within months.

 

I was ready to give up when I called John Shively of JHS Services Inc.. He came right over, told me what could be done. He found severely damaged concrete beneath the patchwork done by the prior pool maintenance folks, found the inlet and outlet pipes in poor condition. He provided an estimate. Gave me choices. Did the repairs, replaced the pipes and, instead of paint, used plaster, colored to our specification to resurface the whole pool and put natural appearing tiles for the top foot of the pool. He said this combination would last many years and he guarantees his work. He also serviced and repaired the pool heater and saline chlorinator. All done on time and on budget.

 

I have been using the pool since his restoration and it is fantastic. Aside from looking like a new pool, I could feel the difference I the smooth, even pool walls. His work was of the highest quality I am a surgeon and Mr. Shively’s attention to detail and perfectionism reminds me of what I strive for in the operating room.

 

I give him and his company my highest recommendation.

 

Sincerely,

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Marc Goldstein, MD, DSc (hon), FACS

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Contact us

Send us a message below or call us at 845-334-1332. We look forward to speaking with you!

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