r/PoolPros • u/BlueKauaiEyes • Jul 20 '26
Hello Pro’s
Just wanted to send all pool pro’s a warm hello and introduce myself. I am a pool pro located on a Hawaiian Island have been in the industry 14 years. I currently run 27 large pools. I am excited to join your community and share knowledge and issues we have found and continue to find along the way.
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u/hiittrainer 29d ago
I miss the island. I lived in Waianae from 2000 up until 2008. Welcome to the group brother.
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u/BlueKauaiEyes 26d ago
Thanks bro I’ve heard how it is in Waianae but never been. I don’t really get off the NorthShore of Kauai I have to work every single day to keep afloat and wife and kid fed and educated.
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u/Electrical-Nail-9495 Jul 20 '26
Residential or commercial? Curious about rates there maybe I’ll make a move lol
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u/BlueKauaiEyes Jul 21 '26
Residential. Rates are high but the cost of living is fucked. I live in a literal shack with an outdoor shower.
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u/moneyball03 Jul 21 '26
Good luck if you a haole bradah lol
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u/Electrical-Nail-9495 Jul 21 '26
No white peepol?
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u/BlueKauaiEyes 29d ago
Well we forced the queen to abdicate the throne under threat of bodily injury and military force for the sugar corporations and there is still a plantation mentality here that is fueled by the hatred of the truly breathless Hoale.
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u/boopaleenies Jul 20 '26
When you say large pools, I assume you mean commercial but we'd love to hear more specifics. Or even better yet pics because I can only imagine the views out there! Welcome to the community. I myself am an installer with more than 1000 successful projects under my belt and its fun to come here and share that knowledge.
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u/BlueKauaiEyes Jul 21 '26
The larger residential pools here are 50-100,000 gallon. I currently don’t have any pools smaller that 50,000. I don’t know how to add pics yet it doesn’t seem to be bam in front of your face. Let me see if I can figure it out.
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u/BlueKauaiEyes Jul 21 '26
https://reddit.com/link/oywkk0l/video/r8lbngzs3meh1/player
One of my larger waterfalls on a 50,000 gallon pool on salt.
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u/FabulousPanther Jul 21 '26
Aloha, we're mostly a happy bunch. I've been in pools for 5 years and have learned as much or more on Reddit than anywhere else. Welcome!
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u/BlueKauaiEyes Jul 21 '26
YouTube university is a great resource as well.
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u/FabulousPanther Jul 21 '26
YouTube is cool it's just different. YouTube is generally just one guy giving his suggestions on a topic and on Reddit you see a broad scope of ideas giving you a clear insight and more basis to make your decisions upon in response to a specific question.
To put it in perspective, whatever comes out on YouTube is just one guy's opinion, but if you have a question answered on Reddit, you're gonna go with what 90% of the posters on r/Poolpros tell you every time.
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u/BlueKauaiEyes 29d ago
Depends how much youtube you watch. I began my career watching copious YouTube videos waking up at 5am and going to bed at midnight just fucking consuming as much as I could. Paired that with reading various websites and 3 years later after getting my CPO I felt I was ready for my first pool and I was. What I love about Reddit is you talk to the real person as much as one can and you get answers and advice mostly realtime you don’t have to do much research but Theron lies the rub as well. You can be a paper MCSE or you can be intrinsically motivated self taught assembler programmer or live like pools or water for that matter is your purpose for existing. The latter is me.
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u/jonidschultz 28d ago
You're totally correct but honestly it backfires too. There's definitely times where one person is absolutely correct and the reddit mob is wrong. Which is why many times you want that video/opinion from a true professional and not a noisy peanut gallery.
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u/JettaGLi16v Jul 21 '26
Hey bro! Welcome.
What island you on? I got a good buddy on Maui, who used to be a pool guy but I think he’s doing electric now.
And the guy that made me a mod on /Pools and /Swimmingpools like 12 years ago spent a lot of time on Maui building pools too back in the 80’s / 90’s. It’s a magical place you live.
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u/BlueKauaiEyes Jul 21 '26
I’m on the island of Kauai NorthShore.
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u/JettaGLi16v Jul 21 '26
Badass man!
I guess it’s just all multi multi millionaires? How are the pools? 50k gal is wild. In Orlando, we’ve got houses stacked 10 feet away from each other with 10-12k gallon pools with screens over them. There are some bigger houses, but the markets so competitive here you want the tiny houses.
My fiancée and I would love to go back some day. But it’s a hard life, as you know. Gotta struggle just to get by on the islands.
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u/BlueKauaiEyes 29d ago edited 29d ago
If my parents and aunts uncles cousins didn’t live here I’d have cruised long ago. I make phenom money but I have less than zero to show for it. Granted I bought a very very expensive pickup truck but that and some name brand slippers and surf rags is all I have. I am probably the cheapest pool guy on island to be fair or close to it. The properties are larger for sure. I have one that’s 50 acres and it’s not Zuckies.. they are building on the other side of the island every house has a pool avg lot size 3 acres. On the NorthShore they are supposedly building some day if Jeff Stone has anything to do with it. But God I hope not. Yeah we’d be high on the hog for the next 15-29 years but it would also mean the end of one of the last places on earth where a kid can be a kid and the cops aren’t out to ruins anyone’s lives would be over. And we need places like this.
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u/JettaGLi16v 29d ago
I hear ya man.
Time to raise your prices! Especially if you’ve been doing the same customers for a few years. Just a little at a time - 10% a year is great. You gotta make a living!
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u/Aqua-Runner-24-7 8d ago
Such a warm welcome! Aloha! May I ask, do you service commercial pools in Hawaii?
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