How Much Does Inground Pool Maintenance Cost in 2026?

 

Do you own an inground swimming pool? If you clicked on this article, I am guessing yes. Owning an inground pool is great for making memories, relaxing, exercising, and just enjoying life. But with any luxury product comes some maintenance.

If there is one thing I know about inground pool owners, it is that they love clean pools. Not everyone has the time and energy to vacuum, brush, and balance their pool every week. We get it. Having your pool taken care of regularly allows you to get the most enjoyment out of it. Enter inground pool maintenance.

At Royal Pools G2 Landscaping, we maintain dozens of inground pools all summer long. Inground pool maintenance is actually fairly simple if you know what you’re doing. It’s even simpler to just have a company do it for you. One of the top inquiries we get from pool owners and prospective pool owners is: How much does pool maintenance cost?

What Determines Inground Pool Maintenance Cost?

The cost of your inground pool maintenance will depend on several factors, including:

• Location
• Size of pool
• Cover type
• Number of gallons of water
• Pool filter type (cartridge, sand, or diatomaceous earth)
• Whether you opt out of having filter cleanings, cover cleanings, openings, closings, etc.

Price Range For Pool Maintenance Packages

The price ranges for an average of 20 weeks of pool maintenance are:

• 1x Weekly Chemical Pool Service
  • Small – medium pool
    • $75 – $90 per week
  • Medium – large pool
    • $85 – $100 per week
• 1x Weekly Chemical/Cleaning Pool Service
  • Small – medium pool
    • $85 – $100 per week
  • Medium – large pool 
    • $105 – $120 per week
• 2x Weekly Pro Service
  • Small – medium pool
    • $110 – $125 per week
  • Medium – large pool
    • $120 – $135 per week

What Are Our Maintenance Packages?

RPG2 currently has three maintenance packages to choose from. All maintenance packages come with built-in discounted openings, closings, mid-season filter cleanings (for cartridge or diatomaceous earth filters), and cover cleanings.

Our specific pool maintenance packages are:

• 1x Weekly Chemical Pool Service
  • Test and treat chemicals to maintain cleanliness, clarity, and balanced water chemistry. Provide chlorine (shock and chlorine tablets) and balancers (pH and alkalinity). The package does not include specialty chemicals (algaecide, clarifier, metal sequestrant, stain remover, salt, etc). Client receives a copy of the water test results.
• 1x Weekly Chemical/Cleaning Pool Service
  • Test and treat chemicals to maintain cleanliness, clarity, and balanced water chemistry. Provide chlorine (shock and chlorine tablets) and balancers (pH and alkalinity). The package does not include specialty chemicals (algaecide, clarifier, metal sequestrant, stain remover, salt, etc). Client receives a copy of the water test results.
  • Brush and vacuum the pool weekly and clean the skimmer baskets.
• 2x Weekly Pro Service
  • One chemical visit.
  • One vacuum and brush visit.
  • Test and treat chemicals to maintain cleanliness, clarity, and balanced water chemistry. Provide chlorine (shock and chlorine tablets), balancers (pH and alkalinity), and specialty chemicals as needed. Client receives a copy of the water test results.
  • Brush and vacuum the pool weekly, clean out skimmer baskets, and clean the filter as needed.

Is Pool Maintenance Worth It?

This is a great question. As previously stated, routine pool maintenance is not hard to complete. You just have to educate yourself on how to properly do everything. It just takes time. If you’re willing to put in the time and effort to learn how your pool works and how to keep it clean and clear, maintenance may not be worth it. 

The most important aspect of pool maintenance is maintaining balanced water chemistry. Balanced water chemistry protects not only you and your swimmers, but the pool and equipment as well. 

As a refresher, balanced pool water chemistry looks like:

• Chlorine/Bromine: 1 – 3 PPM
• pH: 7.2 – 7.8 (7.2 – 7.4 for fiberglass pools)
• Alkalinity:  80 – 120 PPM
• Calcium Hardness: 175 – 350 PPM
• Cyanuric Acid: 0 – 50 PPM

Keeping your pool water balanced is one of the biggest pros of hiring a pool company to maintain your pool. Once you get your pool balanced for the season, it should be easy to keep it maintained as long as you test your water at least once a week.

If your pool has an automatic cover on it and does not take in a lot of debris, you may not need weekly vacuuming. There are several factors. 

Here are some questions to ask yourself that will help determine whether you may need pool maintenance:

• How often do/will I use my pool?
• Is my pool covered?
• Does/will my pool take on a lot of debris?
• How many swimmers will I have every week? (More swimmers means more chemistry adjustments.)
• Do I have the time to clean and balance it myself every week?

Conclusion

There you have it, guys: our inground pool maintenance costs for 2026. Maintaining inground pools is our bread and butter, and we want to be transparent about our prices. If you are interested in inground pool maintenance, fill out our contact form. 

For more educational content on all things pools and landscaping, check out the articles below or feel free to dive into our learning hub at the top of our page. Thanks for reading!

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Written by Logan Edgemon