Weekly Pool Maintenance Checklist

A weekly pool sheet is the one piece of paper a service tech (or a hands-on pool owner) carries on every visit: the standard routine in the right order, a place to record the water-test readings, and a sign-off so nothing gets skipped and the numbers land in the customer’s record. This generator builds one clean, one-page weekly pool-service sheet in your browser — no signup, no email wall, nothing saved to a server.

The routine, in service order

The checklist is pre-seeded with the standard 11-step weekly routine, in the order a tech actually works it: skim, empty the skimmer and pump baskets, brush, vacuum, check filter pressure and backwash if needed, check the water level, inspect the equipment, test the water, dose per the test, and add weekly extras like shock, clarifier, or algaecide. Every row is editable — rename it, remove it, or add your own — and each row has a checkbox and an optional note.

Target ranges printed next to every reading

This is the part most free pool checklists leave out. The water-test grid prints a target-range column beside each reading, so the sheet alone tells you whether a number is in or out of spec:

• pH 7.4–7.6
• Free chlorine 1.0–3.0 ppm
• Total alkalinity 80–120 ppm
• Cyanuric acid (stabilizer) 30–50 ppm
• Calcium hardness 200–400 ppm

These are typical target ranges, not a compliance standard — follow your test kit and local rules. Set the sanitizer to Salt and a Salt row appears, printed “per system” (no numeric band ships here, since salt targets vary by manufacturer). On screen, a filled numeric reading shows an “in range” / “out of range” hint so you can eyeball an out-of-spec number; it never prints as a verdict.

It records doses — it does not compute them

There is a Dose added column so you can write down what you put in. The sheet never calculates a dose for you. The optional volume field (gallons or liters) is captured only so you can do the dosing math by hand — nothing here derives a dose from it. To compute a dose, use the pool chemical dosing calculator or the pool alkalinity calculator; for the laminated reference, see the pool water chemistry log.

One visit, or a month on one sheet

Keep the default single-visit layout for one full page per visit, or switch to Month grid to log a 4–5 week month of visits per pool on one sheet. Either way it is all client-side: fill it in your browser, then print or save a PDF. A fully blank sheet — with the target ranges already on it — prints cleanly for hand-fill on a clipboard.

The sign-off is your proof of service

The signature and date at the foot of the sheet are the point of carrying it: they record who did the work and when, so the customer leaves with a per-visit receipt and you keep dated evidence the stop actually happened. Print two — one stays with the customer (their pool binder or a folder at the equipment pad), one rides back in your route file. For the weekly cadence that drives the whole route, pair it with a recurring service schedule; for the season’s one-off visits, the pool opening & closing checklist covers open and close.

What it is — and isn’t

Nothing you enter is saved. The logo, the readings, and the checkboxes live only in your browser for this one session and are gone when you reload. There is no saved customer or pool database, no dosing engine, no per-tech state, and no cross-session readings history — that is full field-service-management territory.

This is a weekly service-routine and readings sheet, not a dosing calculator or a health-department inspection log. The signature line records the work performed on one visit; it is not a compliance record.