Licensed & Insured Pool Repair in Fort Myers & Southwest Florida
A pool you cannot heat is a pool you stop using, even in Southwest Florida. When a January cold front drops water temperature into the 60s, a working heater is the difference between swimming season and waiting for March. A&E Pools repairs gas heaters, heat pumps, and solar systems across Fort Myers, Cape Coral, and the rest of Lee and Collier County, and because we are a full-service pool company, the technician who diagnoses your heater understands the whole system it sits in.
Most heater calls we take start the same way: the pool felt colder than the thermostat promised. By the time the water is noticeably cool, the heater has usually been struggling for weeks. Watch for a heater that short cycles on and off, error codes on the display, a unit that runs but never reaches temperature, corrosion or rust streaks on the cabinet, or a heat pump that trips the breaker. Salt air this close to the Gulf is hard on heat exchangers and cabinets, and afternoon storm surges are hard on boards and sensors. None of these symptoms fix themselves.
Fast heat and the right choice for spa owners, but the most component-dense heater type: igniters, sensors, gas valves, and heat exchangers all age at different rates. We diagnose the failed component rather than condemning the unit, and if a heater is beyond sensible repair we say so plainly. If you are weighing repair against a new unit, our guide to choosing a pool heater walks through how gas, heat pump, and solar compare in this climate.
The workhorse of Southwest Florida pools. Common failures here are refrigerant leaks, failed capacitors, corroded evaporator coils from salt air, and control boards damaged by power surges. Most of these are repairable in one visit when caught early.
Panel leaks, failed check valves, and controller faults are the usual suspects. Solar problems often masquerade as plumbing problems, and because we also handle pool leak detection, we can tell you which one you actually have.
Not sure the heater is the problem? Call (239) 888-6617 and describe what the pool is doing, or send us a message and we will tell you honestly whether it needs a repair visit at all.
We start at the equipment pad, not the parts catalog. The technician checks water chemistry first, because scale and corrosive water quietly destroy heat exchangers, then tests the heater through a full call-for-heat cycle to catch the fault in the act. You get a plain explanation of what failed, what it takes to fix it, and whether the age of the unit makes the repair worth it. The same discipline applies across our pool equipment repair work: diagnose first, replace only what failed.
A ten-year-old gas heater with a failing heat exchanger is usually not worth saving; a four-year-old heat pump with a bad capacitor almost always is. We will give you the numbers for both paths and let you decide. If replacement makes more sense, that becomes a pool heating system installation conversation, and financing is available for larger equipment work.
Salt air corrodes cabinets and coils within a few miles of the coast, summer lightning takes out boards and sensors, and unbalanced water scales up heat exchangers from the inside. Two habits extend heater life more than anything else: keeping chemistry in range, which is the core of our weekly pool cleaning service, and running the heater periodically in the off season so seals do not dry out. Pools on saltwater systems need the right heat exchanger materials, something we check on every saltwater repair.
Heaters do not fail in isolation. A weak pump starves a heater of flow and triggers shutdowns that look like heater faults; a mis-programmed automation system can stop a heater from ever getting a call for heat. Because A&E Pools services the entire pad, and backs it with ongoing pool service and maintenance, you get one accountable answer instead of three contractors pointing at each other.
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If the heater reaches temperature but takes longer than it used to, maintenance and a chemistry check often solve it. If it shows error codes, short cycles, trips breakers, or never reaches temperature, a component has failed and it needs a repair visit.
We service the major brands installed across Southwest Florida, including the units we install ourselves. Tell us the brand and model when you call and we will confirm parts availability before the visit.
Most single-component repairs are completed in one visit once parts are in hand. Heat exchanger work and refrigerant repairs can take longer, and we tell you the timeline before any work starts.
From December through February, water temperatures regularly fall below comfortable swimming range even here. A working heater typically adds three to four months of real swimming to the year.
The first cool week of the season is our busiest, and heaters that limped through summer fail on the first cold night. Call A&E Pools at (239) 888-6617 or request a repair visit and swim on your schedule, not the weather’s.
