Kool Bear’s Pool and Spa

Amazing Service and all around great experience, I met Larry through a mutual friend and he has been servicing our pool for over 2 years. He keeps our pool looking beautiful and is always so friendly. He gave me a great recommendation on a variable speed pool pump and we went ahead and installed. WOW we saw a huge decrease in our electrical bill.
Larry is a straight shooter and always has a smile on his face. He really enjoys what he does for a living and i would recommend him to all my family and friends. You wont be disappointed and if you want your pool looking crystal blue he is the guy!
Kool Bear Pools get 5 stars

Kool Bear Pools serviced the pool at our apartment complex for several years and it looked fantastic and we enjoyed it very much. But then we got a new management company and they changed to a different service. What a horrible decision! The pool began looking dirty and cloudy. I wan’t looking forward to summer because I was NOT going into a pool that was not properly serviced.
Fortunately, the management company saw that the pool was not being maintained and hired Kool Bear back. We could not be happier! The tech that services our pool is very professional and knows what he’s doing! Now the pool is back to looking spectacular and we can’t wait for summer!
Great service!

The folks at Kool Bear do a great job keeping our pool sparkling clean at a very reasonable price.

I popped in here to learn about doing my own pool and they were very helpful and the products were reasonable. I found they took the time and were detailed about what i needed to do.
I priced some of the products on Coscto on line and found they weren’t too much higher so I feel they were fairly priced.
I would use them again.

Larry Bickelmeyer is the owner and has been around a long time as a pool tech; however, you do not get Larry servicing your pool on a weekly basis. Larry comes only if you complain or have a mechanical malfunction like a pool sweep problem or a pump motor, etc. What you get is a sub contractor or trainee who come to your house each week. I had 3 different guys in 3 years. I demanded the first two be replaced as they did nothing to help my issue and I truly believe I know as much as they did about pools. One even brought his girlfriend who was learning «the business.»
We hired Larry during our renovation of our pool. He was not involved with the remodel, it was done by a pool contractor. We had our pool done in a dark gray plaster and all the tiles on the water line, dam wall and spa are very expensive mosaic glass. Our pool soon became a calcified cement pond. I continually complained to the pool techs who came by each week and to Larry. Larry blames the water from the main line, the plaster, etc. etc. etc. Apparently, he and his bunch of trainees are blameless in his mind.
My neighbor remodeled his pool with dark gray plaster and new tiles about the same time as mine and his pool to this day has not one speck of calcium. My pool looks like a zebra with all the white crap, my beautiful tiles are laden with calcium! The blue tiled spillway from the Spa to the pool is almost solid white! I had 2 pool experts come and take water samples from the main line and the pool and they were astounded at the horrible condition of my pool and each said «…it could have been avoided.» We recently returned from a two week trip to Hawaii and found the pool full of algae. Larry’s trainee didn’t put enough chlorine in the water while we were gone, who knows if he even showed up? My 6 year old granddaughter said when she saw the pool «…it looks like the ocean» and it did!
I could not get Larry to do anything that helped the calcium or to spend any time really cleaning it. Oh, he tried in a little spot here and there and tried a bunch of cleaners to no avail. He told me I should clean it! We even drained the pool twice, which is a pain. I don’t think I needed to go through all this stuff!
Long story short I paid a lot of money to remodel the pool and now I am paying over $ 1,000 to have the 3 year old plaster acid bathed to rid it of the massive calcium and the tiles must be blasted to get off all the calcium on the mosaic tiles. When you run your hand over the plaster it feels like 300 grit sandpaper! I am left «holding the bag» so to speak. I am very very sorry I used Kool Bear. I never got an apology for ruining my plaster and tile and making my pool look like no one ever cleans it or cares for it, only finger pointing by Larry at every one but Kool Bear. Hire at your own risk.

Larry Bickelmeyer & his staff have been servicing our pool for the past 5 years, and we would never consider replacing him! Larry led teh team that re-​plastered & tiled the pool, converted us from chlorinated to salt water, oversaw the installation of our solar heaters and babysat the pool while we renovated our house.
Larry’s personal involvement in our pool ensure’s that we have the greatest pool in Manhattan Beach!