
Aquadam Pool Services
5.0★ rating · 25 Google reviews
83/100 score
Oakville · Pool Repair
Monday: Closed
- Says it is licensed
- Says it is a member of the Pool & Hot Tub Council of Canada
Last updated:By The Pool Trade Desk

Chemicals are the cost that repeats every few weeks. Pumps, filters and heaters are the ones that arrive all at once, usually without warning. Researched pricing puts season of pool chemicals (chlorine, pH, alkalinity, shock, test kit) at $250 to $500 per year (CAD), per John C Young Design (Ontario), and chlorine for the season at $150 to $300 per year (CAD), per John C Young Design (Ontario). Each row in the table below names its own source, and prices are quoted before tax unless the row says otherwise.
The table
This range rests on 9 independent published sources, and every row below names the one its own figure came from. Where two sources disagree they stay in the table as two rows with two labels; nothing here is an average of the two, and no range was widened to cover a gap.
Canadian dollars, researched August 2026, one named Ontario source per row. Ontario HST sits on top of every figure unless the row says otherwise.
Season of pool chemicals (chlorine, pH, alkalinity, shock, test kit)
Chlorine for the season
Salt system chemicals for the season
Annual chemical and test-kit spend on a chlorine pool
pH increaser and decreaser, retail (pH plus 2 kg $15.99, pH minus 8 kg $54.98)
Alkalinity increaser 8 kg ($48.99) and pH increaser 8 kg ($43.55), retail
Stain and scale preventer 1 L ($28.45) and water clarifier 1 L ($21.99), retail
Stabiliser / cyanuric acid (granules 1.75 kg $36.98, tabs 2 kg $67.99)
Winterising kit, inground up to 100,000 L ($74.95) and above-ground up to 55,000 L ($63.95)
Hayward sand filter, 19 inch to 30 inch
Robotic inground pool cleaner
Salt chlorinator system, installed
Salt cell replacement (every 3 to 7 years)
LED pool light, per fixture
Complete LED lighting system
Pool automation system
Above-ground winter cover, retail (Eliminator Xtreme, 12 ft to 30 ft round)
Starter DIY supplies (test kit, skimmer, brush, first chemicals)
Ongoing DIY supplies
The bands
Each bar is one row from the table above, drawn from $0 so the lengths can be compared by eye. 9 of the 19 pool supplies rows are drawn, on 3 separate scales (per year (CAD), per container (CAD), per system (CAD)), because a figure quoted per month and a figure quoted per project are not the same measurement and must not share an axis. The widest published band on this guide is pool automation system, at $2,000 to $10,000.
Chlorine for the season
$150–$300
Salt system chemicals for the season
$150–$300
Season of pool chemicals (chlorine, pH, alkalinity, shock, test kit)
$250–$500
Annual chemical and test-kit spend on a chlorine pool
$600–$900
pH increaser and decreaser, retail (pH plus 2 kg $15.99, pH minus 8 kg $54.98)
$15.99–$54.98
Stabiliser / cyanuric acid (granules 1.75 kg $36.98, tabs 2 kg $67.99)
$36.98–$67.99
Alkalinity increaser 8 kg ($48.99) and pH increaser 8 kg ($43.55), retail
$43.55–$48.99
Salt chlorinator system, installed
$1,200–$2,500
Pool automation system
$2,000–$10,000
10 of the 19 rows above are not drawn, because a bar would say something the source did not.
Two clocks
This guide opens on the distinction that matters for a supplies budget: chemicals are the cost that repeats every few weeks, and pumps, filters and heaters are the ones that arrive all at once, usually without warning. Those are two different clocks, and a third group runs on a clock you can actually read in advance.
Budgeted once a year and spent across it. Which sanitiser system the pool runs changes this group before anything else does.
A season of chlorine
$150–$300 per year (CAD)
A season on a salt system instead
$150–$300 per year (CAD)
The pool is still chlorinated. The chlorine is generated on site instead of bought in a bucket.
The full chemical and test-kit spend on a chlorine pool
$600–$900 per year (CAD)
Buying it yourself, month by month
$30–$100 per month (CAD)
against
Hardware. Bought when something fails or when the pool is upgraded, and priced by size rather than by season.
A sand filter, 19 inch up to 30 inch
$349.00–$1,679.00 per filter (CAD)
The span here is the size of the filter, not a market range.
A robotic cleaner
$699.00–$2,199.00 per cleaner (CAD)
A salt chlorinator system, installed
$1,200–$2,500 per system (CAD)
A complete LED lighting system
$1,500–$3,000 per pool (CAD)
and, on a timer
Neither of the above. These are wear parts with a published life, so they can be budgeted before they fail.
Salt cell, every 3 to 7 years
$400–$700 per cell (CAD)
A winterising kit, once a year
$63.95–$74.95 per kit (CAD)
This guide's Ontario notes put the cost of skipping it in the thousands.
Built from the price rows above and their conditions, plus this guide's cost factors on sanitiser system, container size and equipment size. Retail prices in the table are shown before Ontario HST.
Variables
Size, access and what has to be rebuilt to reach the pool move a pool supplies quote more than anything else in Toronto. Each line below is one of those variables, with the published figure that shows how far it moves the total.
Local rules
Ontario adds 13 percent HST on top of every quote, Toronto requires a pool fence enclosure permit before anyone digs, and the freeze-thaw cycle decides what survives the winter. Those three are what a national price guide leaves out.
Levers
The biggest saving is almost always timing and bundling rather than choosing a cheaper material. Each lever below is tied to a published figure from the table, so you can see what it is actually worth before deciding it is worth doing.
Provenance
Every figure above was re-read in the document it is attributed to, and the exact sentence carrying it is recorded against the row. Where a number could not be found in the source it named, the row came out rather than the number being adjusted to fit. Here is what PoolBuilderIndex found across the 9 sources.
The shortlist/3 of 59 shown
PoolBuilderIndex tracks 59 pool supply stores across the Greater Toronto Area, rated 4.45★ on average. The three below rank highest on our published score, based on PoolBuilderIndex's analysis of 59 GTA businesses, August 2026.

5.0★ rating · 25 Google reviews
83/100 score
Oakville · Pool Repair
Monday: Closed

4.8★ rating · 163 Google reviews
74/100 score
Islington-City Centre West · Pool Builders
Monday: 8 a.m.–6 p.m.

4.8★ rating · 131 Google reviews
71/100 score
Willowdale · Pool Maintenance
Monday: 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m.
Their own photographs/ranks 4 to 9 of 59
Not stock photography, and not ours: every picture below was taken by the company named on it and carries whatever that company chose to photograph, which for some is a finished backyard and for others is the vans. These are the next 6 pool supply stores down the same ranking as the shortlist above, carrying 25 pictures between them, and the largest tile belongs to whichever of the six has the most on file here: Scottish Gas Group Inc., with 5. Open one for the rest of that company’s pictures, its hours and its number.
Scottish Gas Group Inc.5 photographs on file
Pioneer Family Pools & Spas5 photographs on file
Premier Pool Group5 photographs on file
Pioneer Family Pools & Spas4 photographs on file
Cedarbrae Pools Co. Ltd.3 photographs on file
Mirage Pool and Spa3 photographs on fileCalculators
Put your own dimensions in and these work it out from the same researched figures as the table above. Every answer shows the arithmetic and names the source it multiplied, so you can check it rather than take it.
Definitions
These are the words a quote for pool supplies will use without explaining them. Each one below is defined as this page uses it, so a line on an estimate can be read for what it is rather than guessed at.
Related guides
A pool is rarely one decision. These are the PoolBuilderIndex guides that price the jobs sitting either side of this one, and the head-to-head pages for the choices that change the number most.
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