<PAGE>
 
     As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 2, 1999
                                                    Registration No. 333-
================================================================================

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549
                               __________________
                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                     under
                           The Securities Act of 1933
                               __________________
                              SCP Pool Corporation
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
                               __________________

            Delaware                                           36-3943363
(State or other jurisdiction of                             (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)                           Identification Number)


                            109 Northpark Boulevard
                        Covington, Louisiana 70433-5001
   (Address, including zip code of registrant's principal executive offices)
                               __________________

                              SCP Pool Corporation

                             1998 Stock Option Plan
                            (Full title of the plan)
                               __________________

                                Craig K. Hubbard
                              SCP Pool Corporation
                            109 Northpark Boulevard
                        Covington, Louisiana 70433-5001
                           Telephone: (504) 892-5521
 (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code,
                             of agent for service)

                                   Copy to:
                              Stephen L. Ritchie
                               Kirkland & Ellis
                            200 East Randolph Drive
                            Chicago, Illinois 60601
                           Telephone: (312) 861-2000
                               __________________

                        CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
=========================================================================================================
                                                  Proposed         Proposed Maximum
  Title of Securities       Amount to be     Maximum Offering        Aggregate             Amount of
    to be Registered       Registered(1)    Price Per Share(2)    Offering Price(2)   Registration Fee(3)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
<S>                       <C>               <C>                  <C>                  <C>
Common Stock, par
 value $.001 per share    1,125,000 shares        $13.63            $15,333,750            $3,412.79
 =========================================================================================================
</TABLE>

(1)  Includes 332,173 shares transferred from Form S-8 Registration Statement
No. 333-16639. Pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement shall be deemed to cover an indeterminate number of
additional shares of Common Stock issuable in the event the number of
outstanding shares of the registrant is increased by split-up, reclassification,
stock dividend or the like.

(2)  Estimated solely for the purpose of computing the registration fee pursuant
to Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 457(h); based on the average of the
high and low price per share of Common Stock of SCP Pool Corporation on March
26, 1999, as reported on The Nasdaq National Market.

(3)  Pursuant to Rule 429(b), such amount represents an aggregate fee of
$4,262.78 less $849.99 attributable to the 332,173 shares transferred from Form
S-8 Registration Statement No. 333-16639 for which the registration fee had been
paid previously. A post-effective amendment to Registration Statement No. 333-
16639 is being filed to deregister such shares.

================================================================================
 
<PAGE>
 
                                      PART I

              INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

     Information required by Part I to be contained in the Section 10(a)
prospectus is omitted from this Registration Statement in accordance with Rule
428 under the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act") and the Note to Part
I of Form S-8.

                                    PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

     Item 3.   Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The following documents filed with the Commission by SCP Pool Corporation (the
"Company") are incorporated herein by reference:

     (a)  The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
December 31, 1997.

     (b)  All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, since the end of the fiscal year
covered by the registrant document referred to in (a) above.

     (c)  The description of the Company's Common Stock contained in the
Company's Registration Statement on Form S-1, File No. 333-40245, as amended.

     (d)  All documents filed by the Company pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c),
14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, subsequent to
the date hereof and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which
indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters
all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by
reference herein and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such
document. Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded
for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement
contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is
incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or
supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall
not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this
Registration Statement.

     Item 4.   Description of Securities.

     Not applicable.

     Item 5.   Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

     The validity of the shares of the Company's Common Stock, par value $.001
per share (the "Common Stock"), offered hereby will be passed upon for the
Company by Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, Illinois. Kevin R. Evanich, a partner of
Kirkland & Ellis, beneficially owns shares of the Company's Common Stock. In
addition, shares of the Company's Common Stock are beneficially owned by certain
partners of K&E Partners, a partnership comprised of individuals who are also
partners of Kirkland & Ellis.

                                       1
<PAGE>
 
     Item 6.   Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

     The Company is incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware.
Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware ("Section
145") provides that a Delaware corporation may indemnify any persons who are, or
are threatened to be made, parties to any threatened, pending or completed
action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or
investigative (other than an action by or in the right of such corporation), by
reason of the fact that such person was an officer, director, employee or agent
of such corporation, or is or was serving at the request of such corporation as
a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or enterprise. The
indemnity may include expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines and
amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in
connection with such action, suit or proceeding, provided such person acted in
good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the
corporation's best interests and, with respect to any criminal action or
proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was illegal. A
Delaware corporation may indemnify any persons who are, or are threatened to be
made, a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in
the right of the corporation by reason of the fact that such person was a
director, officer, employee or agent of such corporation, or is or was serving
at the request of such corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of
another corporation or enterprise. The indemnity may include expenses (including
attorneys' fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection
with the defense or settlement of such action or suit, provided such person
acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not
opposed to the corporation's best interests except that no indemnification is
permitted without judicial approval if the officer or director is adjudged to be
liable to the corporation. Where an officer or director is successful on the
merits or otherwise in the defense of any action referred to above, the
corporation must indemnify him against the expenses which such officer or
director has actually and reasonably incurred.

     The Company's Restated Certificate of Incorporation provides for the
indemnification of directors and officers of the Company to the fullest extent
permitted by Section 145.

     In that regard, the Restated Certificate of Incorporation provides that the
Company shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be
made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding,
whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (including any action
by or in the right of the corporation) by reason of the fact that he is or was a
director or officer or employee of the Company, or is or was serving at the
request of the Company as a director, officer or employee of another
corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against
expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes,
penalties and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him
in connection with such action, suit or proceeding.

     The Company has insurance policies in effect covering all of the Company's
directors and officers in certain instances where by law they may not be
indemnified by the Company.

     Item 7.   Exemption From Registration Claimed.

     Not applicable.

     Item 8. Exhibits.

     See "Index to Exhibits."

                                       2
<PAGE>
 
     Item 9.   Undertakings.

     (a)  Rule 415 Offering. The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

          (1)  To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

               (i)    To include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of
          the Securities Act of 1933;

               (ii)   To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising
          after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most
          recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
          aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth
          in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any
          increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total
          dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was
          registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the
          estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of
          prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in
          the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than
          a 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the
          "Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the effective registration
          statement;

               (iii)  To include any material information with respect to the
          plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration
          statement or any material change to such information in the
          registration statement;

          Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) of this
section do not apply if the registration statement is on Form S-3, Form S-8 or
Form F-3, and the information required to be included in a post-effective
amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or
furnished to the Commission by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section
15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference
in the registration statement.

          (2)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be
a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

          (3)  To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the
termination of the offering.

     (b)  Filings Incorporating Subsequent Exchange Act Documents By Reference.

          The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the
registrant's annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an
employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the
registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

                                       3
<PAGE>
 
     (c)  Request for Acceleration of Effective Date or Filing of Registration
Statement on Form S-8.

          Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling
persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise,
the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and
Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed
in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will
be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

                                       4
<PAGE>
 
                                   SIGNATURES
                                   ----------

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the
requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration
statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Covington, State of Louisiana on the 31st day of
March, 1999.

                                    SCP POOL CORPORATION

                                    By: /s/ Wilson B. Sexton
                                       ---------------------------------
                                         Wilson B. Sexton
                                         Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY
                               ------------------

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below
constitutes and appoints Wilson B. Sexton and Craig K. Hubbard and each of them,
as true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with full power of substitution
and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all
capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments)
to this registration statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto,
and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and
authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary
to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he
might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents or their or his substitute or substitutes, may
lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration
Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated
on March 31, 1999.

Signature                               Title

/s/ Wilson B. Sexton                    Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and
-----------------------------------     Director
Wilson B. Sexton        

/s/ Manuel J. Perez de la Mesa          President, Chief Operating Officer
-----------------------------------                                
Manuel J. Perez de la Mesa

/s/ Craig K. Hubbard                    Secretary, Treasurer and Chief Financial
-----------------------------------     Officer
Craig K. Hubbard    

/s/ Andrew W. Code                      Director
-----------------------------------
Andrew W. Code

/s/ James J. Gaffney                    Director
-----------------------------------
James J. Gaffney

/s/ Peter M. Gotsch                     Director
-----------------------------------
Peter M. Gotsch

/s/ Frank J. St. Romain                 Director
-----------------------------------
Frank J. St. Romain

/s/ Robert C. Sledd                     Director
-----------------------------------
Robert C. Sledd

                                       5
<PAGE>
 
                               INDEX TO EXHIBITS
                               -----------------

<TABLE> 
<CAPTION> 
                                                                    Sequential
Exhibit                                                             Page
Number    Description                                               Number
------    -----------                                               -----------
<C>       <S>                                                       <C> 
4.1       SCP Pool Corporation 1998 Stock Option Plan,
          incorporated by reference to the Company's Proxy
          Statement filed on April 8, 1998 for the 1998 annual
          meeting of stockholders.

4.2       Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company,
          incorporated by reference to the Company's Proxy
          Statement filed on April 8, 1998 for the 1998 annual
          meeting of stockholders.

4.3       Restated Bylaws of the Company, incorporated by
          reference to the respective exhibit to the
          Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No. 33-92738).

5.1       Opinion of Kirkland & Ellis as to the legality of the
          securities being registered.

23.1      Consent of Ernst & Young LLP.

23.2      Consent of Kirkland & Ellis (included in Exhibit 5.1).

24.1      Power of Attorney (included on signature page).
</TABLE> 

                                       6
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 2, 1999
                                                    Registration No. 333-
================================================================================

                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549
                               __________________
                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                     under
                           The Securities Act of 1933
                               __________________
                              SCP Pool Corporation
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
                               __________________

            Delaware                                           36-3943363
(State or other jurisdiction of                             (I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)                           Identification Number)

                            109 Northpark Boulevard
                        Covington, Louisiana 70433-5001
   (Address, including zip code of registrant's principal executive offices)
                               __________________

                              SCP Pool Corporation

                             1998 Stock Option Plan
                            (Full title of the plan)
                               __________________

                                Craig K. Hubbard
                              SCP Pool Corporation
                            109 Northpark Boulevard
                        Covington, Louisiana 70433-5001
                           Telephone: (504) 892-5521
 (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code,
                             of agent for service)

                                   Copy to:
                              Stephen L. Ritchie
                               Kirkland & Ellis
                            200 East Randolph Drive
                            Chicago, Illinois 60601
                           Telephone: (312) 861-2000
                               __________________

                        CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
=========================================================================================================
                                                  Proposed         Proposed Maximum
  Title of Securities       Amount to be     Maximum Offering        Aggregate             Amount of
    to be Registered       Registered(1)    Price Per Share(2)    Offering Price(2)   Registration Fee(3)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Common Stock, par
 value $.001 per share    1,125,000 shares        $13.63            $15,333,750            $3,412.79
 =========================================================================================================
(1)  Includes 332,173 shares transferred from Form S-8 Registration Statement
No. 333-16639. Pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement shall be deemed to cover an indeterminate number of
additional shares of Common Stock issuable in the event the number of
outstanding shares of the registrant is increased by split-up, reclassification,
stock dividend or the like.

(2)  Estimated solely for the purpose of computing the registration fee pursuant
to Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 457(h); based on the average of the
high and low price per share of Common Stock of SCP Pool Corporation on March
26, 1999, as reported on The Nasdaq National Market.

(3)  Pursuant to Rule 429(b), such amount represents an aggregate fee of
$4,262.78 less $849.99 attributable to the 332,173 shares transferred from Form
S-8 Registration Statement No. 333-16639 for which the registration fee had been
paid previously. A post-effective amendment to Registration Statement No. 333-
16639 is being filed to deregister such shares.

================================================================================
PART I

              INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE SECTION 10(a) PROSPECTUS

     Information required by Part I to be contained in the Section 10(a)
prospectus is omitted from this Registration Statement in accordance with Rule
428 under the Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act") and the Note to Part
I of Form S-8.

                                    PART II

               INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

     Item 3.   Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The following documents filed with the Commission by SCP Pool Corporation (the
"Company") are incorporated herein by reference:

     (a)  The Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
December 31, 1997.

     (b)  All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, since the end of the fiscal year
covered by the registrant document referred to in (a) above.

     (c)  The description of the Company's Common Stock contained in the
Company's Registration Statement on Form S-1, File No. 333-40245, as amended.

     (d)  All documents filed by the Company pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c),
14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, subsequent to
the date hereof and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which
indicates that all securities offered hereby have been sold or which deregisters
all securities then remaining unsold, shall be deemed to be incorporated by
reference herein and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of such
document. Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be
incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded
for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement
contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is
incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or
supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall
not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this
Registration Statement.

     Item 4.   Description of Securities.

     Not applicable.

     Item 5.   Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

     The validity of the shares of the Company's Common Stock, par value $.001
per share (the "Common Stock"), offered hereby will be passed upon for the
Company by Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, Illinois. Kevin R. Evanich, a partner of
Kirkland & Ellis, beneficially owns shares of the Company's Common Stock. In
addition, shares of the Company's Common Stock are beneficially owned by certain
partners of K&E Partners, a partnership comprised of individuals who are also
partners of Kirkland & Ellis.

                                       1
Item 6.   Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

     The Company is incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware.
Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware ("Section
145") provides that a Delaware corporation may indemnify any persons who are, or
are threatened to be made, parties to any threatened, pending or completed
action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or
investigative (other than an action by or in the right of such corporation), by
reason of the fact that such person was an officer, director, employee or agent
of such corporation, or is or was serving at the request of such corporation as
a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or enterprise. The
indemnity may include expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines and
amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in
connection with such action, suit or proceeding, provided such person acted in
good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the
corporation's best interests and, with respect to any criminal action or
proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was illegal. A
Delaware corporation may indemnify any persons who are, or are threatened to be
made, a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in
the right of the corporation by reason of the fact that such person was a
director, officer, employee or agent of such corporation, or is or was serving
at the request of such corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of
another corporation or enterprise. The indemnity may include expenses (including
attorneys' fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection
with the defense or settlement of such action or suit, provided such person
acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not
opposed to the corporation's best interests except that no indemnification is
permitted without judicial approval if the officer or director is adjudged to be
liable to the corporation. Where an officer or director is successful on the
merits or otherwise in the defense of any action referred to above, the
corporation must indemnify him against the expenses which such officer or
director has actually and reasonably incurred.

     The Company's Restated Certificate of Incorporation provides for the
indemnification of directors and officers of the Company to the fullest extent
permitted by Section 145.

     In that regard, the Restated Certificate of Incorporation provides that the
Company shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be
made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding,
whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (including any action
by or in the right of the corporation) by reason of the fact that he is or was a
director or officer or employee of the Company, or is or was serving at the
request of the Company as a director, officer or employee of another
corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against
expenses (including attorneys' fees), judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes,
penalties and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him
in connection with such action, suit or proceeding.

     The Company has insurance policies in effect covering all of the Company's
directors and officers in certain instances where by law they may not be
indemnified by the Company.

     Item 7.   Exemption From Registration Claimed.

     Not applicable.

     Item 8. Exhibits.

     See "Index to Exhibits."

                                       2
Item 9.   Undertakings.

     (a)  Rule 415 Offering. The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

          (1)  To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

               (i)    To include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of
          the Securities Act of 1933;

               (ii)   To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising
          after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most
          recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
          aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth
          in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any
          increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total
          dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was
          registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the
          estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of
          prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in
          the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than
          a 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the
          "Calculation of Registration Fee" table in the effective registration
          statement;

               (iii)  To include any material information with respect to the
          plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration
          statement or any material change to such information in the
          registration statement;

          Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i) and (a)(1)(ii) of this
section do not apply if the registration statement is on Form S-3, Form S-8 or
Form F-3, and the information required to be included in a post-effective
amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or
furnished to the Commission by the registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section
15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference
in the registration statement.

          (2)  That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be
a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
fide offering thereof.

          (3)  To remove from registration by means of a post-effective
amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the
termination of the offering.

     (b)  Filings Incorporating Subsequent Exchange Act Documents By Reference.

          The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of
determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the
registrant's annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an
employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the
registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement
relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

                                       3
(c)  Request for Acceleration of Effective Date or Filing of Registration
Statement on Form S-8.

          Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the
Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling
persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise,
the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and
Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed
in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for
indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the
registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling
person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in
connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in
the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such
indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will
be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

                                       4
SIGNATURES
                                   ----------

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all the
requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration
statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Covington, State of Louisiana on the 31st day of
March, 1999.

                                    SCP POOL CORPORATION

                                    By: /s/ Wilson B. Sexton
                                       ---------------------------------
                                         Wilson B. Sexton
                                         Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

                                POWER OF ATTORNEY
                               ------------------

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below
constitutes and appoints Wilson B. Sexton and Craig K. Hubbard and each of them,
as true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with full power of substitution
and resubstitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all
capacities, to sign any or all amendments (including post-effective amendments)
to this registration statement, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto,
and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents full power and
authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary
to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he
might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents or their or his substitute or substitutes, may
lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration
Statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated
on March 31, 1999.

Signature                               Title

/s/ Wilson B. Sexton                    Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and
-----------------------------------     Director
Wilson B. Sexton        

/s/ Manuel J. Perez de la Mesa          President, Chief Operating Officer
-----------------------------------                                
Manuel J. Perez de la Mesa

/s/ Craig K. Hubbard                    Secretary, Treasurer and Chief Financial
-----------------------------------     Officer
Craig K. Hubbard    

/s/ Andrew W. Code                      Director
-----------------------------------
Andrew W. Code

/s/ James J. Gaffney                    Director
-----------------------------------
James J. Gaffney

/s/ Peter M. Gotsch                     Director
-----------------------------------
Peter M. Gotsch

/s/ Frank J. St. Romain                 Director
-----------------------------------
Frank J. St. Romain

/s/ Robert C. Sledd                     Director
-----------------------------------
Robert C. Sledd

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INDEX TO EXHIBITS
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Sequential
Exhibit                                                             Page
Number    Description                                               Number
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4.1       SCP Pool Corporation 1998 Stock Option Plan,
          incorporated by reference to the Company's Proxy
          Statement filed on April 8, 1998 for the 1998 annual
          meeting of stockholders.

4.2       Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company,
          incorporated by reference to the Company's Proxy
          Statement filed on April 8, 1998 for the 1998 annual
          meeting of stockholders.

4.3       Restated Bylaws of the Company, incorporated by
          reference to the respective exhibit to the
          Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No. 33-92738).

5.1       Opinion of Kirkland & Ellis as to the legality of the
          securities being registered.

23.1      Consent of Ernst & Young LLP.

23.2      Consent of Kirkland & Ellis (included in Exhibit 5.1).

24.1      Power of Attorney (included on signature page).
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