Our Process

PHASE 1 – DESIGN & PROPOSAL

It all begins with an in-home consultation. Our pool designers have experience in creating backyard designs that blend and compliment the surrounding natural elements. You can expect your pool designer to fully understand your vision, scope, and detail. Allowing room for improvements, upgrades, and the features that will make your pool the perfect compliment to your lifestyle.

 
 

PHASE 2 – PERMITTING

Based upon your approval of the final pool design and budget the design specialist will meet with you again to complete the agreement. After 72 hours have passed it will be time to submit the properly scaled and rendered drawings to your neighborhood association or architectural committee and the local city permitting office for approval before any work may begin. In some cases you may not be under local restrictions to build a swimming pool, in which case we can get started a little sooner than waiting for approvals from homeowners associations and the city.

PHASE 3 – TAKEOFF

One of the most popular questions that we are asked is “how long does it take to build a pool start to finish?”. Providing allowance for weather delays, and that many skilled tradesmen do not perform labor on Sundays you can usually expect a pool construction project to take about 8 to 10 weeks.

There are aspects of a project that might require subsequent steps, such as an outdoor kitchen or living area. These additions to the pool project may add 1 to 2 weeks to a 8 to 10 week pool project depending on the scope and included features.

PHASE 4 – FORMS & EXCAVATION

Now here is where the real fun begins, breaking ground with the heavy excavation equipment. All has gone well, the weather is perfect and we are ready to carefully open the ground in the exact outer shape of the swimming pool. Our team of swimming pool excavation experts will amaze you with their professional abilities. It takes approximately one full day to properly excavate a swimming pool in preparation for the structural reinforcement stage.

Our excavation advantages:

  • Over excavated for strength, up to 6″ standard pool floor thickness.

  • Soil reclamation, when applicable conserved for adjusting the topography of your yard for drainage purposes.

  • Haul away excess, included when saving spoils is not applicable.

PHASE 5 – REBAR & STUB-OUT

For gunite pools our minimum requirement of 6″ on-center #3 rebar grid installation, and to ensure the integrity of the beam requires a 4x #4 or 1/2″ four bar boxed beam. The beam of the pool is what will help to connect the outer decking slabs to the flush pool level, while also allowing for expansion and contraction of both the decking slab and the pool beam.

Water weighs 62.42lbs per cubic foot, and will apply pressure per cubic foot against the bottoms and sides of the pool of up to .050 lbs per square inch. As you would imagine, when the swimming pool is full of water there are tremendous outward forces against all points of the pool structure. It is imperative that the proper measures are taken to structurally reinforce the shell of your swimming pool.