The Dirt Under Your Backyard Has Strong Opinions About Your Pool
Two pools, two identical budgets, two different outcomes five years later. The difference was buried four feet down before anybody poured a thing.
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Harris & Montgomery County, Texas
The Houston Pool Builders Behind the City's Most Beautiful Backyards
Two decades of custom pools, spas and water features across greater Houston. Every one of them started as a walkthrough you could see in three dimensions, not a promise you had to take on faith.
Our approach
Vision, lifestyle and budget. Always in that order.
Those three things sit at the centre of every pool we have ever built, and they are the reason our clients tend to describe the process as calm rather than stressful.
A pool is not a product you select from a shelf. It is a piece of your property that has to work with the grade of your yard, the way your family actually spends a Saturday, and the number you are genuinely comfortable with. We start with all three on the table and design outward from there.
What comes back is not a sketch. It is a full three dimensional rendering of your finished backyard, detailed enough that you can walk it before anyone lifts a shovel. Nothing gets built until you have seen it and told us it is right.
20+
Years in Houston
2
Counties served
3D
Design before dig
What we build
Six ways we put water in a Houston backyard
From a hand carved gunite shell to a fiberglass shell craned in on a Tuesday, plus everything that keeps it beautiful afterward.
Custom Gunite Pools
Shells shot and shaped on site, engineered for the specific soil under your yard. Any shape your property will allow.
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Fiberglass Pools
A finished shell, a crane and a much shorter calendar. The fastest route to swimming when your lot has the access for it.
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3D Pool Design
Your finished backyard rendered in detail before construction begins, so the only surprise left is how good it looks filled.
Inside the design process
Hot Tubs & Spas
In ground spas built into the pool, or a standalone tub from the largest selection we can put in front of you in Texas.
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Rock & Water Features
Grottos, spillways, sheer descents and boulder work that make a backyard sound as good as it looks.
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Pool Service & Care
Water chemistry, equipment checks, tile and acid washing. We look after the pools we build, and plenty we did not.
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Before we lift a shovel
See it finished before anyone starts digging
We build your backyard twice. Once on screen, in enough detail that you can see the water line against the stone and the light coming off the spa at dusk. Then once for real, exactly the way you approved it.
Experience matters
Twenty years of Houston clay, Houston permits and Houston summers
Anyone can build a pool somewhere flat and forgiving. Building here means engineering for soil that moves with the seasons, working through a patchwork of city, county and district approvals, and designing a backyard that is still usable at four in the afternoon in July.
- Shells engineered for the expansive clay under greater Houston, not a generic spec
- Permitting handled across Harris County, Montgomery County and the cities in between
- Deck, shade and water temperature planned for the months you will actually use it
- The same crew after handover, keeping the water clear year round
How it goes
Four stages from first conversation to first swim
01
Sit down
We walk the yard, talk through how you want to use it, and get honest about the number before anybody designs anything.
02
See it in 3D
Your backyard comes back as a full rendering. Change the shape, the stone, the lighting. Change it again. Nothing is committed yet.
03
Build it right
Engineering, permits, excavation, steel, shell, tile, deck and equipment, each handled in sequence with inspections in between.
04
Keep it perfect
Startup, a full walkthrough of the system, and an ongoing service relationship if you want one. Most clients do.
From our clients
From start to finish, everything went great including the communication.
Blue Pools Houston customer
Pool & Spa News Top 50
WSJ World's Greatest Pools
Better Business Bureau
Houzz
Home Advisor
Pool & Spa Professionals
Pentair
Houston Chronicle
The journal
What twenty years in this city taught us
Straight answers about building, owning and enjoying a pool on the Gulf Coast.
Let's begin
It is getting exciting. Let's start on your backyard.
Tell us about your property and how you want to use it. We will come out, walk the yard with you, and put a real design in front of you. No cost, no pressure, no obligation to build a thing.