West Palm Beach · Build · Service · Repair
Pools built properly, for this water.
We're a West Palm Beach pool company that builds gunite pools and spas, keeps them clean 52 weeks a year, and repairs the equipment our salt air eats. Design to dig to dive — one contractor, one number.
Why the water here is different
Anyone can dig a hole. Here, the hole fights back.
West Palm Beach sits on a few feet of sand over porous limestone, with the water table close enough to touch. Dig without a dewatering plan and the excavation floods; build a shell without buoyancy engineering and an empty pool can literally float out of the ground. Add coastal air that carries several times the salt of inland Florida, and you have a market where the contractor's judgment matters more than the brochure. That's the work we do every day — and only that work.
"Engineered for this water" isn't a slogan; it's a checklist. Dewatering planned before the excavator arrives. Shells designed against uplift so an empty pool stays put through the wet season. Equipment pads specced for salt air, with unions a technician can actually reach. Barriers drawn into the permit set from day one, because the county inspects them before you're allowed to call the job finished. Every line of it shows up later as a pool that behaves — which is the only kind worth building.
What we do
Three trades, one crew.
Most pool companies here pick a lane: builders who vanish after the fill, routes that clean but can't fix, repair outfits meeting your equipment for the first time mid-failure. We run all three on purpose, because a pool is one system across its whole life — and the person who built it, the person who cleans it and the person who repairs it work best when they share a phone number, a filing cabinet and a Tuesday schedule.
Pool building
Custom gunite pools and spas — designed, engineered, permitted and built for high-water-table ground. From first sketch to first swim.
New pools & spas
Weekly service
Chemistry, brushing, baskets and an equipment check on every stop — 52 weeks a year, same tech, same day each week.
Cleaning & maintenance
Repair & leaks
Pump swaps, salt cells, heaters and pressure-tested leak detection — diagnosed with instruments, not guesses.
Pumps & leak detectionOne backyard, start to finish
From dirt to dusk.
This is the same backyard three times: the week the steel went in, the day the water did, and the first evening the lights came on. Keep scrolling — the yard does the talking. Lighting is designed in from the first sketch here, because between November and March most swimming in this town happens after work, and the blue hour is when a pool earns its keep.
- 01 · Dig & steeldewatered excavation, engineered shell
- 02 · Filled by noongunite, tile, deck, water and startup
- 03 · Lit by ninethe blue hour, working exactly as drawn
Dig to dive
How a pool actually gets built here.
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Design & engineering
Site survey, soil and water-table review, 3D design, and shell engineering that accounts for groundwater uplift — not a template with your address on it.
2–3 weeks -
Permits, the county way
Palm Beach County issues a pool as a primary permit with sub-permits for barrier and electric. We file the whole package, including the barrier affidavit both of us sign.
3–6 weeks, county-dependent -
Dig & dewater
Wellpoints go in before the excavator does. Keeping the hole dry is what keeps the schedule honest and the shell sound.
1 week -
Steel, plumbing, gunite
Rebar grid, pressure-tested plumbing, then gunite shot and cured. The bones of the pool — inspected at every stage.
3–4 weeks incl. cure -
Tile, deck & finish
Waterline tile, coping, deck work (permitted simultaneously, as the county requires), then interior finish in plaster, quartz or pebble.
4–6 weeks -
Fill, barrier check & startup
Barrier inspection closes the permit, water goes in, chemistry gets balanced, and we hand over a pool school — you'll know your own equipment.
1 week
Thinking about a build? The first conversation is a walkthrough of your yard, not a sales pitch.
Book a design visit Call (561) 555-0142The ground rules
What the sand, the salt and the statutes demand.
Water that pushes up
South Florida's water table sits high over permeable limestone, so most excavations here need active dewatering — typically a wellpoint system — and the shell must be engineered to resist buoyancy when the pool is empty. An empty shell in saturated ground can lift or "pop" under hydrostatic pressure, which is why we never drain a pool here without checking groundwater first, and why our shells are designed against uplift from day one. The engineering firm StructureSmart has a clear explainer on Florida's high water table if you want the deeper read.
Air that eats equipment
Coastal Florida air carries roughly 19–30 micrograms of salt per cubic metre against about 5 inland — measurably harder on pump motors, heater exchangers and automation boards. It's the honest reason equipment near the Intracoastal fails sooner than the same unit five miles west, and it's why an equipment check rides along on every weekly service stop rather than being sold as an extra.
Law that fences the water
Florida's Residential Swimming Pool Safety Act (Chapter 515) sets the barrier rules: at least four feet high on the outside, no gaps or footholds a child could use, gates that open outward away from the pool and latch by themselves, with the release out of a child's reach. Palm Beach County adds its own layer — a 360-degree barrier confirmed by a signed affidavit, sub-permits for barrier and electric, and an inspection of any existing fence before your Certificate of Completion.
Licences that mean something
Under Florida Statute Chapter 489, pool and spa repair is licensed work — any repair touching the plumbing or electrical side of pool equipment must be done by a state-licensed pool contractor. A real Certified Pool Contractor licence reads CPC plus seven digits and is valid statewide. Ask any contractor for theirs before they touch your equipment; the state lets you verify it online.
Questions about your own lot, fence or equipment pad? That's a five-minute phone call.
Call (561) 555-0142Quick answers for West Palm Beach homeowners
The short versions, up front.
Who regulates pool construction here?
Palm Beach County's Building Division, under its pool permitting policy (PB-O-104). Every pool or spa is issued as a primary permit with sub-permits for the barrier, electric and other trades — decks must be permitted simultaneously with the pool. Above the county sits state law: contractor licensing under Chapter 489 and barrier rules under Chapter 515. Your contractor should know all three without looking them up.
How long does a pool take in West Palm Beach?
Twelve to sixteen weeks of construction for a typical gunite pool and spa, after a permit package that usually takes three to six weeks. Gunite cure time is non-negotiable, inspections are scheduled by the county, and summer storm season can stretch deck and finish work. Builders who promise dramatically less are usually quoting a different county's ground.
What makes building here different?
Two things you can't see from the street: groundwater a few feet down over porous limestone, which means dewatered excavations and shells engineered against uplift — and coastal air that carries several times the salt of inland Florida, which decides how the equipment pad gets specced. Neither shows up in national cost articles; both show up in every honest local quote.
Do I need HOA approval as well as a permit?
In many West Palm Beach communities, yes — architectural review runs alongside the county permit, and historic districts like El Cid add their own considerations. We fold HOA drawings into the design phase so both approvals move in parallel rather than one waiting on the other. It's paperwork we do weekly, not an exotic complication.
Can an old pool be renovated instead of replaced?
Usually. A sound gunite shell from the 1970s is still a sound shell — resurfacing, new tile and coping, modern equipment and lighting can bring a fifty-year-old pool fully up to date for far less disruption than starting over. The exceptions are structural: active shell leaks, movement cracks, or plumbing too far gone to pressure-test clean. We tell you which side you're on before any money moves.
Whose licence should I check, and how?
The contractor's Certified Pool Contractor licence — CPC followed by seven digits — on Florida's DBPR licence search. State law requires licensed pool contracting for construction and for any repair touching pool plumbing or electrical. It's a two-minute check that filters out most of the horror stories in this trade, and any legitimate outfit will hand the number over happily.
Recent water
Pools we'd happily sign twice.
Four recent builds, four different problems solved: a modern rectilinear with a sun shelf, a spa-and-spillway night garden, a courtyard plunge threaded into a 1920s historic lot, and a vanishing edge hung over the Intracoastal. Duration is listed honestly — permits excluded, weather included.
Every one of these started as a blank yard and a phone call.
Get your free quoteWhere we work.
Home base is West Palm Beach — from the historic pools of El Cid and Prospect Park to Flamingo Park bungalows, Northwood, Grandview Heights and the long Intracoastal stretch of Southend. We run routes and builds through Palm Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, Lake Worth Beach and Wellington, and take on select builds down to Boca Raton.
Older neighbourhoods get older-house care: tight street access in El Cid, historic-district sensibilities, decks that have to meet houses a century old. Newer communities get the opposite problem solved — builder-grade equipment upgraded into something that survives the salt.
The build side and the service side share one map on purpose. A crew that pours a deck in Grandview Heights on Monday is cleaning pools two streets over on Tuesday — which is why quotes come back same-week and callbacks don't wait for "the next time we're in the area". We already are.
Mon–Fri 7:00–5:00 · same-week quotes · (561) 555-0142
Asked constantly
Straight answers, before you call.
Who are the best pool builders near me in West Palm Beach?
Look for three things before you compare anyone: a Florida Certified Pool Contractor licence (CPC followed by seven digits — ask for it and check it on the DBPR site), real experience with dewatered excavations in our water table, and permits pulled under Palm Beach County's pool policy rather than "handled by the owner". We build, service and repair pools across West Palm Beach and will walk you through all three on the first call.
What is the average price to build an inground pool?
There isn't a useful single number — the honest answer is what moves the quote. Size and depth matter less than people expect. What matters here: how much dewatering your lot needs, whether the shell has to be engineered against groundwater buoyancy, the finish tier (plaster, quartz or pebble), added structures like a raised spa or sun shelf, and the barrier work Palm Beach County requires before completion. We put every one of those on a line of its own in a written quote, so you can see what's driving it.
How long does it take to build a pool in West Palm Beach?
Plan on roughly twelve to sixteen weeks from permit approval to swim-ready for a typical gunite pool, longer for elaborate builds with big decks or outdoor kitchens. Permitting adds weeks in front of that, and the county's sub-permits for barrier and electric have to close out before you get a Certificate of Completion.
How much does a pool guy cost per month near me?
Weekly service is priced per pool, not per visit, and the spread comes down to size, screen enclosure or not, tree cover, and equipment age. Salt systems and heaters add checks to the route stop. We quote it flat per month after seeing the pool — no surge pricing in summer, no surprise chemical bills.
Is it worth repairing a pool pump?
Usually yes if the motor is under about five years old and the wet end is sound — and usually no if it's an older single-speed unit, because a variable-speed replacement typically pays for itself in electricity within a couple of years and Florida's efficiency rules point the same way. We'll tell you which side of that line your pump is on before any work starts.
Do I need a permit to build a pool in Palm Beach County?
Yes — pools are issued as a primary permit with sub-permits for the barrier, electric and other trades, under the county's pool permitting policy (PB-O-104). You and your contractor also sign an Affidavit of Understanding confirming a 360-degree barrier around the pool. We handle the whole file: application, engineering, sub-permits and inspections through Certificate of Completion.
Can pool pumps be repaired?
Yes — seals, bearings, capacitors, impellers and o-rings are all honest, repairable failures, and on a motor under about five years old repair is usually the right call. The genuine judgment call is an older single-speed pump, where a variable-speed replacement runs quieter, costs dramatically less to operate and satisfies Florida's efficiency rules. Either way the diagnosis comes first and the price is agreed before the pump is opened.
Do pools in Florida need to be closed for winter?
No. West Palm Beach swims year-round — there's no closing, no winterising, and service runs 52 weeks. Winter here is about chemistry drift and leaf load, not freeze protection.
No-obligation, no pressure
Tell us about the pool you want — or the one acting up.
Builds get a design visit. Service gets a quote after one look at the pool. Repairs get a straight diagnosis with the price agreed before the work. Calls answered Mon–Fri 7:00–5:00; the form is answered same day. And if what you need is honestly outside our lane — a fiberglass install, a fence-only job — we'll say so on the first call and point you somewhere reputable. The quote costs nothing either way.
- Free, written quotes — every driver on its own line
- State-licensed pool contracting; county permits on every job that needs them
- Service area: West Palm Beach, Palm Beach, the Gardens, Lake Worth Beach, Wellington
- One crew for build, service and repair — no hand-offs between companies
- Prefer to talk? (561) 555-0142, Mon–Fri 7:00–5:00