A new pool is two projects sharing one name. The first is the one you picture: the shape, the depth, the way water sits in the yard. The second decides the schedule and most of the budget, and it is about what lies under your grass, how machinery reaches the back yard, and what the shell is made of. Good builders start with the second and let it shape the first, which is why a real site walk is worth more than a pretty rendering.
You are choosing among three shells, and that choice sets the character of ownership for as long as you own the house. Gunite is sprayed over tied steel and finished on site, so it goes anywhere and takes any shape, with an interior surface that wears. Fiberglass arrives as one molded piece with a smooth finish, limited to shapes the manufacturer builds and to sites a truck and crane can reach. Vinyl-liner pools go up over a supported wall system, simply, with a liner in their future.
Somebody stands in your yard and reads grade, access, utilities and setbacks, then talks through shell type, size and depth. What the site allows comes first, and what you want gets fitted to it.
The layout is drawn against real setbacks and submitted for permitting. The code-compliant barrier requirement gets confirmed at this stage too, since it is a condition of putting the pool into service.
The hole is dug and formed, steel and plumbing go in, and the shell is sprayed or set. Ground surprises surface here, which is the entire reason the site walk mattered.
The pad is plumbed and wired, the interior finish is applied, then the pool is filled and started up: brushed, balanced, and handed over with a plain explanation of how to run it.
We do not quote pools, and anyone naming a figure before seeing your yard is guessing. The variables are short and honest: which shell you choose, the size and depth of the water, what the excavation runs into, how equipment reaches the back yard, and how much hardware ends up on the pad. Heating is its own decision and it moves both the install and what the pool costs you to run every season. Two identical pools on two different lots are not the same project, and the difference is almost always in the ground.
Start with the site and the shape you actually want. If the design is unusual or the yard is awkward, gunite goes where the others cannot. If you want a smooth, low-fuss interior and the access exists for a delivery, fiberglass is a clean answer. If the build needs to stay simple, vinyl-liner does that, with a liner replacement somewhere down the road.
It gets handled, and it changes the job. Rock means different equipment and more time in the hole, and a high water table can mean dewatering while the shell goes in. Nobody knows exactly what is down there until a machine opens the ground, which is why excavation conditions belong in the conversation before you sign rather than after.
Usually, but access shapes the method. Machines and spoil have to move in and out, and a fiberglass shell needs a path wide enough for delivery plus a place to set the crane. Tight gates, steep grade and overhead lines rarely rule a pool out. They change how the work gets done, and that belongs in the plan from the beginning.
Yes. Utah jurisdictions require a code-compliant barrier around the water, and an inspector does not consider the pool finished until that is satisfied. Confirm the local requirement early in the project so it is a planned part of the build instead of a surprise standing between you and the first swim.
Plaster wears out. Liners go brittle, tile lines loosen, and a surface that was smooth turns rough underfoot. When a pool looks tired rather than broken, resurfacing is usually the honest answer, and we point you at crews who do that work properly.
Learn more →Water is going somewhere and nobody can tell you where. Leaks get found by pressure-testing the lines, not by staring at the plaster and guessing. We connect you with crews who diagnose first and dig only where the test points.
Learn more →The pad is the part that actually gets serviced: pump, filter, heater, valves, controls. Things wear, and eventually they get replaced. You will also get a straight answer about heating, which in Utah is a real question rather than a given.
Learn more →Open it in spring, hold the chemistry through summer, and close it before the first hard freeze. Utah winterization is not a formality. We connect you with service companies that handle the whole rhythm, or just the parts you would rather not.
Learn more →Get someone out to look before anyone quotes. No fee to be matched.
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