Tips for a Smooth and Enjoyable Pool Building Process
Designing and building a custom gunite swimming pool doesn’t (and shouldn’t) be a stressful or drawn out process. When you find the right pool company to meet your needs, it should actually be smooth and enjoyable! At the end of it all, this experience should be a wonderful memory for you and……
Gas, Electric, and Solar: A Breakdown of Your Pool Heating Options
The ability to heat a swimming pool drastically expands the seasons in which you can use a pool, especially in areas that aren’t warm year-round. Many of our pool owners will start swimming well before Memorial Day and long after Labor Day, sometimes putting off closing their pools until October…
What You Need to Know About Building an Indoor Pool
When a homeowner wants to build an indoor pool (especially in the Northeast), it’s often so that they can enjoy it year-round. And that might be a good reason to do it, especially if the client is a competitive swimmer or training enthusiast. Other times, it is for health or therapy reasons…
Expert Advice on Closing Your Swimming Pool for the Season
EOnce Labor Day has passed, the weather begins to cool and the leaves start to fall, pool owners naturally begin to think about when they plan to close their pool for the winter season. There are many questions surrounding this process including when is the best time to close a pool, and what pool…
10 Myths About Custom Gunite Swimming Pools - Debunked!
1Once you decide you want something, like the convenience and luxury of having your own swimming pool, there are few things that can hold you back. Many of these things prove to be myths or misconceptions once you pull back the curtain and learn the truth. This is exactly what we’re going…
Are You Ready to Be a Pool Owner? Here's What You Should Consider.
AIf there was a single, most important question everyone should ask themselves before starting to build a swimming pool it is “Am I ready to be a pool owner?” In case your initial answer to this question is “I don’t know. What will it require of me?” then let us help by breaking this…
5 Unexpected Benefits of Having Your Own Swimming Pool
5When thinking about the many reasons for wanting to build your own swimming pool, a few easily rise to the top. You want an easy way to keep cool in the summer, it is great entertainment for kids (of all ages!), you enjoy being outside, you want to feel like you’re on vacation all season long –…
A Creative Way to Make an Infinity Edge Beautiful and Functional
You may think that the infinity edge feature is reserved for the pools you see sitting atop a fancy hotel in Los Angeles where the water appears to run right over the edge. Or maybe you’ve enjoyed a pool with this feature while on vacation where the infinity edge appeared to drop off into another…
Benefits of Having a Sun Deck or Tanning Ledge in Your Gunite Swimming Pool
You may hear them referred to as a sun deck or a tanning ledge. No matter what you choose to call this trendy pool feature that’s being incorporated into more and more pool designs, one thing is for certain – you’re going to love the benefits it provides! In all of our years of building custom…
How to Pick the Right Finishes for Your Custom Gunite Swimming Pool
When building a custom gunite swimming pool, you have so many options available to you to truly make it a pool customized to your exact wants. Size and shape are just the beginning! You will get to choose what features you want to include, like built in seating, ledges, steps, fire features,…