Good bones, tired finishes.
The Valley is full of structurally sound pools from the 1990s wearing chalked plaster and popped tile. If the shell is good, a remodel buys you a new pool for half the cost of digging one. If it is not, we will show you why before you spend a dollar on cosmetics.
What a remodel can include
- Interior refinish: pebble, mini-pebble, or polished finishes
- Waterline tile, coping, and deck replacement or overlay
- Equipment replacement: variable-speed pumps, heaters, salt systems
- LED lighting, added returns, and automation retrofits
- Adding a baja shelf, bench, or spa to an existing shell where the structure allows
- Raising or reworking the bond beam for a new edge profile
What we check before quoting
- Pressure test on every plumbing line: remodeling over a leak is malpractice
- Shell soundings for hollow spots and delamination
- Bond beam and expansion joint condition
- Electrical bonding, because 1990s standards were not today's
- Equipment pad layout and what is worth keeping
The conversation we sometimes have to have
About one pool in ten that we inspect is not worth remodeling: a shell moving on expansive soil, plumbing failed in three places, structural cracks that cosmetics would only hide. When that is the news, we deliver it with the test results in hand and a straight comparison of remodel-versus-rebuild costs. Twice in recent years the honest answer was a rebuild, and both owners are glad the plaster crew never showed up first.
A remodel is also the natural moment to add the things the yard never had: shade, a kitchen, real lighting. See outdoor living, or read how the schedule works; remodels follow the same phases with the digging mostly skipped.
Start with a conversation, not a contract.
An hour in your yard or our Old Town studio. No obligation, no deposit, and you keep the honest budget range we give you.