From bare sand to blue water.

A pool starts as a hole in the ground and a shell on a truck. These photos are sorted by what is in the frame: the dig and the crane lift, finished outdoor pools, indoor pools, and the stone and water features that finish a yard.

Want to see how a particular kind of pool goes in? Start with the services, or request a free consultation and a representative will call you on the next business day.

Building it

Crane lifts, shells sitting in the excavation, a crew working inside a shell, a liner pool taking on water and a small spa shell set in sand. Poolside handles the excavation and preparation before the pool or spa goes in.

  • Crane lifting a fiberglass pool shell off a delivery truck
  • Aerial view of a fiberglass pool shell set in an excavation, with a crew and a track loader beside it
  • Crane lifting a fiberglass pool shell into place beside a lake
  • Fiberglass pool shell set in sand with a house on either side
  • Fiberglass pool shell sitting in a dug-out excavation
  • Small spa shell set in sand in front of a gabled house
  • Two workers preparing the inside of a pool shell
  • Dark liner pool filling with water while a skid steer grades the ground beside a lake
  • Bare concrete pool shell with steps and a lake on the horizon
  • Spa and pool shell set in the ground beside a grey house

Outdoor pools

Free-form shapes with slides, a lagoon pool with a sun shelf, a rectangular fiberglass pool with an exposed-aggregate deck, and pools on lakeside lots and farmhouse yards.

  • Free-form pool with a slide and a stamped concrete deck
  • Lagoon-shaped pool with a sun shelf, loungers and a slide
  • Pool beside a lake with a red concrete deck
  • Rectangular fiberglass pool with an exposed-aggregate deck and a crew member at the edge
  • Aerial view of a white farmhouse with a pool and patio
  • Pool with a stainless steel handrail and a marina behind it
  • Pool with a slide, an iron fence and a cabin behind
  • Pool edge with a band of mosaic tile at the waterline

Indoor pools

One under a timber ceiling, one a vinyl pool framed by slate tile and timber walls. Vinyl liners and steel walls are covered on the vinyl pools page.

  • Indoor pool under a timber ceiling
  • Indoor vinyl pool with slate tile and timber walls

Stone and water features

A waterfall over fieldstone, a stone wall behind a slide, flagstone coping at an infinity edge, a curved retaining wall on the lake, a gazebo on a concrete deck, and a close look at mosaic tile along a waterline.

  • Raised-wall pool with a waterfall spilling over fieldstone and a house behind
  • Raised pool with a stone waterfall wall and a slide
  • Infinity-edge pool with flagstone coping and a lake beyond
  • Patio with a gazebo and a concrete deck beside a pool
  • Curved stone retaining wall on a lakeside lot
  • Close-up of mosaic tile along a pool waterline

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