Fiberglass

Viking and Latham fiberglass pools, set into Traverse City yards.

Free-form, classic or custom, a fiberglass pool installed to suit the size and style of your landscape.

Free-form, classic or custom: the shell follows the yard

Poolside installs Viking and Latham fiberglass pools around Traverse City, and the first decision is shape. A free-form pool follows the curve of a yard, a classic one keeps clean lines, and a custom one is worked out with you so it suits the size and style of your landscape. Which one fits depends on the lot, so the conversation starts with the yard instead of a catalogue page.

A fiberglass pool arrives as a single molded shell, which is why the choice gets made before anyone digs. The range in Poolside's own photographs is wide: a lagoon shape with a sun shelf and a slide, a rectangular pool beside an exposed-aggregate deck, a free-form pool on a stamped deck above the bay.

The dig, the crane and the backfill

Setting the shell looks like the main event, but it rests on the dig. The hole is excavated to the shape of the shell and the base is graded level, because a shell that sits even slightly off shows it in the waterline for as long as the pool is there. Poolside does its own excavation, and the job photographs show a track loader working beside a shell in its hole and a crane lifting a shell off a truck by the lake.

Once the shell is down, the ground around it is backfilled and the surround is built up to the coping. Poolside also builds pool decks, so the people who dug the hole can answer for the level at the edge.

The packet, the consultation and LightStream

Every fiberglass job starts with a free consultation and an information packet of your options. Request a call back and a Poolside representative contacts you on the next business day, or call (231) 943-7061 between 8:00 AM and 4:00 PM, Monday to Friday.

Ask about the affordable financing options from LightStream when you call. Poolside doesn't publish prices, so the number comes from your yard and the shell you choose, not from a web page.

After the install, the same office stays on to service the pool. Diane P. wrote that once Poolside had installed her indoor saltwater pool, Curtis walked her through the chemistry and checked back several times over the following weeks.

A fiberglass pool shell set in sand between two houses, ready for backfill

Established 2000, BBB Accredited, and 4.7 on Google from 32 reviews. Bruce W. wrote that he has been a Poolside customer since 2006, when they installed his inground pool.

A shell isn't the only way to get a pool in the ground.

If you'd rather have vinyl walls with a waterfall or a grotto, look at Fort Wayne vinyl pools. If the pool should be formed to a drawing, with its deck and filtration in the same job, read about custom concrete pools.

Not sure which family suits the yard? Talk it through in a free consultation with Poolside, or find the hours and the address on the contact page.

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