Irving Pool Builders: New Pool Construction, Design, Remodeling & Repair
Custom gunite and fiberglass pools for residential and commercial properties across Irving and the mid-cities. Free 3D design, free written estimate, licensed and insured.
- ✓Licensed & Insured
- ✓15+ Years in North Texas
- ✓Free In-Home 3D Design
- ✓Se Habla Español
Why Irving Chooses Irving Pool Builders
- ✓Over 15 years building and servicing pools across Irving, Las Colinas and the mid-cities
- ✓Gunite, shotcrete and fiberglass construction, plus full remodels on pools we did not build
- ✓Experienced with tight zero-lot-line access, conveyor spoil removal and long gunite hose runs
- ✓HOA architectural review packets prepared as part of the job, not billed as an extra
- ✓Residential and commercial, from backyard pools to hotel, corporate campus and HOA pools
- ✓Insured and bonded, Pool & Hot Tub Alliance members, written workmanship warranty
- ✓Free in-home 3D design so you see the finished backyard before anyone breaks ground
- ✓Se habla español
How It Works
1. Design, site check and written quote
We measure the yard, look honestly at access and soil, check what the HOA will want to see, and design the pool in 3D before anybody digs. The quote is itemized so you can see what each feature costs and remove the ones you do not want.
2. Permits, HOA submittal and excavation
We prepare the architectural review packet, pull the City of Irving permits and book the inspections. Our own crew handles the dig, the steel and the plumbing, so the person who quoted your job is still the person running it in week six.
3. Gunite, tile, interior and deck
Shell placed at 4,000 PSI and wet-cured for a week. Then waterline tile, coping, the interior finish and the decking. Equipment gets sized to your pool rather than to whatever was on the truck, which is how you end up with a pump that costs less to run.
4. Fill, startup and handover
We fill it, run the 28-day plaster startup brushing and staged chemistry, and walk you through every valve and button until you genuinely understand your own equipment pad. Weekly service is there if you would rather not think about it.
Our Pool Services in Irving, TX
Gunite & Shotcrete Pool Construction
Gunite pool construction is how you get a pool in the exact shape your yard wants, instead of a shape somebody in a factory picked out a decade ago. Concrete gets shot through a hose against a tied steel cage, so the finished shell is monolithic: no panels, no seams, nowhere for water to find a way out.
Fiberglass Pool Installation
Fiberglass pool installation is the fast lane: a shell molded at a factory, trucked in, and set with a crane, so a straightforward job goes from bare dirt to swimming in two or three weeks. If your calendar is the constraint rather than your imagination, that's a strong argument and we'll make it for you.
Vinyl Liner Pools & Liner Replacement
Vinyl liner replacement is a two to four day job, and if your pattern has faded to a flat pale wash or the waterline material cracks when you press a thumbnail into it, you're already due. Vinyl liner pools are a small minority in Irving, which means most owners of one have a hard time finding a company that still stocks the parts.
Pool Remodeling & Renovation
Pool remodeling is for the jobs that change the shape of the thing rather than just the color: an attached spa with a spillover, a tanning ledge cut into the shallow end, a deep end filled in because 1978 believed in diving boards. South Irving is full of pools poured in the 1970s that are structurally sound and stylistically frozen, and that's exactly the pool this page is about.
Pool Resurfacing & Replastering
Pool resurfacing is due when the floor stops feeling smooth and starts feeling like a driveway, and somebody climbs out of the shallow end with a scraped toe. That's the cream coat gone and the plaster body exposed to the water, and Irving's hard fill water isn't gentle with what happens next.
Waterline Tile & Coping
Waterline tile is six inches of material that has to survive sunscreen, body oil, calcium, UV and a hard freeze every couple of Januaries, while being the first thing every visitor's eye lands on. It's also the cheapest place in the entire project to make a pool look expensive, which is why we spend more time on it than the line item suggests.
Pool Decking & Hardscape
Pool decking is where new pool budgets quietly go to die, and it's also where you'll feel the difference every single day you use the thing. Standard broom-finished gray concrete will read around 140 degrees on an Irving afternoon in July, which is why everybody hops from the back door to the water like the patio owes them money.
Spa & Hot Tub Installation
A spa is the part of the build you'll actually use in December. Irving gets roughly four months where the pool is genuinely inviting on its own, and a heated spa turns a good chunk of the other eight into a reason to walk outside on a Wednesday night in a dressing gown.
Water Features & Waterfalls
People buy water features for the way they look and keep them for the way they sound. A sheer descent running into the pool covers a surprising amount of State Highway 114 in the background, and if you live anywhere near the DFW Airport approach you'll appreciate that considerably more than the photographs suggest.
Pool Lighting & LED Retrofits
Pool light replacement takes an afternoon and changes how the whole backyard reads after dark more than anything else you can spend the same money on. If your pool still runs a 500-watt incandescent, you own a device that costs real money to operate, eats bulbs every couple of seasons, and makes the water look faintly yellow, like a hotel corridor.
Pool Automation & Controls
Pool automation is a controller on the equipment pad that runs the pumps, valves, heater, lights and water features on a schedule and puts all of it on your phone. It's the upgrade nobody puts on their wish list and nobody gives up once they have it.
Pool Heaters & Heat Pumps
A pool heater is the difference between a pool you use from June to August and one you use from March to November. On a new build it's the cheapest big upgrade to include, because the pad is already open and the gas line is still a trench rather than a driveway you'd have to cut.
Variable-Speed Pumps & Filtration
A variable-speed pool pump is the one equipment decision that keeps saving you money for the next fifteen years, which is why it's the first thing we specify on a new build. An old single-speed motor spins at 3,450 RPM every second it runs, whether the pool needs that or not, while a variable-speed unit achieves the same daily turnover at 1,200 to 1,800 RPM.
Saltwater Chlorination Systems
A saltwater pool is a chlorine pool, and clearing that up first saves everybody a conversation. The salt cell runs a low current through dissolved salt and produces chlorine on site, continuously, at a steady low level, so what you're actually buying is the end of hauling jugs of liquid chlorine home in the trunk of your car every fortnight.
Pool Leak Detection & Repair
Pool leak detection starts with a bucket and 24 hours, and that part you can do yourself for nothing. In an Irving July a pool gives up about a quarter inch a day to evaporation and that's simply the climate, but half an inch a day is a leak and worth chasing quickly.
Weekly Pool Cleaning & Maintenance
Weekly pool cleaning isn't difficult, it's just weekly, forever, and a North Texas summer is where the weekly part goes wrong. Water at 90 degrees burns through free chlorine in about a day, our fill water arrives loaded with calcium, and one good thunderstorm off the Elm Fork will drop enough leaf litter and phosphate into a clear pool to have it green by Thursday.
Commercial Pool Construction & Service
Commercial pool construction and service solves a completely different problem to a backyard pool, and Las Colinas has a density of hotels, corporate campuses and multifamily communities that's unusual even for the Metroplex. Nobody staying at a conference hotel off State Highway 114 cares whether the tile is glass mosaic.
Pool Safety Fencing & Covers
A removable mesh pool safety fence stands four feet tall, gives a determined three-year-old no handholds or footholds, and comes out in about twenty minutes when you want the yard back for a party. For most Irving backyards it's the right first layer, and it's the single thing on this whole site we'd most like you to buy.
Pool Demolition & Removal
Pool removal is sometimes the correct professional advice, and we'll do that job without spending an hour trying to sell you a remodel you didn't ask about. An inherited shell that has been green since you moved in, a rental where the liability outweighs the rent, a homeowner who would rather have a lawn and a workshop than a maintenance schedule: those are all good reasons and we've heard every one of them.
What Irving Customers Say
Two builders told us our side yard was too tight and quoted us like it was a favor. These guys measured it, said they would run the hose from the street and take spoil out by conveyor, and put the extra cost in the quote instead of springing it on us later. Pool has been in two years.
They put the HOA packet together for us, which I did not know was a thing anybody did. Approved first submission. The 3D design was accurate enough that the finished pool looks like the picture, which apparently is not normal.
Old pool from the seventies, awful plaster, tile falling off. They explained the tile was coming off because the expansion joint had failed, fixed that first, then retiled and did a quartz finish. Nobody else who quoted even mentioned the joint.
Variable-speed pump and a new cartridge filter. The pad is quiet now, which I did not expect, and the summer electric bill dropped enough to notice. They also did not try to sell me a heater I said I did not want.
Full build with a spa and a raised wall. Eleven weeks, and the one week it slipped they called before I had to. The tanning ledge with bubblers has been the best money we spent on the whole project.
Irving Pool Builders is an insured swimming pool contractor with over 15 years of experience designing, building and servicing pools for residential and commercial properties in Irving, TX.
Our work covers gunite and shotcrete pool construction, fiberglass pool installation, vinyl liner replacement, pool remodeling and renovation, resurfacing and replastering, waterline tile and coping, pool decking and hardscape, spa and hot tub construction, water features, LED pool lighting, pool automation, heaters and heat pumps, variable-speed pumps and filtration, saltwater chlorination, leak detection, weekly maintenance, and commercial pools for hotels, corporate campuses, apartment communities and HOAs.
We build with PebbleTec and polished quartz interiors, glass mosaic and large-format porcelain waterline tile, travertine coping and decking, cartridge and DE filtration, sheer descents, bubblers and laminar jets, and chemical automation that holds the water balanced on its own.
North Texas conditions drive most of our engineering decisions. Expansive clay moves with the seasons, so our shells get a full steel cage tied on 12-inch centers and a thickened bond beam. Our fill water is hard enough to scale a salt cell inside a season, so we size cells with headroom and put descaling on the calendar.
And a hard freeze arrives every few winters and finds every pool without freeze protection, so we install controllers that start circulation by themselves.
A large share of Irving builds also sit in HOA neighborhoods with architectural review and on lots with six feet of side-yard access, and we plan the submittals and the gunite hose run before we quote rather than after.
Irving Pool Builders is licensed, insured and bonded, a member of the Pool & Hot Tub Alliance, and every construction, remodel and resurfacing project carries a written workmanship warranty.
About Irving Pool Builders in Irving, TX
Irving Pool Builders has spent more than 15 years putting pools into yards between Las Colinas and the mid-cities, and a fair number of those yards told us no the first time we looked at them. Six feet of side-yard access, a fence line the neighbor will not move, a mature pecan directly over the only crane path.
Working that out is most of the job here, and it is why we walk the site properly before quoting instead of pricing a pool off a satellite image and hoping.
We run our own crews. The person who measures your yard is the person answering the phone in week six, and the excavation, steel, plumbing, gunite, tile and deck work is done by people we employ rather than whoever bid lowest that month.
It is a slower way to grow and it is the reason our spring schedule fills by February. We are licensed, insured and bonded, we carry general liability and workers' compensation, we are members of the Pool & Hot Tub Alliance, and every construction, remodel and resurfacing project comes with a written workmanship warranty in plain English.
The rest of the job is being straight with you about North Texas. Clay moves and will find any weakness in a shell or a deck. Our water is hard enough that a neglected salt cell scales in a season and a heat exchanger follows it.
Every few winters something arrives from the north and reminds the whole Metroplex why freeze protection exists. We will tell you when a repair beats a remodel, when standard white plaster is genuinely good enough, and when the fiberglass shell you were talked out of was actually the right call. Se habla español, and the estimate is always free.
Recent Projects Across the Las Colinas and mid-cities area
Service Areas
Irving Pool Builders serves Irving, TX and surrounding communities including:
Commercial Pool Construction & Service in Irving and Las Colinas
Las Colinas carries a density of hotels, corporate campuses and multifamily communities that is unusual even for the Metroplex, and we build, remodel and maintain pools for all of them, along with HOAs and community centers across Irving.
Every property runs to Texas Administrative Code Chapter 265: VGB-compliant anti-entrapment main drain covers, a functioning ADA means of entry, turnover rates matched to the design bather load, documented daily logs, and an automated chemical controller so free chlorine and pH are recorded rather than estimated.
Property managers get scheduled service with written reports, one phone number, and construction phased around occupancy so the amenity closes in February and not over a holiday weekend.
- ✓Hotels, conference centers and hospitality properties
- ✓Corporate campuses and fitness center pools
- ✓Apartment and condominium communities
- ✓HOAs and community centers
- ✓Texas Administrative Code Chapter 265 compliance
- ✓VGB-compliant main drain covers and ADA pool lifts
- ✓Automated chemical controllers with documented daily logs
- ✓Construction and remodels phased around your occupancy
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does it cost to build a pool in Irving, TX?
The honest answer is that size, depth, interior finish, decking and features move the number far more than anything else. A modest fiberglass shell with a small paver deck sits at the bottom of the range. A mid-size gunite pool with a tanning ledge and travertine decking sits in the middle.
Add an attached spa, a raised wall with sheer descents, automation and an outdoor kitchen and you are in a different bracket entirely.
On tight Irving lots, access is the wildcard nobody mentions: if the gunite hose has to run 150 feet from the street and spoil comes out by conveyor, that costs real money and we put it in the quote up front rather than as a change order.
How long does a new pool take to build?
Eight to twelve weeks from the first cut to the first swim is typical for a gunite pool, and a fiberglass install runs two to three weeks. Rain moves both. The sequence is excavation, steel and plumbing, gunite, a week of wet curing, tile and coping, decking, interior finish, then fill and startup.
If your neighborhood requires architectural review, add two to four weeks at the front for the submittal, which is why we start that paperwork the same week you sign.
Do I need HOA approval to build a pool in Irving?
In most of Valley Ranch, Hackberry Creek and the newer Las Colinas neighborhoods, yes. Architectural review committees typically want a site plan showing the pool location and setbacks, the equipment pad location, fence and drainage details, and sometimes deck materials. We prepare that packet as part of the job. It is worth doing properly, because a committee stopping work three days into demolition is expensive for everyone.
Gunite or fiberglass, which should I choose?
Gunite if you want a specific shape, a tanning ledge cut where you want it, a vanishing edge, or anything the yard's geometry demands. Fiberglass if speed matters more than shape, if you want the lowest-maintenance surface available, or if your lot is mostly rock and you would rather dig less.
Fiberglass shells stop around 16 feet wide because that is what fits down a highway, and they need crane access, which several older Irving lots with mature trees and overhead lines simply do not have. We check that before you fall in love with a brochure.
Do you service and repair pools you did not build?
Yes, and a good share of our work is exactly that. South Irving is full of pools poured in the 1970s that need a new interior, new tile, a variable-speed pump, a leak found or the whole equipment pad rebuilt. We take on weekly service, repairs, resurfacing and full remodels on any pool in the area regardless of who built it.
Do you build and maintain commercial pools?
We do. Hotels, corporate campuses, apartment and condo communities, HOAs and community centers across Irving and Las Colinas use us for construction, remodels, resurfacing and scheduled maintenance. Everything runs to Texas Administrative Code Chapter 265: VGB-compliant main drain covers, an ADA means of entry, turnover rates matched to the bather load, and an automated chemical controller so free chlorine and pH are documented rather than guessed.