Most people have never had heavy equipment in their back yard before, and the uncertainty is worse than the disruption. Here is the actual sequence.
Before anything is dug
We visit your property, talk through what you want, and gather what we need to prepare a quote. If you go ahead, we coordinate with the electrician, the fence installer and the gas installer, and prepare the permit paperwork. This stage is mostly paperwork and phone calls, and it is where delays usually come from — permits and utility scheduling are outside anyone’s control.
Excavation
Heavy machinery comes to the site and the hole is dug. This is the loudest, most disruptive day of the project and also the most dramatic. Expect the yard to look alarming. Spoil has to go somewhere, and either it leaves on trucks or it gets used on site for grading.
Setting the pool
For a fiberglass pool, the shell arrives on a trailer and is lifted into place — either picked with a crane or lifted in with an excavator, depending on the site and the access to it. For a vinyl liner pool, the walls are bolted together, a concrete collar is installed below grade to stabilize the structure, the bottom is built from concrete, vermiculite or sand, and the liner is installed.
The deck
For both pool types, we finish by installing a decorative concrete pool deck. This is the part that determines how the finished project actually looks, and it is the reason we do our own concrete rather than subcontracting it — the pool and the deck get built by the same crew, so the transition between them is deliberate rather than negotiated between two companies.
What affects the schedule
- Permit turnaround in your municipality
- Utility and inspection scheduling
- Weather, particularly for concrete work
- Access to the rear of the property
- Whether retaining walls or significant grading are needed first
We will give you a realistic timeline at the estimate rather than an optimistic one. If something slips, you will hear it from us before you notice it yourself.