Swimming Pool Construction

CUSTOM POOLS

Offering Construction and Remodeling Services in Mission Viejo , Laguna Niguel ,Ladera Ranch,Dana Point , Laguna Beach & beach cities

Concrete pools offer fantastic customisation. Imagine a pool tailored to suit the scape of your back yard, your designer or one to bring to life your wildest pool dreams. Consult with our designers and engineers to assist with the 3D custom pool design. Our architects will begin the process by spray painting the design on the ground area in your yard, where the pool will be located. We want to be certain that you are pleased with the layout before we give the excavation crew the guide for the dig. This step of the process can take up to a week, although this can depend on how many revisions are necessary to complete the layout.

Step 2: The Dig

Custom design also takes into consideration variable site conditions like working in close proximity to structures likes house footings, retaining walls, boundaries or objects .

Orange Blue landscaping provides professional first class customer service that will exceed your expectations throughout the entire procedure. We understand that you are bound to have many questions throughout the duration of the project, and knowing that you can contact your pool contractor anytime to get clarification is crucial and very important to you . This is why we work closely with each one of our Southern Orange County Clients from the initial concept of the project until you are fully satisfied with the final product. We can custom design the perfect pool for your architecture, area constraints and budget.

Concrete is the most commonly used material when it comes to swimming pool construction. A concrete swimming pool is designed to take up full water load along with the capacity to withstand large pressure loads.

The significant loads on the concrete pool structure are the weight of the earth outside the pool and the weight of water held within the pool. The thrust created varies when the water in the pool is emptied for cleaning purposes. It may or may not cause an effect on the concrete based on the design efficiency.

Step 1 - Swimming pool construction begins with an in-home initial consultation. Our pool designers have experience in creating backyard designs that blend and compliment the surrounding natural elements of your home. You can expect your pool designer to fully understand your vision, ideas, and detail. Allowing room for improvements, upgrades, and the features that will make your pool the perfect compliment the lifestyle you like.

Step 2 – PERMITS

Based upon your approval of the final pool design and the finance the design specialist will meet with you again to complete the agreement. After few days have passed it will be time to submit the properly scaled and rendered drawings to your neighborhood association or architectural committee and the local city permitting office for approval before any work may begin.

Step 3 – Start

One of the most popular questions that we are asked is “how long does it take to build a pool start to finish?”. Providing allowance for weather delays, and that many skilled tradesmen do not perform labor on Sundays you can usually expect a pool construction project to take about six to ten weeks .

There are aspects of a project that might require subsequent steps, such as an outdoor kitchen or living area. These additions to the pool project may add 1 to 2 weeks or more to a 10 week pool project depending on the plans and features you might want to include underway .

Step 4 – FORMS & EXCAVATION

Now it all begins. The fun stuff ! Breaking ground with the heavy excavation equipment. All has gone well, the weather is good and we are ready to carefully open the ground in the exact outer shape of the swimming pool. Our team of swimming pool excavation experts will amaze you with their professional abilities. It takes approximately one full day to properly excavate a swimming pool in preparation for the structural reinforcement stage.This excavation is an exciting time for the kids as well as the adults. Everyone loves big machinery, and you will be able to watch your backyard take the shape of your new swimming pool right before your eyes. Our craftspeople make it look easy, but it takes a lot of time and experience along with a lot of hard work to gain the knowledge and ability to do what they do.

Step 5 – REBAR & STUB-OUT

Rebar is important because it adds strength to in-ground swimming pools. Rebar is reinforcing steel that is used to give support to a concrete structure. Rebar is one of the most important materials required for the construction of any type of swimming pool. This is when you finally get an idea of what your pool is going to look like. After the design and permitting processes are complete, A Pools crew will “stake out” the shape of the pool to provide the excavators an outline to follow when digging. would imagine, when the swimming pool is full of water there are tremendous outward forces against all points of the pool structure. It is imperative that the proper measures are taken to structurally reinforce the shell of your swimming pool.

Step 6 – PLUMBING & EQUIPMENT

Referred to as the “Long Plumb” of the total pool plumbing system is the network of pipes that carry the water to and from the pool. It is absolutely imperative that this part of the pool plumbing system be engineered correctly.

Taking into consideration every single component aspect from the swimming pool position, elevation, included water features, and the requirements for “turn-over” as according to the overall capacity of the pool and size of the pool pumps .

Step 7 – TILE & COPING

This is the stage that the pool will begin to look very interesting as our experienced tile installers will amaze you with their careful installation of all tiles and decorative stone materials. Although it is hard work especially in the heat of the summer the results of our masonry craftsmen will put your family in awe as you begin to see the formation of the beautiful natural elements.

Step 8 – DECKING

OrangeBlue offers a complete line of pool decking types, some more common than others and some that are very special ranging from bare concrete slabs to hand crafted natural stone pavers. No matter what decking option you choose for your pool project, you can be assured that the very first step taken is on a quality foundation. We want your beautiful pool decking to last forever.

Step 9 – PLASTER & START-UP

In many cases it may take up to 2 full days and night cycles to completely fill the pool prior to the start-up procedure. During this time we will also test the functionality of all installed components to make sure everything is ready. You will not be able to swim right away until the start-up procedure has completed after or up to at least a week.