New Construction

Gunite Pool Construction

Gunite pools are built shape by shape on your property — steel rebar first, then a sprayed concrete shell, a curing period, interior finish, and decking. Because nothing is pre-formed, you control size, depth, and layout, including tanning ledges, spas, and custom steps.

This is the answer when a factory shell won't work: an irregular lot, a mature tree to build around, a specific depth profile, or a backyard with no access route wide enough for a delivery truck. The shell itself commonly lasts 50 years or more.

Skipping the curing step is where cheap gunite jobs go wrong. Concrete gains strength by staying wet, not by drying, and in a city averaging close to 100°F in August that difference shows up in the shell you're stuck with.

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Pool contractors spraying gunite to form a custom pool shell in McAllen, TX

New Construction

Fiberglass Pool Installation

Fiberglass pools arrive as a single pre-formed shell that gets set into an excavated hole, leveled, plumbed, and backfilled. With no concrete to cure, most installs are finished and swimmable within one to two weeks of the first shovel, at roughly half the cost of a custom gunite build.

The surface is non-porous, so algae struggles to take hold. It also contains no calcium for McAllen's very hard water to leach out, which means it never develops the sandpaper etching that ages a plastered pool here — and never needs replastering.

The one real constraint is width. Wide-load rules cap highway transport at about 16 feet, so if you want a pool wider than that, or the shell can't physically reach your backyard, gunite is the route.

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Crane setting a fiberglass pool shell into an excavated McAllen backyard

Renewal

Pool Resurfacing & Replastering

The interior finish is the waterproof layer between your water and the shell, and it wears out on a schedule: roughly 7 to 12 years for white plaster, 10 to 15 for quartz, 15 to 20 or more for pebble. Resurfacing chips the old finish back to sound concrete and puts a new one on.

You need it when the floor turns rough enough to scrape feet, when a chalky band at the tile line survives scrubbing, or when staining outlasts a professional acid wash. All three are the same message from the same layer.

Left alone, a failing finish stops being cosmetic. Water works into the cracks and reaches the shell underneath, and a resurfacing job becomes a structural repair.

Pool Remodeling

A remodel renews everything attached to the shell rather than just the finish: waterline tile, coping, decking, equipment, lighting, and often the shape itself with a sun shelf, bench, or attached spa cut into the existing structure.

It's the right call when failures start clustering. Pools get built all at once, so their components age together — when the plaster, the tile, and the deck all give out in the same couple of years, that's the whole wear layer reaching the end at once.

Doing those items separately over five years costs meaningfully more than doing them together, because each one means draining the pool and mobilizing a crew again.

Pool Decking & Patios

Decking covers everything from the coping at the pool's edge out to the end of your patio: the surface, the base under it, the drainage, and the joints that let it all move without tearing. It's the part of a pool people think about least and stand on most.

In McAllen it's also a heat decision. Dark concrete decks have been measured above 140°F in direct summer sun, hot enough to burn skin in seconds, while light travertine on the same site sat between 95°F and 110°F. That gap decides whether the backyard is usable at three in the afternoon.

A deck that drains toward the pool or the house instead of away from it sends runoff and debris where you least want them, and undermines its own base over time.

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Concrete crew pouring and screeding a new pool deck at a McAllen home

Repair

Pool Repair & Leak Detection

Leak detection is the work of proving where water is escaping — the shell, a fitting, the skimmer, or buried plumbing — before anyone breaks concrete looking for it. Pressure testing isolates the lines, and dye testing pins down the rest.

First, though, it's worth knowing whether you have a leak at all. Evaporation alone pulls a quarter to a half inch a day off an uncovered pool in this climate, and a free bucket test at home will separate normal loss from a real problem in 24 hours.

Ignoring a genuine leak gets expensive in two directions: on a 15-by-30 pool, an extra inch a day is about 8,400 gallons a month, and water escaping under a slab washes out the base your deck sits on.

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Pool technician pressure testing plumbing lines to find a leak at a McAllen home

Pool Services in McAllen, TX