Swimming pool contractor & remodel specialist serving Austin & the surrounding Hill Country

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A beautiful custom pool & spa with attractive decking and landscape transforms your backyard into an ideal place to relax and entertain guests.

Let Blue Haven designers create a tailored pool layout to enhance your living space. Whether you want a small inground pool or a “Texas-sized” structure for a big family and lots of outdoor entertaining, we can make it happen.

When you meet with the members of our Austin team, they will evaluate your backyard, ask about your design preferences, learn how your family plans to use a concrete (gunite) pool, and review the variables that impact average inground pool prices in the Austin area.

Along with a pool designer who listens to your needs, you want a professional construction team that truly understands building conditions in the Austin area.

With its hills and lakes, the Live Music Capital region is a beautiful place to live. However, its terrain and topography can make construction a challenge for less-experienced pool contractors.

For example, the Balcones fault line, which passes through the middle of Austin, can present obstacles when excavating an inground pool & spa. Here’s why: West of the fault line, in areas like Bee Cave, Lakeway, and Lago Vista, the soil is usually thin and filled with rocks, such as marlstone, limestone, and dolomite. With this kind of ground to dig up, expertise matters.

Your custom pool builder should be technically capable and staffed with experienced crews to get the job done properly—whether you live in Georgetown, Round Rock, Leander, Cedar Park, Pflugerville, Buda, San Marcos, or anywhere near Austin. Construction—even of a small inground pool—requires true professionals.

With Blue Haven, you will have a team of veterans who have been masterfully constructing custom residential pools in Central Texas for many years. In fact, our local general manager holds the prestigious designation of “Certified Pool Builder” (CPB) from the national Association of Pool & Spa Professionals.

To qualify for this highly sought-after, nationally recognized designation, the pool professional must have at least five years of industry experience and pass a rigorous exam that demonstrates mastery of specific business and technical skills and knowledge, including decking; planning; regulations; hydraulics; insurance; excavation; water treatment; safety practices; interior finishes; heating technologies; mechanical drawings; permitting and building codes; cleaning and filtration systems; and electrical code requirements.

Certainly, Austin homeowners considering a new custom pool want to know about building costs. Average inground pool prices vary depending on a variety of factors.

It’s key to remember is that a well-built swimming pool is an investment that can deliver years of pleasure and enhance the value of your property.

In addition to creating beautiful backyards for homeowners throughout Hill Country, our local team has also completed custom aquatic installations.

This kind of specialized work requires a level of professional skill that goes beyond what a typical Austin residential pool contractor can offer.

We have executed complex pool projects for an assortment of public, commercial, hospitality, and multi-unit residential properties. Among them:

  • 7East – luxury apartments – Austin
  • 26 West University of Texas – student housing – Austin
  • Archer Hotel – Austin
  • Eastside Station luxury apartments – East Austin
  • Lakeshore Pearl luxury apartments – Austin
  • Oaks of Kyle – apartments – Kyle


  • Texas School for the Blind & Visually Impaired – Austin
  • The Catherine luxury apartments – South Congress Austin
  • The Verdance – condominiums – Central Austin
  • Vantage at Georgetown – apartments – Georgetown
  • Waters at Sunrise – apartments – Round Rock
  • Waters at Willow Run – apartments – North Austin

Our company builds and remodels inground pools & spas in Hayes, Travis, Burnet, Caldwell, and Williamson counties.

Call us for a complimentary in-home consultation today for an exceptional design and top-flight quality.

512-345-2583  |  715 Discovery Blvd. #115 |  Cedar Park, Texas  |  78613

What is the process for building a gunite pool? (concrete / shotcrete)

Gunite pool construction involves multiple phases. After planning and designing the pool, these steps typically include: permitting, layout, excavation, steel installation, plumbing, electric, gunite application, installation of tile and coping, deck installation, plaster/interior finish, and start-up.

The sequence here may vary based on local building codes and practices, as well as if the project contains any specialized custom design features.

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