Swimming Pool Contractor & Remodel Expert Serving Southern Illinois

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From Granite City to Glen Carbon and Maryville to Edwardsville, our team at Blue Haven Pools designs and builds complete inground pools, spas, renovations, and custom outdoor living spaces.

Along with a beautiful swimming environment that reflects your aesthetic taste, we believe that your new gunite pool and backyard makeover should also align with your family’s lifestyle.

You can have a pool and outdoor setting that serves as a backdrop for the kinds of outdoor activities in which you want to engage—be it for quiet relaxation in a shady spot, playing a game of water volleyball, or for grilling burgers with friends and family.

Our team can complete all of the complementary additions to transform your backyard into your private leisure center. For starters, we can plan and build the surrounding pool deck, patio, and hardscape.

Choose from a range of patio material options such as brick, flagstone, travertine, poured concrete, stamped or decorative concrete, Sundeck®, and decorative pavers.

Since what goes on and around the deck and exterior space also makes a difference, we can include popular amenities such as:

  • Retaining walls
  • Built-in island BBQs
  • Fire pits
  • Outdoor fireplaces
  • Pizza ovens
  • Arbors and pergolas
  • Pavilions / outdoor living rooms
  • Steps and walkways
  • Fencing and walls

Planning Your Backyard Makeover in Illinois

Our team is here to help guide you on as you embark on this major home improvement project.

We provide high-quality materials and craftsmanship. In fact, our custom designs have received gold, silver, and bronze design awards from the local chapter of the national pool-industry trade group.

Our designers can create the pool of your dreams with our in-house custom design center. Using professional computer-aided drafting (CAD), they can develop accurate, highly detailed plans for your exterior space.

Or, we can build your pool indoors if that’s what you seek. A number of gunite pool construction phases are executed by in-house crews, such as the excavation, steel rebar installation, and the plumbing system.

The use of gunite—a special blend of concrete applied at high pressure—provides a durable structure for your inground pool. We will finish out your gunite shell with your choice of interior finish: Traditional marcite plaster, SmartBrite® ColorQuartz™, or PebbleSheen® interior finish.

While we specialize in swimming pool construction, our office also provides services for existing pools & spas with weekly pool service, winter closings, and spring openings.

We also serve as an authorized Hayward equipment warranty station. Pool owners wishing to update an inground pool can take advantage of our renovation services.

Our remodeling offerings include equipment modernizations for water- and energy efficiency, as well as convenience updates such as automation and remote controls.

We are committed to providing an unmatched level of service. We are also proud members of the Association of Pool & Spa Professionals and of the BBB of Eastern Missouri and Southern Illinois, in which we maintain an A+ rating.

Best of all, as an industry pioneer for building efficient, fuss-free pools, Blue Haven has long offered a complete line of equipment that saves pool owners time, money, and more.

To begin learning about them, check out our exclusive, high-tech SmartFeatures®.

Learn more about building or renovating a pool and complete outdoor living space. Contact us for a free in-home estimate, and design concept.

636-940-2169 | Serving Southern Illinois, Illinois | 62025

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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