Irving Pool Builders provides professional gunite & shotcrete pool construction in Irving, TX for residential and commercial properties across the Las Colinas and mid-cities area. Gunite pool construction is how you get a pool in the exact shape your yard wants, instead of a shape somebody in a factory picked out a decade ago. Concrete gets shot through a hose against a tied steel cage, so the finished shell is monolithic: no panels, no seams, nowhere for water to find a way out. Dry-mix gunite and wet-mix shotcrete both do that. Dry mix meets its water at the nozzle and gives a good nozzleman more control in tight radii and on steep transitions. Wet mix arrives pre-batched and places faster on high-volume shells. Which one your yard gets depends on access and cubic yards, and we'll walk you through the tradeoff instead of quoting one because it's what our truck does. Access is the part nobody warns you about in Irving. Valley Ranch and Hackberry Creek are full of houses with a six-foot side yard and a fence line you can't move, so plenty of our builds run 150 feet of hose from the street and haul spoil out by conveyor while a neighbor watches from an upstairs window. It's slower. We price it on day zero rather than discovering it on day one. The structure underneath isn't negotiable, and North Texas expansive clay is the reason. Soil that swells in spring and shrinks in August will find any weakness you leave it. So: rebar tied on 12-inch centers, a thickened bond beam, steel properly doweled where the spa meets the pool, and a shell placed at 4,000 PSI so the concrete is dense all the way through instead of sandy in the corners. Then a week of wet curing before anyone sets tile. Hosing a green shell twice a day looks like nothing is happening. It's the cheapest strength you'll ever buy. Design comes first, though. We lay a pool out to the sight lines from inside the house, because that's where you'll look at it for most of the year. Geometric shapes with a raised wall and scuppers suit the cleaner Las Colinas architecture. Freeform works where there's mature landscape to build around. A tanning ledge or Baja shelf sits at 9 to 12 inches. A vanishing edge only works if the grade genuinely falls away from you, which in Irving it usually doesn't, and we'll say so before you pay for a rendering of one. Paperwork is ours. We pull the City of Irving permits, run the inspections, and prepare the HOA architectural review submittal where the neighborhood requires one. Here's the honest version. If what you want is a 14 by 28 rectangle, you want it swimmable by Memorial Day, and you're not attached to a custom shape, gunite is the wrong tool and fiberglass will cost you less. Gunite earns its money on odd lots, courtyard pools, pool and spa combinations, and anything with a shelf, a bench or a bar stool in it. Most of our new builds run 8 to 12 weeks from first cut to first swim.
With 15+ years of experience, our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — gunite and shotcrete shells, one-piece fiberglass pool shells, PebbleTec and polished quartz interiors, glass mosaic and large-format porcelain tile, travertine coping and decking, variable-speed pumps — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Irving and nearby communities including Coppell, Grapevine, Southlake, Colleyville.
What We Handle
Everything our gunite & shotcrete pool construction in Irving covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of gunite & shotcrete pool construction work in Irving, TX. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- gunite pool construction
- shotcrete pool shell
- new inground pool builder
- custom pool design and 3D rendering
- geometric and freeform pool shapes
- tanning ledge, Baja shelf and sun deck
- vanishing edge and perimeter overflow pools
- small yard and courtyard pools
- pool and spa combination construction
- pool engineering for expansive clay soil
- Irving permits and pool inspections
- pool construction timeline and phases
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Irving services.
Materials, equipment and how we do gunite & shotcrete pool construction
The difference between gunite & shotcrete pool construction that lasts and gunite & shotcrete pool construction that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with gunite and shotcrete shells, one-piece fiberglass pool shells, PebbleTec and polished quartz interiors, glass mosaic and large-format porcelain tile, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Irving job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. 15+ years of pool work in the Las Colinas and mid-cities area means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do gunite & shotcrete pool construction outside Irving
Irving Pool Builders covers Irving and the surrounding communities of the Las Colinas and mid-cities area. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Gunite & Shotcrete Pool Construction in Coppell, TX — Dallas County, population 43,000
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- Gunite & Shotcrete Pool Construction in Southlake, TX — Tarrant County, population 31,000
- Gunite & Shotcrete Pool Construction in Colleyville, TX — Tarrant County, population 26,000
- Gunite & Shotcrete Pool Construction in Flower Mound, TX — Denton County, population 76,000
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Start on the Irving Pool Builders homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Irving Chooses Irving Pool Builders
- ✓Over 15 years building and servicing pools across Irving, Las Colinas and the mid-cities
- ✓Gunite, shotcrete and fiberglass construction, plus full remodels on pools we did not build
- ✓Experienced with tight zero-lot-line access, conveyor spoil removal and long gunite hose runs
- ✓HOA architectural review packets prepared as part of the job, not billed as an extra
Every gunite & shotcrete pool construction project in Irving gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (844) 511-2320 for a free gunite & shotcrete pool construction free estimate in Irving, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.