Custom gunite pools

Shaped to Your Yard, Not to a Catalog

A gunite shell is built where it lives. That is why it can bend around a protected oak, drop with a sloping lot, or wrap a narrow side yard that no moulded shell would ever reach.

How it is built

Concrete that arrives as a hose and leaves as a swimming pool

Gunite is a dry mix of cement and sand fired at high pressure onto a steel cage tied in the shape of your pool. A nozzleman carves the profile by hand as it goes on. It is loud, dusty and genuinely worth watching, and it produces a single monolithic shell formed in place rather than dropped in.

That one difference is the whole argument. Because nothing is pre-moulded, the shell can be engineered heavier exactly where your soil report says it needs to be, and shaped around whatever your property refuses to give up.

  • Any shape, depth, or edge treatment your lot and budget will carry
  • Reinforcement schedule set by the engineering, not by a standard spec
  • Tanning ledges, benches, swim-outs and raised walls formed in the same pour
  • Spas, spillways and rock work integrated into the structure rather than added on
See the design process
Custom free form gunite pool with natural stone coping in Houston
Where people usually start

Three directions, then a thousand decisions

Most clients arrive leaning toward one of these. Where it goes from there is entirely yours.

Free form custom gunite pool with curved stone edge

Free Form

Soft curves that read as landscape rather than architecture. Pairs naturally with boulder work, planting and a wooded lot.

Geometric straight line pool with modern coping in Houston

Straight Line

Clean geometry, sharp coping, deliberate symmetry. The right answer when the house has strong lines of its own.

Boulder waterfall and grotto built into a custom Houston pool

Rock & Grotto

Boulder waterfalls, slides and caves. The most structural of the three, and the one that changes how a backyard sounds.

The part nobody photographs

Engineered for ground that moves twice a year

Greater Houston sits on expansive clay that swells with every tropical system and shrinks back through every drought. A shell built here has to be designed for that argument, not just poured into it. That means the soil gets evaluated, the beam and steel get specified accordingly, and hydrostatic pressure gets planned for before anyone breaks ground.

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