Grand Prairie Pool Pros: Pool Remodeling, Resurfacing, Repair & New Construction
Residential and commercial pool contractors serving Grand Prairie and the DFW Metroplex. Free 3D design, free written estimates, licensed and insured, 15+ years in North Texas.
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Our Pool Services in Grand Prairie, TX
Gunite & Shotcrete Pool Construction
A gunite pool is concrete sprayed at high pressure over a steel cage, which is why it can be any shape you can draw on a napkin. In Grand Prairie it's also the only structure we trust against Blackland Prairie clay, soil that swells when it rains and shrinks when it doesn't, and spends the whole year trying to crack whatever you put in it.
Fiberglass Pool Installation
Fiberglass pool installation is the fast route: a one-piece shell molded in a factory, delivered on a truck, craned into a prepared hole, and holding water the same week. Most installs run two to three weeks door to door against two to three months for gunite, so if your goal is swimming this summer rather than next, that speed is the entire argument.
Vinyl Liner Pools & Liner Replacement
Vinyl liner replacement takes two to four days and costs a fraction of replastering a gunite pool, which is what keeps liner pools cheap to own long after the first liner gives up. The hard part in North Texas is finding a contractor who still works on them, because gunite dominates here and plenty of crews have never hung a liner in their lives.
Pool Remodeling & Renovation
Pool remodeling is what you do when the shell is sound and the decade it was built in is the actual problem. Grand Prairie is full of pools poured between 1978 and 1995: kidney shaped, white plaster gone gray, a six-inch strip of blue waterline tile, a diving board nobody has touched since the kids left for college, and a deck the color of an old sidewalk.
Pool Resurfacing & Replastering
Pool resurfacing in Grand Prairie means chipping the failed plaster back to sound gunite and hand-troweling a new interior over it, not painting over what is already there. You can usually feel that it's time before you can see it, when the floor goes from smooth to something between sandpaper and a cheese grater and the kids start climbing out with scraped toes.
Waterline Tile & Coping
Replacing waterline tile and coping is the cheapest way to make a tired pool look new, and it takes days rather than weeks. It's also the repair people put off, right up until the tiles start popping off one at a time and the pool begins to look like it's losing teeth.
Pool Decking & Hardscape
Pool deck resurfacing fixes the two things wrong with most 1980s slabs at once: it's cracked, and in July it's hot enough to make you hop from foot to foot. If the concrete underneath is still sound, a spray-texture cool deck coating over the top costs a fraction of a tear-out and buys you another decade.
Spa & Hot Tub Installation
Adding a spa to an existing pool usually means raising a bond beam off the shell you already own, tying new steel into old, and spilling the spa back into the pool. It's the upgrade that turns a four-month pool into something you use on a Tuesday night in February, which in Grand Prairie is roughly eight extra months of backyard.
Water Features & Waterfalls
Pool waterfalls get bought for the way they look and kept for the way they sound. A sheer descent running over a raised wall does a genuinely good job of burying traffic noise off Highway 161, and that's acoustics rather than a sales line.
Pool Lighting & LED Retrofits
Swapping a pool light for LED takes an afternoon, drops roughly 500 watts down to about 40, and lasts around 30,000 hours instead of a couple of seasons. If your current light hums, eats bulbs, and turns the water a sort of nicotine yellow, you're running 1980s technology and paying a monthly fee for the privilege.
Pool Automation & Controls
Pool automation puts the pump, heater, valves, lights and water features on a schedule and on your phone. In North Texas the feature that actually justifies the cost isn't the app, it's freeze protection: when the air drops below your set point the controller starts circulation on its own, at two in the morning, whether you remembered or not.
Pool Heaters & Heat Pumps
A pool heater turns a four-month pool into a nine-month pool, which in North Texas is the best return per dollar in the whole backyard. There are two technologies and two completely different arguments: gas is fast and expensive to run, an electric heat pump is cheap to run and slow.
Variable-Speed Pumps & Filtration
A variable-speed pump moves the same daily turnover as your old single-speed at roughly half the RPM and a small fraction of the power. If your equipment pad is loud enough to hear from the kitchen, that noise is the sound of money leaving the house.
Saltwater Chlorination Systems
A saltwater pool is still a chlorine pool. The cell electrolyses dissolved salt into chlorine on site, all day, at a low steady level, so what changes is how the chlorine gets into the water rather than what sanitizes it.
Pool Leak Detection & Repair
Pool leak detection starts with a test you can run yourself for free. Float a bucket of pool water on the top step, mark the level inside and outside, switch off the autofill and wait 24 hours: if the pool dropped more than the bucket did, you have a leak worth finding, and finding it quickly matters more than the water bill does.
Weekly Pool Cleaning & Maintenance
Weekly pool cleaning covers the whole list in one visit: test and balance the water, brush the walls and waterline, net the surface, vacuum, empty both baskets, read the filter pressure, and look over the equipment for whatever is about to fail next. Pool care isn't difficult, it's relentless, and a North Texas summer is where good intentions go to die.
Commercial Pool Construction & Service
Commercial pool service gets judged on three things: the amenity is open, the health inspector signs off, and nothing happens that ends up in front of a lawyer. Nobody at a 200-unit apartment community has ever called us to talk about the tile.
Pool Safety Fencing & Covers
A removable mesh safety fence stands four feet tall, gives a child nothing to grip or climb, latches itself, and comes out in about 20 minutes when you're hosting or when the kids have grown. It's the most effective thing you can put between a toddler and your pool, and it's the layer most Grand Prairie backyards are missing.
Pool Demolition & Removal
Pool removal comes in two versions, and the difference between them doesn't show up until you sell the house. A partial removal breaks the top two to three feet of shell, punches drainage holes through the floor, pushes the rubble in and caps it with soil.
Grand Prairie Pool Pros is an insured swimming pool contractor with over 15 years of experience remodeling, resurfacing, building and servicing pools for residential and commercial properties in Grand Prairie, TX.
Our work covers pool remodeling and renovation, pool resurfacing and replastering, gunite and shotcrete pool construction, fiberglass pool installation, vinyl liner replacement, waterline tile and coping, pool decking and hardscape, spa and hot tub installation, water features, LED pool lighting, pool automation, heaters and heat pumps, variable-speed pumps and filtration, saltwater chlorination, leak detection, weekly maintenance, and commercial pools for hotels, apartment communities and HOAs.
We work with PebbleTec and polished quartz interiors, glass mosaic and porcelain waterline tile, travertine coping and decking, cartridge and DE filtration, sheer descents and bubblers, and chemical automation that keeps the water balanced without you thinking about it.
North Texas is genuinely hard on a pool, and we build for the conditions instead of pretending they do not exist. Blackland Prairie clay moves with the seasons, so our shells get a full steel cage and a thickened bond beam.
Our fill water is hard enough to scale a salt cell in a season, so we spec finishes and equipment that tolerate it and we clean cells on a schedule. And every few winters a hard freeze comes through and finds every pool in the Metroplex without freeze protection, so we install controllers that start circulation on their own.
Grand Prairie Pool Pros is licensed, insured and bonded, a member of the Pool & Hot Tub Alliance, and every construction, remodel and resurfacing project carries a written workmanship warranty.
What Grand Prairie Customers Say
Our plaster was so rough the kids were getting scraped feet. They chipped it back to the gunite, redid the waterline tile in glass mosaic, and put in a pebble finish. Then they actually came back and walked us through the 28-day brushing instead of just handing us a sheet of paper.
Got three quotes for a remodel and these were the only ones who explained why the tile kept popping off. Turned out to be the expansion joint, not the tile. They fixed the joint first. Two years later nothing has moved.
Pump died the first week of July, which is apparently the law. They found a variable-speed replacement, had it in the next morning, and my electric bill went down enough that I noticed. No upsell on anything else.
They filled in our deep end to turn a diving pool into a sport pool, added a tanning ledge and redid the deck in travertine. In August you can walk on it barefoot, which was the whole point. Timeline slipped a week for rain and they told us before we had to ask.
Half an inch a day disappearing and two other companies wanted to break up the deck to look for it. These guys pressure tested each line, found the skimmer connection, and repaired it from the equipment side. Deck never got touched.
Why Grand Prairie Chooses Grand Prairie Pool Pros
- ✓Over 15 years remodeling, resurfacing and building pools across Grand Prairie and the DFW Metroplex
- ✓Specialists in bringing 1980s and 1990s pools up to date: new interiors, tile, coping, decking and equipment
- ✓Residential and commercial, from backyard gunite pools to hotel, apartment and HOA pools built to Texas code
- ✓Shells engineered for Blackland Prairie clay, and equipment specified for North Texas hard water and hard freezes
- ✓Free in-home 3D design so you see the finished backyard before anyone breaks ground
- ✓Insured and bonded, Pool & Hot Tub Alliance members, written workmanship warranty on every project
- ✓Our own crews on every job, no subcontracted strangers in your backyard
- ✓Se habla español
About Grand Prairie Pool Pros in Grand Prairie, TX
Grand Prairie Pool Pros has spent more than 15 years working on swimming pools between Arlington and Cedar Hill, and the majority of what we do now is fixing, refinishing and reimagining pools that somebody else built 30 or 40 years ago. That is not a complaint.
A well-built gunite shell will outlive its plaster three times over, and there is a real satisfaction in taking a tired kidney-shaped pool with gray plaster and a diving board nobody uses and handing back something the family actually wants to be in.
We run our own crews. The person who measures your yard is the person who answers the phone in week three, and the gunite, tile, plaster and deck work is done by people we employ rather than whoever bid lowest that month. That is slower to scale and it is the reason our schedule fills up in March.
We are licensed, insured and bonded, we carry general liability and workers' compensation, we are members of the Pool & Hot Tub Alliance, and every construction, remodel and resurfacing project gets a written workmanship warranty in plain English.
The other half of the job is being honest about North Texas. Blackland Prairie clay swells and shrinks and will find any weakness in a shell or a deck. Our fill water is hard enough that a neglected salt cell scales up in a season and a heater's heat exchanger follows it.
And roughly every winter something arrives from the north that reminds everyone why freeze protection exists. We will tell you when a repair is the right call instead of a remodel, when white plaster is genuinely good enough, and when the honest answer is that the pool should come out altogether. Se habla español, and the estimate is always free.
How It Works
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1. Free design and written quote
We come out, measure the yard, check the soil and the access, and design the pool or the remodel in 3D so you see it before anybody digs. The quote is itemized line by line. If something is likely to change, we tell you what and why up front rather than calling it an unforeseen condition later.
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2. Permits, engineering and excavation
We pull the City of Grand Prairie permits and schedule the inspections. Our own crew does the dig, the steel and the plumbing, so the person you met at the estimate is still the person running your job. You get a written schedule and a heads-up when weather moves it.
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3. Gunite, tile, finish and deck
Shell goes in at 4,000 PSI and cures under a hose for a week. Then waterline tile, coping, the interior finish, and the decking. Equipment is sized to the pool rather than to whatever was in the truck, which is how you end up with a pump that costs less to run.
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4. Fill, startup and handover
We fill it, run the 28-day startup brushing and chemistry on a new or resurfaced interior, and walk you through every valve and button until you actually understand your own equipment pad. Weekly service is available if you would rather not think about it at all.
Commercial Pool Construction, Remodeling & Service in Grand Prairie
We build, remodel and maintain commercial pools for hotels, apartment and condo communities, HOAs, and community centers across Grand Prairie and the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.
Every property is run to Texas Administrative Code Chapter 265: VGB-compliant anti-entrapment main drain covers, an ADA means of entry, turnover rates matched to the bather load, and an automated chemical controller so free chlorine and pH are documented rather than guessed.
Property managers get scheduled service with written reports, one phone number, and remodels scheduled around occupancy so the pool is closed in February instead of over Memorial Day weekend.
- ✓Hotels and hospitality properties
- ✓Apartment and condo communities
- ✓HOAs, community centers and municipal pools
- ✓Texas Administrative Code Chapter 265 compliance
- ✓VGB-compliant main drain covers and ADA pool lifts
- ✓Automated chemical controllers with documented daily logs
- ✓Scheduled maintenance and repair contracts
- ✓Off-season remodels planned around your occupancy
Service Areas
Grand Prairie Pool Pros serves Grand Prairie, TX and surrounding communities including:
Recent Projects Across the DFW Metroplex
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does pool resurfacing cost in Grand Prairie?
For a typical 15,000 to 20,000 gallon residential pool in the Metroplex, white plaster resurfacing generally starts in the mid four figures, a polished quartz finish runs higher, and a pebble finish such as PebbleTec is the most expensive of the three.
Replacing waterline tile and coping at the same time adds to it but costs far less than doing it as a separate job later, because you only pay to drain the pool once.
We give you a firm itemized number after we have seen the surface, since how much failed material has to be chipped out is the single biggest variable.
How much does a new pool cost in Grand Prairie, TX?
A custom gunite pool in the DFW Metroplex is a six-week to twelve-week project and prices track size, depth, finish, decking and features far more than anything else.
A modest fiberglass shell with a small deck sits at the bottom of the range, a mid-size gunite pool with a tanning ledge and travertine decking sits in the middle, and once you add a spa, a raised wall with sheer descents, automation and an outdoor kitchen you are into a different bracket entirely.
The free in-home 3D design comes with an itemized quote so you can see exactly what each feature costs and drop the ones you do not want.
How long does a pool remodel or resurfacing job take?
Resurfacing alone is usually one to two weeks: drain, chip out, patch, bond coat, plaster, refill, then start the 28-day brushing and chemistry schedule while you use the pool normally. A remodel with new tile, coping and decking runs three to four weeks.
A structural remodel that adds a spa, a tanning ledge or a raised wall runs four to six weeks because there is new steel, new gunite and a fresh cure involved. Rain moves all of those, and we would rather tell you that now than on week three.
How often does a pool need to be resurfaced in North Texas?
Standard white plaster gets 10 to 15 years here, and our hard water pushes it toward the low end of that. Polished quartz gets 12 to 18. A pebble finish gets 15 to 20 and hides calcium etching much better along the way.
The tell is texture: when the floor goes rough enough to scrape a foot, the cream coat is gone and the plaster underneath is exposed. Staining that will not brush out, spidering, and plaster pop-offs around the returns are the other signals.
Do you service and repair pools you did not build?
Yes, and most of our work is exactly that. Grand Prairie has thousands of pools built in the 1980s and 1990s that need a new interior, new tile, a variable-speed pump or a leak found. We take over weekly service, repairs, resurfacing and full remodels on any pool in the area regardless of who built it, and we will happily tell you what the previous contractor did well.
Do you build and maintain commercial pools?
We do. Hotels, apartment and condo communities, HOAs and community centers across Grand Prairie and the Metroplex use us for new construction, remodels, resurfacing and scheduled maintenance contracts. Everything is run to Texas Administrative Code Chapter 265, including VGB-compliant main drain covers, ADA means of entry, correct turnover rates and automated chemical controllers with documented daily logs, so the amenity stays open and passes inspection.