Every Pool Service We Offer in Reno, NV
One team for every pool job in Reno — from gunite & shotcrete pool construction to commercial pool construction & service.
Reno Pool Builders handles residential and commercial pool projects across Reno and the Truckee Meadows. From gunite & shotcrete pool construction to commercial pool construction & service, every service below is handled by our own team and backed by our workmanship guarantee.
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Our Pool Services in Reno, NV
Gunite & Shotcrete Pool Construction
Gunite and shotcrete pool construction is still the right way to build a pool that survives a Northern Nevada winter. We tie a steel rebar cage, pneumatically place the shell, and then let it cure properly, because a shell that cures correctly is a shell that does not spider-crack the first time the ground freezes and heaves at 4,500 feet.
Fiberglass Pool Installation
Fiberglass pool installation sets a finished, factory-molded shell into your yard and has it swimming in two to three weeks instead of two to three months. In a climate with a building season this short, that speed is most of the argument on its own.
Pool Remodeling & Renovation
Pool remodeling keeps the shell, which is the expensive part, and replaces everything you actually look at and touch. Plenty of Reno backyards have a structurally sound pool from 1978 wearing a thoroughly 1978 finish, and that gap is exactly what a remodel exists to close.
Pool Resurfacing & Replastering
Pool resurfacing replaces the interior finish once the plaster wears out, which every plaster surface eventually does, because it is a wear layer rather than a permanent part of the pool. Somewhere between twelve and twenty years it goes chalky, then rough underfoot, then it starts etching into little craters that hold dirt no brush will clear.
Pebble & Quartz Pool Finishes
Pebble and quartz pool finishes are the best-value decision available during a resurfacing, because the chip-out labor is identical and only the material cost changes. Standard white plaster is the budget interior and it behaves like one, going chalky in a decade.
Waterline Tile & Coping
Waterline tile and coping are the trim on the whole project, and they are the first two things a buyer, a guest, or a home inspector actually notices. They are also where hard water does its most visible damage.
Pool Decking & Hardscape
Pool decking is where you actually spend the day, and in Reno it takes more abuse than the pool does. Intense high-altitude UV, hundred-degree July afternoons, and a hundred-plus freeze-thaw cycles every winter will find any shortcut in the base prep.
Spa & Hot Tub Installation
Spa and hot tub installation is the single upgrade that turns a Reno pool from a four-month amenity into a twelve-month one. Nothing beats 104-degree water outdoors at 25 degrees with snow on the Carson Range.
Water Features & Waterfalls
Pool water features and waterfalls are what make a backyard feel like somewhere other than your backyard, and they do practical work too: moving water covers freeway noise, which is worth real money on a lot backing onto I-80 or the Pyramid Highway. We build natural rock waterfalls and grottos out of Sierra stone, sheer descents that drop a clean sheet of water off a raised wall, scuppers and spillways set into stacked-stone bond beams, bubblers on a tanning ledge, deck jets, laminar jets with LED cores, and fire-and-water bowls for the people who want the whole show.
LED Pool Lighting
LED pool lighting is one of the few upgrades that pays for itself and looks dramatically better at the same time. LEDs draw a fraction of the power, last years longer, and give you color, which changes a backyard at night from a dark hole to the best room in the house.
Pool Automation & Controls
Automation is the difference between owning a pool and managing one. A modern controller runs your variable-speed pump on a schedule, fires the heater, switches valve actuators between pool and spa, sequences the lights, runs the waterfall, and lets you do all of it from your phone from a hotel room in Vegas.
Pool Heaters & Heat Pumps
Pool heaters decide whether your Reno swim season runs ten weeks or six months, which makes them the least optional accessory in the high desert. Unheated, a Truckee Meadows pool is genuinely pleasant from roughly late June to early September, and the cold clear nights the high desert is famous for pull heat straight back out of the water after dark.
Variable-Speed Pumps & Filtration
Variable-speed pumps and filtration are where most of the running cost of a Reno pool actually lives, because the pump is the single largest energy consumer on most properties that have one. A variable-speed pump uses a permanent magnet motor and, because power draw falls dramatically as speed drops, running longer at low RPM filters better and costs far less than running short at full speed.
Saltwater Chlorination Systems
Saltwater chlorination does not give you a chlorine-free pool, and any company implying otherwise is either confused or selling. It makes chlorine on site by passing a low salt-content water stream over a coated titanium cell, which means no more hauling jugs, more stable chlorine levels, and water that genuinely feels softer on skin and eyes.
Pool Leak Detection & Repair
Pool leak detection in the high desert starts with proving there is actually a leak, because Reno evaporation is severe enough to fake one convincingly. A bucket test settles it in a day: if the pool is dropping meaningfully faster than a bucket of water sitting on the step, you have a leak, and if it is not, you have July.
Weekly Pool Cleaning & Service
Weekly pool cleaning and service in the high desert is not the same job it is in a mild coastal climate. Reno pools deal with hard fill water, heavy evaporation that concentrates calcium and salts, blowing dust and pine pollen, and intense UV at altitude that burns through stabilizer and chlorine faster than most owners expect.
Pool Winterization & Freeze Protection
Pool winterization is the service that separates a Reno pool company from a Phoenix one, and the one most out-of-town builders forget to plan for. The Truckee Meadows sees well over a hundred sub-freezing nights in a normal winter, and water expanding inside PVC does not negotiate.
Pool Safety Covers & Fencing
Pool safety covers and fencing do four jobs at once in Northern Nevada: keeping children and pets out of the water, keeping snow and grit and pine needles out of the pool, cutting evaporation in a climate that evaporates aggressively, and holding heat overnight when the temperature drops thirty degrees after sunset. An automatic safety cover does all four with a key switch, which is why we install more of them here than we would in a mild climate.
Pool Demolition & Removal
Pool demolition and removal is a legitimate answer far more often than pool companies like to admit. If the shell is structurally failing, if the yard is worth more as usable ground, if the property is a rental where the liability is not worth the amenity, or if you have simply inherited somebody else's neglected 1970s diving pool, removing it is a legitimate and sometimes obvious answer.
Commercial Pool Construction & Service
Commercial pool work in Northern Nevada is a different discipline from residential, and the difference is the health inspector. A casino-resort pool, an apartment amenity, an HOA pool, or a health club spa has to satisfy turnover-rate requirements, VGB-compliant anti-entrapment drain covers, an accurate flow meter, automated chemical controllers with recording, an ADA-compliant means of entry, and a barrier and signage package that meets Washoe County Health District standards.
What each of our services covers in Reno
Open any service to see exactly what is included before you call.
Gunite & Shotcrete Pool Construction
Gunite and shotcrete pool construction is still the right way to build a pool that survives a Northern Nevada winter. We tie a steel rebar cage, pneumatically place the shell, and then let it cure properly, because a shell that cures correctly is a shell that does not spider-crack the first time the ground freezes and heaves at 4,500 feet.
Freeform, geometric, vanishing edge, tanning ledge with bubblers, raised spa with a spillover — the shape is your call, the structure is ours.
- gunite pool construction
- shotcrete pool shell
- custom inground pool design
- steel rebar cage and bond beam
- freeform and geometric pool shapes
- tanning ledge and Baja shelf
- spa spillover pools
- lap pools and plunge pools
- vanishing edge pools
- pool excavation and grading
- 3D pool design
- engineered pool shells for freeze climates
Fiberglass Pool Installation
Fiberglass pool installation sets a finished, factory-molded shell into your yard and has it swimming in two to three weeks instead of two to three months. In a climate with a building season this short, that speed is most of the argument on its own. The gel coat surface is non-porous, which means less algae grip, less brushing, and noticeably lower chemical use over a season — a real advantage in high-desert water that already wants to scale.
- fiberglass pool installation
- one-piece fiberglass pool shell
- fiberglass pool cost
- small yard fiberglass pools
- fiberglass plunge pools
- fiberglass pool with tanning ledge
- gel coat repair and refinishing
- fiberglass pool delivery and crane set
- backfill and bedding
- fiberglass vs gunite
- fiberglass spa combo
- fiberglass pool resurfacing
Pool Remodeling & Renovation
Pool remodeling keeps the shell, which is the expensive part, and replaces everything you actually look at and touch. Plenty of Reno backyards have a structurally sound pool from 1978 wearing a thoroughly 1978 finish, and that gap is exactly what a remodel exists to close. That usually means new plaster or pebble interior, new waterline tile, new coping, a resurfaced or replaced deck, and an equipment pad dragged out of the single-speed era into variable-speed pumps and automation.
- pool renovation
- pool remodel cost
- pool makeover
- raised bond beam and spa addition
- tanning ledge retrofit
- waterline tile replacement
- coping replacement
- deck resurfacing and expansion
- pool modernization
- equipment pad upgrade
- converting a diving pool
- 1970s pool renovation
Pool Resurfacing & Replastering
Pool resurfacing replaces the interior finish once the plaster wears out, which every plaster surface eventually does, because it is a wear layer rather than a permanent part of the pool. Somewhere between twelve and twenty years it goes chalky, then rough underfoot, then it starts etching into little craters that hold dirt no brush will clear.
In the Truckee Meadows that clock runs faster, because hard water plus heavy evaporation plus aggressive winter chemistry is a rough combination for a cement-based finish.
- pool resurfacing
- pool replastering
- white plaster resurfacing
- pool interior finish replacement
- plaster chip-out and prep
- bond coat and scratch coat
- acid start-up vs bicarb start-up
- spot etching and mottling repair
- rough plaster repair
- pool surface delamination
- resurfacing cost
- spa resurfacing
Pebble & Quartz Pool Finishes
Pebble and quartz pool finishes are the best-value decision available during a resurfacing, because the chip-out labor is identical and only the material cost changes. Standard white plaster is the budget interior and it behaves like one, going chalky in a decade. Polished quartz blends hard quartz aggregate into the mix for a denser, more stain-resistant surface that holds its color considerably longer.
- PebbleTec pool finish
- pebble aggregate interior
- polished pebble finish
- quartz pool plaster
- colored quartz aggregate
- mini pebble finish
- glass bead pool finish
- pebble finish cost
- pebble vs plaster durability
- pool interior color selection
- exposed aggregate pool surface
- stain-resistant pool finishes
Waterline Tile & Coping
Waterline tile and coping are the trim on the whole project, and they are the first two things a buyer, a guest, or a home inspector actually notices. They are also where hard water does its most visible damage. Truckee Meadows water carries enough calcium that a neglected waterline builds a white crust in a couple of seasons, and once scale has etched into the glaze, cleaning stops working and replacement is the honest answer.
- waterline tile replacement
- glass pool tile
- porcelain and ceramic pool tile
- mosaic tile borders
- travertine coping
- cantilever concrete coping
- bullnose brick coping
- pool tile calcium removal
- bead blasting pool tile
- coping repair and re-setting
- spa tile and spillway tile
- tile and coping cost
Pool Decking & Hardscape
Pool decking is where you actually spend the day, and in Reno it takes more abuse than the pool does. Intense high-altitude UV, hundred-degree July afternoons, and a hundred-plus freeze-thaw cycles every winter will find any shortcut in the base prep. We build decks on properly compacted base with real drainage, correct expansion joints, and control joints placed where the concrete wants to crack instead of where it will be ugly.
- pool deck installation
- travertine pool deck
- paver pool deck
- stamped concrete pool deck
- cool deck coating
- broom finish concrete
- deck resurfacing and overlays
- expansion joint repair
- pool deck drainage
- retaining walls and seat walls
- outdoor kitchens and fire pits
- deck crack repair
Spa & Hot Tub Installation
Spa and hot tub installation is the single upgrade that turns a Reno pool from a four-month amenity into a twelve-month one. Nothing beats 104-degree water outdoors at 25 degrees with snow on the Carson Range. We build integrated gunite spas that spill into the pool, raised spas with stone-faced bond beams and sheer descents, and standalone spas set on a proper pad with the electrical and bonding done correctly rather than run off an extension cord.
- gunite spa installation
- attached spa with spillover
- raised spa construction
- standalone hot tub installation
- spa jets and blowers
- spa heater installation
- swim spa installation
- spa electrical and bonding
- spa retrofit on existing pool
- spa resurfacing
- cold plunge installation
- spa cost
Water Features & Waterfalls
Pool water features and waterfalls are what make a backyard feel like somewhere other than your backyard, and they do practical work too: moving water covers freeway noise, which is worth real money on a lot backing onto I-80 or the Pyramid Highway.
We build natural rock waterfalls and grottos out of Sierra stone, sheer descents that drop a clean sheet of water off a raised wall, scuppers and spillways set into stacked-stone bond beams, bubblers on a tanning ledge, deck jets, laminar jets with LED cores, and fire-and-water bowls for the people who want the whole show.
The engineering behind a good feature is pump sizing and plumbing, not rock stacking.
- pool waterfall construction
- rock waterfall and grotto
- sheer descent waterfall
- scupper and spillway water features
- bubblers and deck jets
- laminar jets
- rain curtain water feature
- spa spillover
- vanishing edge water effect
- water feature pump sizing
- waterfall repair and re-plumbing
- fire and water bowls
LED Pool Lighting
LED pool lighting is one of the few upgrades that pays for itself and looks dramatically better at the same time. LEDs draw a fraction of the power, last years longer, and give you color, which changes a backyard at night from a dark hole to the best room in the house.
We replace lights in existing wet niches, install nicheless LEDs on remodels where cutting a full niche is not practical, and add step, bench, and spa lighting so people can actually see where they are putting their feet.
- LED pool light installation
- color-changing pool lights
- pool light replacement
- fiber optic to LED conversion
- nicheless LED lights
- spa and step lighting
- underwater light niche repair
- landscape and deck lighting
- GFCI and pool light bonding
- pool light leak repair
- waterfall and feature lighting
- pool light cost
Pool Automation & Controls
Automation is the difference between owning a pool and managing one. A modern controller runs your variable-speed pump on a schedule, fires the heater, switches valve actuators between pool and spa, sequences the lights, runs the waterfall, and lets you do all of it from your phone from a hotel room in Vegas.
We install and configure Pentair, Hayward, and Jandy systems, retrofit controls onto older equipment pads, and set up chemical automation with ORP and pH controllers that dose acid and chlorine based on what the water actually reads rather than what somebody guessed on Tuesday.
- pool automation installation
- Pentair and Hayward control systems
- smartphone pool control
- automated chemical controllers
- ORP and pH controllers
- variable-speed pump scheduling
- automated valve actuators
- spa remote control
- freeze protection settings
- automation retrofit on old equipment
- pool app setup
- automation troubleshooting
Pool Heaters & Heat Pumps
Pool heaters decide whether your Reno swim season runs ten weeks or six months, which makes them the least optional accessory in the high desert.
Unheated, a Truckee Meadows pool is genuinely pleasant from roughly late June to early September, and the cold clear nights the high desert is famous for pull heat straight back out of the water after dark.
We size and install natural gas heaters, propane heaters for properties out past the gas main, and heat pumps, and we are honest about which one fits your situation.
- pool heater installation
- natural gas pool heater
- propane pool heater
- pool heat pump installation
- spa heater replacement
- heater sizing BTU calculation
- solar pool heating
- pool heater repair
- heat exchanger and thermal regulator repair
- heater venting and gas line sizing
- heater efficiency upgrade
- pool heater cost
Variable-Speed Pumps & Filtration
Variable-speed pumps and filtration are where most of the running cost of a Reno pool actually lives, because the pump is the single largest energy consumer on most properties that have one. A variable-speed pump uses a permanent magnet motor and, because power draw falls dramatically as speed drops, running longer at low RPM filters better and costs far less than running short at full speed. It is also enormously quieter, which your neighbors will notice before you do.
- variable-speed pool pump installation
- single-speed pump replacement
- cartridge filter installation
- DE filter installation and repair
- sand filter media replacement
- pool pump repair
- pump motor and seal replacement
- filter cleaning and element replacement
- plumbing and manifold upgrades
- turnover rate and flow calculation
- energy-efficient pool equipment
- pump noise reduction
Saltwater Chlorination Systems
Saltwater chlorination does not give you a chlorine-free pool, and any company implying otherwise is either confused or selling. It makes chlorine on site by passing a low salt-content water stream over a coated titanium cell, which means no more hauling jugs, more stable chlorine levels, and water that genuinely feels softer on skin and eyes. That last part is why most of our conversions happen: somebody in the house reacts badly to traditionally dosed chlorine.
- saltwater pool conversion
- salt chlorine generator installation
- salt cell replacement
- salt system repair
- chlorine to salt conversion cost
- salt cell scaling and acid cleaning
- saltwater pool maintenance
- salt level and stabilizer balance
- corrosion protection for salt pools
- sacrificial zinc anode
- salt pool for sensitive skin
- salt system troubleshooting
Pool Leak Detection & Repair
Pool leak detection in the high desert starts with proving there is actually a leak, because Reno evaporation is severe enough to fake one convincingly. A bucket test settles it in a day: if the pool is dropping meaningfully faster than a bucket of water sitting on the step, you have a leak, and if it is not, you have July. Once we know it is a leak, we find it rather than guess.
- pool leak detection
- electronic leak detection
- pressure testing pool plumbing
- dye testing pool shell
- skimmer leak repair
- main drain leak repair
- return line and plumbing repair
- underground pipe repair
- pool light niche leak
- structural crack repair
- spa leak detection
- freeze damage repair
Weekly Pool Cleaning & Service
Weekly pool cleaning and service in the high desert is not the same job it is in a mild coastal climate. Reno pools deal with hard fill water, heavy evaporation that concentrates calcium and salts, blowing dust and pine pollen, and intense UV at altitude that burns through stabilizer and chlorine faster than most owners expect.
Our weekly visit covers brushing walls and steps, netting and vacuuming, emptying skimmer and pump baskets, checking the filter pressure, inspecting the equipment pad, and balancing chemistry against actual test results — free chlorine, pH, alkalinity, calcium hardness, cyanuric acid, and saturation index, not just a dip strip and a shrug.
- weekly pool service
- pool cleaning service
- chemical balancing service
- filter cleaning service
- green pool cleanup and recovery
- algae treatment
- pool vacuuming and brushing
- skimmer and pump basket service
- salt cell inspection
- phosphate and stabilizer management
- one-time pool cleaning
- vacation pool service
Pool Winterization & Freeze Protection
Pool winterization is the service that separates a Reno pool company from a Phoenix one, and the one most out-of-town builders forget to plan for. The Truckee Meadows sees well over a hundred sub-freezing nights in a normal winter, and water expanding inside PVC does not negotiate.
A proper winterization means dropping the level below the tile and skimmer mouths, blowing every line clear with compressed air, plugging returns, setting freeze plugs in the skimmers, draining the pump, filter, and heater completely, and either shutting the system down or configuring freeze protection to run circulation automatically when the ambient sensor drops.
- pool winterization service
- pool closing service
- blowing out pool lines
- freeze plugs and skimmer guards
- equipment freeze protection
- winter pool cover installation
- automatic safety cover installation
- spring pool opening service
- antifreeze for pool plumbing
- heater and pump winter shutdown
- freeze damage prevention
- winter pool maintenance
Pool Safety Covers & Fencing
Pool safety covers and fencing do four jobs at once in Northern Nevada: keeping children and pets out of the water, keeping snow and grit and pine needles out of the pool, cutting evaporation in a climate that evaporates aggressively, and holding heat overnight when the temperature drops thirty degrees after sunset.
An automatic safety cover does all four with a key switch, which is why we install more of them here than we would in a mild climate.
We also fit anchored mesh safety covers for a full winter close, solid covers for pools that will not be touched until spring, and solar covers with reels for owners chasing a longer season without a bigger gas bill.
- automatic pool safety cover
- mesh safety cover installation
- solid winter cover
- removable mesh pool fence
- glass pool fencing
- wrought iron pool fence
- self-closing self-latching gates
- pool safety barrier code compliance
- pool alarms and door alarms
- solar cover and reel
- cover track and motor repair
- child safety barriers
Pool Demolition & Removal
Pool demolition and removal is a legitimate answer far more often than pool companies like to admit. If the shell is structurally failing, if the yard is worth more as usable ground, if the property is a rental where the liability is not worth the amenity, or if you have simply inherited somebody else's neglected 1970s diving pool, removing it is a legitimate and sometimes obvious answer. There are two ways to do it.
- swimming pool removal
- pool demolition cost
- partial pool fill-in
- full pool removal and excavation
- pool backfill and compaction
- engineered fill and soils report
- removing a diving pool
- spa demolition
- concrete and rebar disposal
- yard restoration after pool removal
- pool removal permits
- abandoned pool remediation
Commercial Pool Construction & Service
Commercial pool work in Northern Nevada is a different discipline from residential, and the difference is the health inspector.
A casino-resort pool, an apartment amenity, an HOA pool, or a health club spa has to satisfy turnover-rate requirements, VGB-compliant anti-entrapment drain covers, an accurate flow meter, automated chemical controllers with recording, an ADA-compliant means of entry, and a barrier and signage package that meets Washoe County Health District standards.
Get any of it wrong and your amenity gets a closure notice in the middle of your busiest month.
- commercial pool construction
- hotel and casino-resort pools
- apartment and condo community pools
- HOA pool maintenance contracts
- health club and gym pools
- commercial pool remodeling
- commercial pool code compliance
- VGB anti-entrapment drain covers
- turnover rate and flow meter requirements
- ADA pool lifts and accessible entry
- commercial spa and hot tub service
- pool room chemical controllers
What Reno property owners ask us
Which pool services does Reno Pool Builders handle?
Everything listed on this page, residential and commercial, across Reno and the Truckee Meadows. Work is done by our own crews rather than handed to whoever is cheapest that week, which is the only way the workmanship warranty means anything.
Can I combine more than one service in a single job?
Yes, and it is usually cheaper. Bundling pool work into one mobilization saves setup, disposal and travel, and it means one crew, one schedule and one written free estimate instead of three contractors blaming each other.
Do you give free estimates for every service?
Every one. We come out, measure, look at the real condition of the work area, and put an itemized free estimate in writing with materials and scope spelled out. No charge, no deposit, and no obligation to book.
What Reno Customers Say
They designed our pool in 3D so we knew exactly what we were getting before a shovel moved. The crew was on site every day, the tanning ledge is where my kids live now, and the winterization walkthrough in October was genuinely useful.
Got three quotes for a remodel. These were the only people who explained the difference between quartz and pebble instead of just handing me a price. New pebble interior and travertine coping, and the pool looks like it was built last year.
Our pump died the first week of July. They diagnosed it, replaced it with a variable-speed unit the same visit, and my power bill actually went down. No upsell, no drama. We are on their weekly service now.
Built the pool and the deck together. The travertine does not burn your feet in August, which was the whole point. They stuck to the timeline they gave me and told me straight when the boulder in the excavation was going to add a day.
They were the only contractor who talked to me about snow load and the short build window at lake elevation instead of pretending Incline is the same as Reno. Cover system has been flawless through two winters.
Leak we had been chasing for two summers. They pressure-tested every line, found a split return from a freeze years ago, and re-plumbed the run instead of patching it. First honest answer we got from anybody.
Service Areas
Reno Pool Builders serves Reno, NV and surrounding communities including: