Every Pool Service We Offer in Laredo, TX
One team for every pool job in Laredo — from gunite & shotcrete pool construction to pool demolition & removal.
Laredo Pool Builders handles residential and commercial pool projects across Laredo and Webb County and South Texas. From gunite & shotcrete pool construction to pool demolition & removal, every service below is handled by our own team and backed by our workmanship guarantee.
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Our Pool Services in Laredo, TX
Gunite & Shotcrete Pool Construction
Gunite pool construction gets you a pool shaped like your yard instead of one shaped like a factory mold, and in Laredo it is also the method that copes best with what sits under the grass. Most lots in Webb County are built on caliche, and how hard yours turns out to be will move the price of your pool more than any tile or coping you pick.
Fiberglass Pool Installation
Fiberglass pool installation is the fastest honest route to swimming: the shell is molded in a factory, arrives on a truck, drops into the hole with a crane, and a clean install runs two to three weeks from bare dirt to full water. In Laredo it comes with a second advantage most people never hear about, which is that a simpler excavation means less hammer time in the caliche and a smaller bill when the rock turns out to be bad.
Vinyl Liner Pools & Liner Replacement
Vinyl liner replacement takes two to four days once the liner is made, and in Laredo it comes around sooner than the national averages suggest, because sun is what actually kills a liner and we have an unreasonable amount of it. Vinyl pools are also rare in Webb County, which means owning one here is mostly a hunt for somebody who will still work on it, and we will.
Pool Remodeling & Renovation
Pool remodeling changes what a pool is, not just what color it is: adding a spa with a spillover, cutting a tanning ledge into the shallow end, or filling a deep end that only exists because 1982 believed in diving boards. Plenty of Laredo pools were built between the 1970s and the 1990s, and the shell is usually in far better condition than everything attached to it.
Pool Resurfacing & Replastering
Pool resurfacing comes due when the plaster stops feeling smooth and starts feeling like a driveway, usually announced by somebody climbing out of the shallow end with a scraped foot. In Laredo that arrives earlier than the brochures promise, because our fill water is hard and full of dissolved solids and our afternoons evaporate it off and leave the calcium behind.
Waterline Tile & Coping
Waterline tile takes the worst of a Laredo pool in a six-inch band: sunscreen, body oil, calcium and about as much UV as anywhere in the continental United States. It is also the first thing every guest looks at, which makes cleaning or replacing it the cheapest visible upgrade available to most pools.
Pool Decking & Shade Structures
Pool deck temperature matters more in Laredo than in any other city in Texas: plain gray broom-finished concrete will read well past 140 degrees on a July afternoon, which is why everybody crosses it like the floor is lava, because functionally it is. Travertine and light-colored pavers run 20 to 30 degrees cooler, and a spray-texture cool deck coating over a sound slab costs a fraction of a tear-out.
Spa & Hot Tub Installation
A spa in Laredo earns its money differently than one in Amarillo, and the honest version is that you may end up using yours cold more than hot. The same shell that sits at 102 degrees on a January evening becomes a cold plunge in July, and that is the feature nobody arrives asking for and nobody ever gives up.
Water Features & Waterfalls
Pool water features get bought for the way they look and kept for the way they sound, and a sheer descent running into the pool covers a surprising amount of the Interstate 35 traffic in the background. The catch in Laredo is evaporation, so the smart move is a feature on a timer rather than a feature running all day into dry air.
Pool Lighting & LED Retrofits
Pool light replacement matters more in Laredo than in most towns, because a large share of the swimming here happens after dark from May through September. The middle of a July day is not negotiable, so the pool you paid for is really an evening pool, and evening pools live or die on lighting.
Pool Automation & Controls
Pool automation puts the pump, valves, heater, lights and water features on a schedule you run from your phone, and in Laredo the part that actually pays for itself is chemical dosing. Heat, high UV and hard fill water move a pool's chemistry fast enough that hand-dosing turns into chasing numbers from May to October.
Pool Heaters & Heat Pumps
Pool heater installation comes with a warning in this market: we talk more people out of it than into it, because the Laredo swim season already runs most of the year without help and a fair number of homeowners here would get more use out of a chiller. Where a heater genuinely earns its keep is on a spa, and on a pool only if you plan to swim through December and January.
Variable-Speed Pumps & Filtration
A variable-speed pool pump is the best money you can spend on an existing Laredo pool, because an old single-speed motor is quietly competing with your air conditioner for the largest electricity draw in the house. It reaches the same daily turnover at 1,200 to 1,800 RPM instead of 3,450, and most pools here pay back the price difference in two to three seasons.
Saltwater Chlorination Systems
A saltwater pool is a chlorine pool, and getting that straight up front saves a lot of confusion later: the cell passes a low current through dissolved salt and makes chlorine on site, continuously, at a low steady level. What you are really buying is never hauling jugs of liquid chlorine home in the trunk of your car again, and water that does not smell like a public pool.
Pool Leak Detection & Repair
Pool leak detection in Laredo begins with a question worth answering before you pay anybody: is it a leak, or is it just July? Our mix of heat, low humidity and wind gives us some of the highest evaporation rates in Texas, and a pool losing a third of an inch a day in August may be behaving completely normally.
Weekly Pool Cleaning & Maintenance
Weekly pool cleaning in Laredo turns into a losing fight the moment you skip a week, because 90-degree water under a UV index that regularly pegs the top of the scale can burn through a pool's free chlorine in about a day. Our weekly visit covers the whole job: full chemistry tested and corrected, walls and tile line brushed, netting, vacuuming, both baskets emptied, filter pressure read, and an actual look at the equipment for anything about to fail.
Commercial Pool Construction & Service
Commercial pool service in Laredo comes down to two things: staying open and staying legal. Laredo runs on freight, freight brings hotels, and a hotel along Interstate 35 with a taped-off pool is losing bookings by the second night, which is a very different problem from a backyard that looks a bit cloudy.
Pool Safety Fencing & Covers
A removable mesh pool safety fence is the most effective thing you can put between a small child and your pool, and it pulls out in about twenty minutes when you want the yard open for a party. Drowning is the leading cause of accidental death for children between one and four, and what actually works is layers: a barrier, a latch a three-year-old cannot reach, an alarm, and a clear agreement about which adult is watching.
Pool Demolition & Removal
Pool removal is sometimes the honest recommendation, and we will do the job without spending twenty minutes trying to talk you into a remodel you did not ask about. A rental where the liability outweighs the rent, an inherited shell that has been green for three summers and is now mostly mosquitoes, an owner who would simply rather have level ground and a workshop: those are all good reasons, and none of them need defending.
What each of our services covers in Laredo
Open any service to see exactly what is included before you call.
Gunite & Shotcrete Pool Construction
Gunite pool construction gets you a pool shaped like your yard instead of one shaped like a factory mold, and in Laredo it is also the method that copes best with what sits under the grass.
Most lots in Webb County are built on caliche, and how hard yours turns out to be will move the price of your pool more than any tile or coping you pick. Caliche is compacted calcium carbonate, and it is genuinely unpredictable from one street to the next.
- gunite pool construction
- shotcrete pool shell
- new inground pool builder
- custom pool design and 3D layout
- freeform and geometric pool shapes
- tanning ledge and Baja shelf
- sport pools and lap pools
- pool and spa combination builds
- caliche and rock excavation
- City of Laredo pool permits and inspections
- shaded pool and palapa layouts
- pool construction timeline
Fiberglass Pool Installation
Fiberglass pool installation is the fastest honest route to swimming: the shell is molded in a factory, arrives on a truck, drops into the hole with a crane, and a clean install runs two to three weeks from bare dirt to full water.
In Laredo it comes with a second advantage most people never hear about, which is that a simpler excavation means less hammer time in the caliche and a smaller bill when the rock turns out to be bad. A gunite pool needs a wider dig, deeper plumbing trenches and long equipment runs.
- fiberglass pool installation
- one-piece fiberglass shells
- fast pool installation
- fiberglass pool with built-in spa
- gelcoat repair and refinishing
- crane set fiberglass pool
- fiberglass pool cost
- salt friendly fiberglass surface
- fiberglass coping and decking
- fiberglass compared with gunite
Vinyl Liner Pools & Liner Replacement
Vinyl liner replacement takes two to four days once the liner is made, and in Laredo it comes around sooner than the national averages suggest, because sun is what actually kills a liner and we have an unreasonable amount of it. Vinyl pools are also rare in Webb County, which means owning one here is mostly a hunt for somebody who will still work on it, and we will. The construction is simple enough to explain in one breath.
- vinyl liner pool installation
- pool liner replacement
- 20 mil and 27 mil vinyl liners
- steel and polymer wall panels
- vermiculite pool floor
- liner patch, seam and gasket repair
- liner patterns and printed borders
- custom liners for odd shapes
- vinyl liner pool cost
- liner track and coping replacement
Pool Remodeling & Renovation
Pool remodeling changes what a pool is, not just what color it is: adding a spa with a spillover, cutting a tanning ledge into the shallow end, or filling a deep end that only exists because 1982 believed in diving boards.
Plenty of Laredo pools were built between the 1970s and the 1990s, and the shell is usually in far better condition than everything attached to it. Every remodel starts with an honest look at that shell, because it decides the budget.
- swimming pool remodeling
- pool renovation and modernization
- adding a spa to an existing pool
- tanning ledge and sun shelf addition
- pool reshaping and expansion
- diving pool to sport pool conversion
- raised bond beam and feature wall
- shade structures, palapas and pergolas
- full backyard redesign
- equipment pad rebuild and relocation
Pool Resurfacing & Replastering
Pool resurfacing comes due when the plaster stops feeling smooth and starts feeling like a driveway, usually announced by somebody climbing out of the shallow end with a scraped foot. In Laredo that arrives earlier than the brochures promise, because our fill water is hard and full of dissolved solids and our afternoons evaporate it off and leave the calcium behind. The first sign is texture, not color.
- pool resurfacing
- pool replastering contractor
- PebbleTec and pebble interiors
- polished quartz finishes
- white plaster and marcite
- glass bead pool interiors
- chip out, patch and bond coat
- calcium scale, etching and stain removal
- interior finish color choice
- pool resurfacing cost
- plaster startup and 28-day brushing
Waterline Tile & Coping
Waterline tile takes the worst of a Laredo pool in a six-inch band: sunscreen, body oil, calcium and about as much UV as anywhere in the continental United States. It is also the first thing every guest looks at, which makes cleaning or replacing it the cheapest visible upgrade available to most pools. Calcium is the headline problem here.
- waterline tile replacement
- glass mosaic pool tile
- porcelain and ceramic waterline tile
- travertine coping
- cantilevered concrete coping
- precast bullnose coping
- calcium scale removal and bead blasting
- loose and popping tile repair
- step markers and depth markers
- expansion joint and mastic replacement
Pool Decking & Shade Structures
Pool deck temperature matters more in Laredo than in any other city in Texas: plain gray broom-finished concrete will read well past 140 degrees on a July afternoon, which is why everybody crosses it like the floor is lava, because functionally it is. Travertine and light-colored pavers run 20 to 30 degrees cooler, and a spray-texture cool deck coating over a sound slab costs a fraction of a tear-out. Start with what you have.
- pool deck installation and resurfacing
- cool deck spray texture
- travertine pool decks
- paver pool decking
- stamped and stained concrete
- pool deck coatings and sealers
- palapas, pergolas and shade sails
- outdoor kitchens and fire pits
- seat walls and retaining walls
- deck drainage and grading
- cracked and settled deck repair
Spa & Hot Tub Installation
A spa in Laredo earns its money differently than one in Amarillo, and the honest version is that you may end up using yours cold more than hot. The same shell that sits at 102 degrees on a January evening becomes a cold plunge in July, and that is the feature nobody arrives asking for and nobody ever gives up. Our cool season is genuinely short.
- attached gunite spa construction
- spa spillover and raised spa wall
- adding a spa to an existing pool
- standalone hot tub installation
- therapy jets, blowers and bench layout
- dedicated spa heater and pump
- spa resurfacing and retiling
- swim spa installation
- spa automation and remote heating
- cold plunge and chilled spa options
Water Features & Waterfalls
Pool water features get bought for the way they look and kept for the way they sound, and a sheer descent running into the pool covers a surprising amount of the Interstate 35 traffic in the background. The catch in Laredo is evaporation, so the smart move is a feature on a timer rather than a feature running all day into dry air. The options run from restrained to theatrical.
- pool waterfall construction
- sheer descent and rain curtain
- natural stone and boulder waterfalls
- scuppers and spillways
- bubblers and deck jets on tanning ledges
- grottos and slides
- laminar jets with LED
- vanishing edge pools
- feature pump sizing and plumbing
- waterfall repair and resealing
- evaporation and water feature run time
Pool Lighting & LED Retrofits
Pool light replacement matters more in Laredo than in most towns, because a large share of the swimming here happens after dark from May through September. The middle of a July day is not negotiable, so the pool you paid for is really an evening pool, and evening pools live or die on lighting.
If yours is still a 500-watt incandescent, you own a fixture that hums quietly, eats bulbs, costs real money to run, and makes perfectly clear water look faintly yellow.
- pool light replacement
- LED pool light retrofit
- color changing LED pool and spa lights
- nicheless LED lighting
- fiber optic to LED conversion
- 12-volt low voltage lighting
- deck, palapa and landscape lighting
- GFCI and equipotential bonding
- wet niche and conduit repair
- waterlogged fixture replacement
Pool Automation & Controls
Pool automation puts the pump, valves, heater, lights and water features on a schedule you run from your phone, and in Laredo the part that actually pays for itself is chemical dosing. Heat, high UV and hard fill water move a pool's chemistry fast enough that hand-dosing turns into chasing numbers from May to October. Start with the everyday version, because it is what people notice first.
- pool automation installation
- Pentair, Hayward and Jandy controllers
- pool control from your phone
- automated chemical dosing
- ORP and pH sensors with acid and chlorine feeders
- valve actuators
- scheduling pumps, lights and water features
- remote spa heat-up
- automation retrofit on older equipment pads
- freeze protection mode
Pool Heaters & Heat Pumps
Pool heater installation comes with a warning in this market: we talk more people out of it than into it, because the Laredo swim season already runs most of the year without help and a fair number of homeowners here would get more use out of a chiller.
Where a heater genuinely earns its keep is on a spa, and on a pool only if you plan to swim through December and January. For a spa, gas is the right answer and it is not close.
- pool heater installation
- natural gas and propane pool heaters
- electric pool heat pumps
- pool heater repair and diagnostics
- heater sizing by pool volume
- spa heater replacement
- pool chillers and cooling
- gas line sizing and heater venting
- heat pump versus gas running cost
- heat exchanger scale and corrosion
Variable-Speed Pumps & Filtration
A variable-speed pool pump is the best money you can spend on an existing Laredo pool, because an old single-speed motor is quietly competing with your air conditioner for the largest electricity draw in the house. It reaches the same daily turnover at 1,200 to 1,800 RPM instead of 3,450, and most pools here pay back the price difference in two to three seasons. The reason is physics rather than marketing.
- variable-speed pump installation
- pool pump repair and replacement
- cartridge filter systems
- DE filter grids and service
- sand filter media replacement
- filter cleaning and backwashing
- motor bearings, shaft seals and impellers
- equipment pad and plumbing rebuild
- energy efficient pool equipment
- noisy pump and loss of prime
- booster pumps for pressure cleaners
Saltwater Chlorination Systems
A saltwater pool is a chlorine pool, and getting that straight up front saves a lot of confusion later: the cell passes a low current through dissolved salt and makes chlorine on site, continuously, at a low steady level.
What you are really buying is never hauling jugs of liquid chlorine home in the trunk of your car again, and water that does not smell like a public pool. The water sits around 3,200 ppm of salt, which is roughly a tenth of seawater and about the salinity of a tear.
- salt chlorine generator installation
- salt cell replacement
- chlorine to saltwater conversion
- salt system repair and troubleshooting
- salt cell descaling and acid soaking
- salt level testing and dosing
- stainless and corrosion resistant hardware
- saltwater pool maintenance
- salt cell sizing and output
- saltwater versus chlorine cost
Pool Leak Detection & Repair
Pool leak detection in Laredo begins with a question worth answering before you pay anybody: is it a leak, or is it just July? Our mix of heat, low humidity and wind gives us some of the highest evaporation rates in Texas, and a pool losing a third of an inch a day in August may be behaving completely normally. So we start with a bucket test, not a quote.
- pool leak detection
- underground plumbing leak repair
- pressure testing suction and return lines
- skimmer and return line leaks
- structural crack and shell repair
- light niche and conduit leaks
- dye testing and hydrophone location
- spa and water feature leaks
- leak repair without breaking the deck
- high evaporation versus real leak
Weekly Pool Cleaning & Maintenance
Weekly pool cleaning in Laredo turns into a losing fight the moment you skip a week, because 90-degree water under a UV index that regularly pegs the top of the scale can burn through a pool's free chlorine in about a day.
Our weekly visit covers the whole job: full chemistry tested and corrected, walls and tile line brushed, netting, vacuuming, both baskets emptied, filter pressure read, and an actual look at the equipment for anything about to fail. Maintaining a pool is not complicated work.
- weekly pool cleaning service
- water testing and chemical balancing
- green pool cleanup and algae removal
- filter cleaning and backwashing
- skimmer and pump basket service
- brushing, netting, vacuuming and tile line
- salt cell inspection and cleaning
- high evaporation top-up management
- one-time pool cleanups
- rental and second-home pool service
- monthly maintenance plans
Commercial Pool Construction & Service
Commercial pool service in Laredo comes down to two things: staying open and staying legal. Laredo runs on freight, freight brings hotels, and a hotel along Interstate 35 with a taped-off pool is losing bookings by the second night, which is a very different problem from a backyard that looks a bit cloudy. The city has an unusual density of hotels and extended-stay properties for its size, plus a large stock of apartment communities.
- commercial pool construction
- hotel and motel pool service
- apartment community pools
- HOA pool maintenance contracts
- Texas commercial pool code compliance
- health department inspection readiness
- ADA pool lifts and accessible entry
- commercial resurfacing and remodels
- VGB-compliant main drain covers
- pump rooms and automated chemical controllers
- splash pads and municipal pools
Pool Safety Fencing & Covers
A removable mesh pool safety fence is the most effective thing you can put between a small child and your pool, and it pulls out in about twenty minutes when you want the yard open for a party.
Drowning is the leading cause of accidental death for children between one and four, and what actually works is layers: a barrier, a latch a three-year-old cannot reach, an alarm, and a clear agreement about which adult is watching. This is the least entertaining page on this site and the one we would most like you to finish.
- removable mesh pool safety fence
- mesh safety cover installation
- automatic pool covers
- Texas pool barrier requirements
- self-closing self-latching gates
- pool and door alarms
- safety cover replacement
- solar and evaporation covers
- child and pet pool safety layers
- cover strap, track and anchor repair
Pool Demolition & Removal
Pool removal is sometimes the honest recommendation, and we will do the job without spending twenty minutes trying to talk you into a remodel you did not ask about.
A rental where the liability outweighs the rent, an inherited shell that has been green for three summers and is now mostly mosquitoes, an owner who would simply rather have level ground and a workshop: those are all good reasons, and none of them need defending.
There are two methods, and the difference genuinely matters when you sell the house, so read this part twice.
- swimming pool removal
- pool demolition and fill in
- partial pool removal
- full excavation and haul off
- engineered fill and compaction testing
- demolition permits and inspections
- abandoned pool remediation
- yard restoration after removal
- pool removal cost
- grading and drainage after fill
What Laredo property owners ask us
Which pool services does Laredo Pool Builders handle?
Everything listed on this page, residential and commercial, across Laredo and Webb County and South Texas. 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 Laredo Customers Say
We thought we had a leak and were ready to pay for a full detection job. They told us to do a bucket test first and call back. It was evaporation. They talked themselves out of an invoice, so obviously they are the ones we called when we did eventually need work.
Built the pool with a palapa over the tanning ledge, which was their idea, not ours. It is the only part of the yard anyone sits in during the afternoon. Should have been obvious and nobody else suggested it.
Todo el proceso en español, desde el diseño hasta la entrega. Explicaron cada paso y el presupuesto no cambió al final. Muy recomendables.
Salt cell kept failing under the previous company. These guys said it had been sized exactly to the pool and was running flat out all summer. Fitted a bigger one, showed me the acid soak routine, and it has been fine for two years.
Resurfaced with pebble and they scheduled the drain-down for November so the shell was not baking. Small thing, but it told me they knew what they were doing here specifically.
Service Areas
Laredo Pool Builders serves Laredo, TX and surrounding communities including: