Every Pool Service We Offer in Albuquerque, NM

New pool construction in Albuquerque is a soils problem before it is a design problem, because somewhere under most lots in this metro sits caliche — a cemented calcium carbonate hardpan that ranges from a nuisance to something that stops a standard excavator cold.

What we build on top of it is gunite: a tied rebar cage, concrete shot pneumatically in one placement, and a seven-day water cure. In the valley you get sand, silt, and a high water table near the bosque.

• inground pool installation
• gunite pool construction
• shotcrete pool shells
• custom pool design
• 3D pool design
• geometric and freeform pools
• lap pools and plunge pools
• negative edge pools with mountain views
• tanning ledges and Baja shelves
• pool and spa combinations
• caliche excavation
• pool permits and engineering

New Pool Construction in Albuquerque, NM

Pool remodeling in Albuquerque usually means one specific pool: something built between 1975 and 1995 with a deep diving well nobody uses, a narrow shallow end, cracked cool-deck, one yellow light, and a screaming single-speed pump. Structurally most of those shells are fine — what is finished is everything attached to them, and that is exactly what a remodel replaces.

The most common package we do here is tile, coping, a pebble interior, a full equipment swap, and new decking, with the diving well shallowed to about five feet.

• pool renovation
• pool modernization
• 1980s diving pool conversion
• adding a spa to an existing pool
• tanning ledge addition
• pool deck replacement
• waterline tile and coping upgrade
• converting to saltwater
• equipment pad rebuild
• LED light upgrade
• pool shallowing and depth change

Pool Remodeling & Renovation in Albuquerque, NM

Pool resurfacing and replastering comes due faster in Albuquerque than the manufacturer's brochure suggests, thanks to a combination unusual to this market: extreme high-altitude UV, hard fill water heavy in calcium, and a daily temperature swing that cycles the surface.

White plaster that might give fifteen years on the coast frequently goes chalky, rough, and mottled here around year eight or ten. Once it is rough enough to skin a heel, it is also porous enough to hold algae in the pores, which is when people start buying chemicals to solve a surface problem.

• pool replastering
• pebble pool finish
• PebbleTec and pebble aggregate
• polished quartz pool finish
• white plaster resurfacing
• pool interior refinishing
• acid wash vs resurfacing
• calcium scale and plaster etching
• rough pool surface repair
• chip-out and bond coat
• plaster start-up and cure

Pool Resurfacing & Replastering in Albuquerque, NM

Waterline tile and coping replacement is the maintenance problem that is genuinely worse in Albuquerque than almost anywhere else. Fill water here is hard, evaporation concentrates it further, and the result is a chalky white calcium band along the tile line that thickens every single season. Pumice stones stop working.

• waterline tile replacement
• glass mosaic pool tile
• porcelain and ceramic pool tile
• flagstone coping
• travertine coping
• cantilevered concrete coping
• calcium scale removal from tile
• bead blasting pool tile
• raised bond beam tile
• spa spillover tile
• pool tile repair

Waterline Tile & Coping in Albuquerque, NM

Pool decks and hardscape get used nine months a year in Albuquerque even though the swim season is barely three, which is why we design decking as a room rather than a walkway. Two conditions govern material choice here: how painful an unshaded surface gets at 5,300 feet in July, and how it survives dozens of freeze-thaw cycles each winter.

Flagstone is the local favorite and deserves it — New Mexico sandstone and quartzite stay cooler than poured concrete, look right against adobe and stucco, and shrug off freeze-thaw when set properly.

• pool deck resurfacing
• flagstone pool deck
• travertine pool deck
• paver pool deck
• stamped concrete pool deck
• cool deck coating
• pool deck crack repair
• outdoor kitchens and kiva fireplaces
• ramadas and shade structures
• fire pits and seating walls
• deck drainage and grading

Pool Decks & Hardscape in Albuquerque, NM

Spa and hot tub installation is arguably the more valuable half of the project in a market with an eleven-week unheated swim season. A pool in Albuquerque is a summer amenity; a spa is a February amenity, and sitting in 102-degree water under a clear high-desert sky at 20 degrees is one of the genuinely great things about living here.

We build gunite spas as part of new construction and retrofit them into existing pools, most often as a raised spa with a spillover that sheets back into the pool and doubles as a water feature.

• gunite spa construction
• raised spa with spillover
• spa and pool combination
• swim spa installation
• portable hot tub pad and wiring
• spa jets and blowers
• spa heater installation
• spa freeze protection
• spa resurfacing
• hot tub electrical hookup
• spa automation and remote control

Spa & Hot Tub Installation in Albuquerque, NM

Pool water features — sheer descents, bubblers, laminar jets, scuppers, and boulder waterfalls — do something in the high desert they do not do elsewhere, because the sound of moving water in a dry landscape is disproportionately pleasant.

We build the whole range, from a single bubbler on a tanning ledge to a waterfall in local basalt and granite that looks like it came with the lot. Sheer descents are the clean architectural option, a stainless or acrylic weir in a raised wall dropping a flat ribbon of water, backlit with color-changing LED.

• sheer descent waterfalls
• boulder waterfall construction
• bubblers and deck jets
• laminar jets with LED
• scupper and spillway features
• grotto features
• raised wall water features
• pool fountain repair
• water feature pump sizing
• negative edge and perimeter overflow
• water feature winterization

Water Features & Fountains in Albuquerque, NM

Albuquerque Pool Pros installs and retrofits LED pool lights built for bright desert nights and cold clear air. High elevation sun is hard on lenses and gaskets. Daytime UV yellows cheap plastic faces while winter nights freeze wet niches that were never drained.

• LED pool light replacement
• color-changing pool lights
• fiber optic to LED conversion
• 12-volt pool lighting
• nicheless LED lights
• spa light installation
• landscape and deck lighting
• pool light not working
• GFCI and bonding for pool lights
• light niche and conduit repair
• dark sky friendly outdoor lighting

LED Pool Lighting in Albuquerque, NM

Pool automation is worth more in Albuquerque than in warm-climate markets, and the reason is freeze protection. A control system watches air temperature and starts the pump before anything in the plumbing can freeze, automatically, at three in the morning, without anybody having to remember. Every winter in this metro somebody loses a filter tank, a heater exchanger, or a pump housing to a cold snap that arrived a day earlier than forecast.

• pool automation installation
• smart pool controls
• app-based pool control
• automated valve actuators
• freeze protection automation
• chemical automation and ORP control
• automatic pH dosing
• pool control panel upgrade
• spa changeover automation
• wireless pool remote
• pool timer replacement

Pool Automation & Controls in Albuquerque, NM

Pool heater installation is the single most consequential decision an Albuquerque pool owner makes, because it decides whether you own a three-month pool or a six-month one. Unheated, our season runs mid-June to early September; with the right heater and a cover, most of our customers swim from late April into October. There are three technologies and they suit different situations.

• pool heater installation
• natural gas pool heater
• propane pool heater
• electric heat pump pool heater
• solar pool heating
• spa heater replacement
• pool heater repair
• heater sizing and BTU calculation
• pool heater not firing
• season extension heating

Pool Heaters & Heat Pumps in Albuquerque, NM

Variable-speed pumps and filtration are the largest electrical load most Albuquerque homes add without thinking about it, and federal efficiency rules have now effectively retired the single-speed pool pump.

Power draw scales roughly with the cube of pump speed, so a variable-speed unit at 1,200 RPM for twelve hours moves the same water as a single-speed at 3,450 RPM for four while drawing a fraction of the energy. It is also dramatically quieter, which matters when the pad sits against a neighbor's wall on a quarter-acre lot.

• variable-speed pool pump installation
• energy efficient pool pump
• pool pump replacement
• cartridge filter installation
• DE filter and grid replacement
• sand filter and media change
• pool filter cleaning
• turnover rate and flow calculation
• pool plumbing upgrade
• equipment pad rebuild
• pump motor repair
• freeze-safe equipment pad layout

Variable-Speed Pumps & Filtration in Albuquerque, NM

Saltwater chlorination is a chlorine pool with a different delivery mechanism: a cell in the return line electrolyzes dissolved salt and produces chlorine continuously. You keep salt around 3,200 parts per million — roughly a tenth of seawater, below the taste threshold — which is why salt pools feel softer on skin and gentler on eyes than a pool dosed from jugs. We install new systems, convert chlorine pools, and repair the ones that quit.

• salt water chlorinator installation
• chlorine to saltwater conversion
• salt cell replacement
• salt chlorine generator repair
• salt cell scaling and acid cleaning
• saltwater pool maintenance
• low salt and no flow errors
• salt system winterization
• saltwater vs chlorine pool
• corrosion protection for salt pools

Saltwater Chlorination Systems in Albuquerque, NM

Pool leak detection is harder in Albuquerque than almost anywhere for one specific reason: evaporation here is enormous, and low humidity, constant sun, and afternoon wind can pull a quarter to a half inch a day off an uncovered pool in June.

Plenty of homeowners spend a whole summer convinced they have a leak when what they actually have is a climate. The bucket test separates the two — float a bucket of pool water on the step, mark the inside and outside levels, wait 24 hours, and compare.

• swimming pool leak detection
• underground plumbing leak repair
• pressure testing pool lines
• dye testing pool cracks
• skimmer crack repair
• main drain leak
• light niche conduit leak
• structural crack repair
• pool losing water fast
• bucket test for pool leaks
• freeze damage repair
• spa and water feature leaks

Pool Leak Detection & Repair in Albuquerque, NM

Albuquerque Pool Pros services pumps, heaters, and filters that face high-desert dust and sharp night cooling. Equipment here fails differently than on the coast. Fine mesa dust packs cartridge grids and fouls DE grids faster than pollen ever would.

• pool pump repair
• pool motor replacement
• pump seal and impeller repair
• filter repair and o-ring replacement
• salt cell diagnostics
• heater troubleshooting
• valve actuator replacement
• control board repair
• freeze damage repair
• emergency pool repair
• equipment pad diagnostics
• green pool recovery

Pool Equipment Repair in Albuquerque, NM

Weekly pool cleaning and maintenance in Albuquerque is seasonal work with two very different modes, and a service that bills it like a year-round warm-climate route is charging you for the wrong thing. From April through October the pool is open and needs real weekly attention; from November through March it is closed, and what it needs is competent winterization. We do both, and we price them differently.

• weekly pool service
• chemical balancing service
• filter cleaning service
• algae treatment and prevention
• pool vacuuming and brushing
• seasonal pool opening
• vacation and rental pool service
• one-time pool cleanup
• green pool cleanup
• monsoon season pool recovery

Weekly Pool Cleaning & Maintenance in Albuquerque, NM

Pool winterization and freeze protection is the service that most distinguishes an Albuquerque pool from a Phoenix or Houston one, and it is the one people skip until the year they do not.

Water expands about nine percent when it freezes, and a single overnight low in the teens will split a pump housing, crack a filter tank, rupture a heater header, or break a skimmer throat. A proper closing costs a small fraction of those repairs and takes a few hours.

• pool winterization service
• pool closing service
• blowing out pool lines
• winter pool cover installation
• freeze protection setup
• antifreeze for pool plumbing
• skimmer guards and Gizzmos
• spring pool opening
• frozen pool pipe repair
• cracked filter tank replacement

Pool Winterization & Freeze Protection in Albuquerque, NM

Pool safety fences and covers earn their keep twice in Albuquerque. The safety case is not negotiable — drowning is the leading cause of accidental death for young children, and layered protection is what prevents it — and the second case is water and heat, because an uncovered pool in this climate loses a remarkable volume to evaporation every summer. A cover pays for itself in water, chemicals, and heating in a way it simply does not in humid climates.

• removable pool safety fence
• mesh pool fence installation
• self-closing pool gate
• automatic pool safety cover
• manual safety cover installation
• solar pool covers
• winter pool covers
• pool alarms and door alarms
• child safety pool barrier
• pool barrier code requirements
• safety cover repair and replacement

Pool Safety Fences & Covers in Albuquerque, NM

Everything listed on this page, for homeowners, across Albuquerque and the Albuquerque metro and the Rio Grande valley. 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.

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.

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.