Santa Monica Pool Construction designs and builds new custom pools across the Westside. From the first coastal-aware design conversation through engineering, permitting, excavation, the shotcrete shell, tile, plaster, and the deck, one accountable crew owns the whole build. We plan the pool to your lot and your budget, put the design and price in writing, and specify every material for the marine environment it has to live in.
- Coastal-aware custom design and 3D plans
- Permits and engineering taken care of
- Rebar and shotcrete shells
- Marine-tolerant finishes and fixtures
- Installed to current code
What a coastal pool build actually involves
A new pool is built from the soil up, and on the Westside the order matters as much as the materials. We open with a design that reads your lot honestly: the access for excavation gear, the grade, the soil, the setbacks, and how the ocean side of the property behaves. Once you approve the plan and the renderings, we pull the permits, handle the structural engineering, and lay out the dig. Excavation shapes the pool, then we set the steel, run the plumbing, tie the bonding grid, and shoot the gunite or shotcrete shell that gives the pool its strength.
From there the work moves to what you see and touch every day: the waterline tile, the coping, the interior finish, and the deck that frames the pool. On a coastal lot each of these is chosen for salt tolerance as well as looks, and because one crew owns the full sequence, those choices stay consistent instead of drifting between subcontractors.
We keep you in the loop at every stage, because a build that explains itself is a build that does not keep you up at night. We close with the equipment startup, a water balance, the final inspection, and a walkthrough that shows you how to run and protect your new pool in a marine setting.
Drawn for your Westside lot, not a template
The right pool for your home is the one shaped around your actual property. A compact Santa Monica yard, a tight side-yard access, a particular soil profile, or an ocean-side exposure all change what the pool should be and how it should be protected. We design with those facts in front of us from the first sketch, so the plan we hand you is one we are confident we can build without expensive surprises mid-dig.
We also design for how you genuinely live outdoors. A household that wants a shallow lounging shelf and an evening soak needs a different layout than one focused on lap swimming or hosting. We shape the depth, the steps, the benches, and the features to your life rather than to a catalog page, and you see all of it rendered before we break ground.
Because we build what we draw, the decisions that drive both look and cost get made together. The shell, the equipment, the finishes, and the deck influence one another, and planning them as a single coastal project is how the finished yard ends up cohesive instead of a set of separately bid pieces.
Engineered to outlast the marine layer
The structure is what decides how long a pool lasts, so it gets the most care. We engineer the shell for your soil and slope, set the steel to spec, and shoot the shotcrete or gunite so the shell is sound for decades. The plumbing is routed for efficient circulation, the bonding and grounding are done right, and the equipment pad is built to code and sited to take the coastal weather.
Finishes near the ocean have to earn their keep. We use quality plaster, quartz, and pebble interiors, durable tile and coping, and decking that holds up to sun, salt, and bare feet. We pick them with you to suit the design and your household, never as a reflexive upsell.
We build to local pool code and the relevant ANSI/APSP and ICC-5 standards, with the engineering and inspections a coastal pool deserves. If you are planning a new pool in Santa Monica, call 213-589-2745 for a free design consultation and an honest, written plan.
One call, every pool project
A pool is a design-build project, so pool construction rarely stands alone, it connects to pool renovation, pool remodeling, pool resurfacing, building the deck, pool equipment installation, and our crew handles all of it as one accountable team. We bring the same service to Pool Construction in West Los Angeles, Marina Del Rey pool construction, Culver City pool construction, Playa Vista pool construction and everywhere else across the Santa Monica area.
If you searched for pool builders near me, you have reached a local pool builder, call 213-589-2745 any time. For background, read Spas and Water Features: Designing Them Into the Pool, Not Onto It on our blog, or head back to our Santa Monica home page to see everything we do.