Pool Construction Process

How to Create the Custom Pool of Your Dreams

When you imagine your dream pool, what do you see? What does luxury mean to you?

Elite Pools By Aloha is the Little Rock, Arkansas vinyl pool builder that helps clients discover and enjoy extraordinary swimming pool experiences.

Our finely tuned process ensures that we design the best swimming pools and outdoor living spaces. We achieve transformations that delight our clients, because we specialize in seamlessly blending functional details with the natural environment.

We offer expert craftsmanship, creative inspiration, and innovative solutions that we are pleased our clients enjoy. Please explore our portfolio to learn more about the work we do. We hope you’ll build your dream pool with us.

Are you ready to create with us today? We look forward to getting to know you and your space. Contact Elite Pools by Aloha and let’s discuss how we can help you achieve your own private oasis. 

After you sign up:

Once signed up you will get an assigned start week. 

There are 8-10 stages or separate crews on a typical build.

We schedule the crews a week or 2 apart so there is never a bottle neck where one crew is waiting on the other to finish.  This down time can be challenging for you because you are ready to be done.  Rest assured the crew you are waiting on is diligently finishing the pool just ahead of you.

Our goal is the highest quality pool built efficiently in a timely manner.  Emphasis on quality.

A couple weeks before your “Start Week” we will come out to stake the pool out.  At this time we will determine access to the site, check for utilities and locate the equipment pad location.

Pools with a custom coping or border:

Dig Day! It’s finally arrived.  Your pool is under construction.  We will excavate and pile dirt … everywhere.

Walls: Next crew arrives and assembles the composite walls and braces.  After checked for precise location and elevation the footing goes on.  Sometimes they pour the shallow end and the equipment pad at this time.

Plumbing: Plumbing crew sets skimmers & returns strategically.  Next they move over to the equipment pad and get it plumbed.

Backfill: Excavators, skid steers & dump trucks.  At this point the backfill crew will consult with you to determine where the extra concrete if any goes.   If you are getting a rock coping, we will be forming up the footing for the rock to sit on.  If you are getting a decorative stamped border, we’ll form it up and get ready to pour it.

Electrical Bonding and the border: If we are using our regular electrician, he will bond the pool with a #8 bare copper wire.  If your electrician, you will call him now.  After bonding and inspection by the city we will set up and pour the border.

Bottom and Liner: Now that the border is on, we will pour the bottom of the pool.  Next day the liner goes in.  the liner is temperature sensitive so we may have to wait on the weatherman.  You will be instructed as to when to turn the water off as we will be filling the pool up in stages.  Sometimes several stages.

(At this point the pool is full of water, circulating and the border is poured)

Apron: This stage can take a couple weeks.  We’ll revisit your plans for extra concrete.   If stamped concrete, we’ll order and get in the coloring.  Pour day is usually a big day, there’s lots going on.  After we pour we will rake the forms and start cleaning up.   

Pool School: Final clean up including the water clean up is being done.  We will be in touch to schedule the pool school where will take as much time as you want.  No rush because there’s lots to go over.    

Pools with standard Coping:

Dig Day! It’s finally arrived.  Your pool is under construction.  We will excavate and pile dirt … everywhere.

Walls: Next crew arrives and assembles the composite walls and braces.  After checked for precise location and elevation the footing goes on.  Sometimes they pour the shallow end and the equipment pad at this time.

Plumbing: Plumbing crew sets skimmers & returns strategically.  Next they move over to the equipment pad and get it plumbed.

Bottom and Liner: Now that the border is on, we will pour the bottom of the pool.  Next day the liner goes in.  the liner is temperature sensitive so we may have to wait on the weatherman.  You will be instructed as to when to turn the water off as we will be filling the pool up in stages.  Sometimes several stages.

Backfill: Excavators, skid steers & dump trucks.  At this point the backfill crew will consult with you to determine where the extra concrete if any goes.   

Apron: This stage can take a couple weeks.  We’ll revisit your plans for extra concrete.   If stamped concrete, we’ll order and get in the coloring.  Pour day is usually a big day, there’s lots going on.  After we pour we will rake the forms and start cleaning up.   

Pool School: Final clean up including the water clean up is being done.  We will be in touch to schedule the pool school where will take as much time as you want.  No rush because there’s lots to go over.    

We chose Scott after meeting him at Aloha Pools. We had absolutely no idea how we wanted our pool to look. Scott designed a beautiful pool that matched the architecture of the house and accentuated our back yard. He is always available for questions and was a pleasure to work with. We hope that we don’t move soon, but will use any future builds!

Beth and Angelo Coppola

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