Upon completion of working construction drawings, Top Pools will submit all required paperwork to your town building department. Depending on the town, scope of project and time of year, the permit review process can take anywhere from several weeks to several months. Top Pools will remain actively involved throughout the duration in order to secure the necessary building permit.

Upon completion of working construction drawings, Top Pools will submit all required paperwork to your town building department. Depending on the town, scope of project and time of year, the permit review process can take anywhere from several weeks to several months. Top Pools will remain actively involved throughout the duration in order to secure the necessary building permit. 

Top Pools will properly prepare your property to accommodate the project specifications. This includes creating an access road to accommodate large vehicles and machinery, erecting temporary safety fencing, clearing the pool site of trees, bushes or other obstacles, and putting up protective barriers for existing structures as necessary.

To form the pool, Shoreline crews will stake and rope the exact dimensions of the future swimming pool to guide excavation. At this point you will be able to get a true picture of the size and location of your swimming pool. Next, the excavation team will begin digging within the borders of formed pool outline. When excavation is complete, you will have an open pit roughly the size and shape of your swimming pool.

Plumbing and electrical trades are brought in early in the construction process to run all piping and wires and/or sleeves before concrete is poured for the shell of the swimming pool.

Once the plumbing and electrical lines are run, the Top pools crew will begin preparing the pool for concrete (also referred to as Shotcrete). Rebar is used to frame the walls, steps and other interior structural elements of the swimming pool. Our team will then install the interior concrete shell of the swimming pool.

Tile and coping installation are the next processes to be completed. Top Pool’s expert will first set the tile band around the interior perimeter of the pool. Next, they will lay coping around the top perimeter of the pool. Coping is the stone border that creates the frame or “edge” of the pool. Typically, coping is made of the same stone as the pool deck, but it’s it cut into long rectangular pieces ranging in width from 12” to 24”.

With the shell, tile and coping complete, Our experienced team begin stonework for the full outdoor living project. This includes decks, patios or raised terraces, structural features such as retaining walls, walkways and steps as well as entertainment features such as fire pits and outdoor kitchens.

When an impermeable structure is built on any property, it must be established whether rainwater will have a negative impact on neighboring properties. If an engineer determines that will be the case, a drainage system must be designed and implemented. Plans for the drainage system will be submitted to the town during the permitting process and installed at this phase prior to the application of the pools’ interior finish.

The interior finish is one of the final steps of swimming pool construction and will provide the wearable surface of the pool. The most common finishes are standard plaster (or marcite) and exposed aggregate such as quartz or pebble. The pool is filled with water shortly the interior finish is applied, and a code compliant fence will need to be complete at this time.

Once pool construction is finished, the pool permit can be closed, and the Certificate of Occupancy “C of O” process can begin. The important elements that need to be addressed in order to secure a C of O from your town are:

• As Built Survey
• Drainage Compliance
• Code Compliant Fencing
• Alarms (if deemed necessary)
• Final Trade Inspections

These services/installations are not performed by Shoreline Pools, but we will gladly provide trusted contractor referrals and/or oversee the coordination of these final components through the issuing of the C of O if requested.