What we do

Why we are different

The best thing about our custom pools is they are created with your style in mind. The expert team at Top Pools has professional pool designers, contractors and installers. We stay up to date with the latest in custom pools, innovations and look forward to partnering with you to bring you the best pool experience possible. Don’t settle for just any pool builder, we’ll craft a gorgeous and luxurious pool area where you can relax and soak it all in.

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The Pool Building Experts In Australia

If you are thinking of adding new and unique water features to your backyard, we recommend you take your landscaping into consideration first. Custom pools and infinity pools look stunning when they are incorporated into the landscaping of your backyard, complementing any walls or steps, lighting fixtures, plants, or privacy measures you have. If you have your landscaping well situated prior to visiting us, we can do our part to customize our build to match it. If you have a small backyard, we can design the perfect small pool or “spool” to fit the area. The result will be a stunning, all-encompassing design that transforms your entire yard.

Top Pools Construction Process

Building an in-ground swimming pool requires a significant amount of trust in your swimming pool builder and landscape architect. At Top Pools, our construction process is structured and practiced, and our crews work efficiently and thoroughly through each step. A seasoned Project Manager will oversee your project from start to finish and guide you through construction to ensure that your pool is delivered on-time and on-budget.

Top Pools Construction Services team begins working on your project as soon as the design is approved. The first step is to convert the design plans into working computer-aided drawings (CAD). During this step, our Drafting team will consult with engineers and landscape architects as necessary to prepare all documents needed to secure a town 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.

 

 

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 council are:

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

These services/installations are not performed by Top 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.