Dallas / Pool Renovation

Pool Renovation & Remodeling in Dallas

Full pool remodels in Dallas — new tile, new coping, fresh stone. One coordinated project, one timeline, a 20-year-old pool that looks new.

Dallas has more aging pools than any other city in DFW. Pools built in the 70s, 80s, and 90s across Lakewood, Preston Hollow, Bluffview, Lake Highlands, Casa Linda, M Streets, and the M-streets-adjacent neighborhoods. Most of these pools are structurally sound — the shell is fine. What's failing is the finish: cracked coping, popping tile, rough plaster, dated stonework. A full pool remodel takes those pools and makes them feel brand new without the cost or timeline of a new build.

The typical Dallas pool remodel we run is tile + coping + stonework around the deck. New waterline tile, new travertine or natural stone coping, fresh stone veneers on raised walls or spa surrounds. About 80% of the pools we remodel get this scope. The pool plaster might also be due — if so we coordinate the surface scope with a plaster specialist so everything happens in one drain cycle.

We see a lot of pools where another contractor did the tile or coping wrong — wrong adhesive, no expansion joints, sloppy grout, missing waterproofing. If your pool was tiled or recoped in the last 5 years and it's already failing, that's not bad luck. It's bad workmanship. We tear out what's wrong and redo it properly so it holds.

Doing tile and coping at the same time saves real money. Pool's drained once, scaffolding goes up once, the crew mobilizes once. A piecemeal approach — tile this year, coping in 2 years, plaster the year after — runs you 30-50% more total than bundling.

Dallas-specific challenge: Blackland Prairie clay. Every remodel we do here installs with materials and methods rated for the soil. Expansion joints in the coping, flexible bonding behind the tile, drainage on the deck. We follow PHTA construction standards. The work has to last in this climate — not just look good for the first season.

A remodel is also the moment to update the outdoor space around the pool — outdoor kitchen, fire pit or outdoor fireplace, or new patio stone. We coordinate the full scope as one project so everything matches.