About Pitt County Pool Construction

We do pool construction in Greenville, NC and across Pitt County. Gunite, fiberglass and vinyl liner inground pools, decks, spas, equipment and renovations. This page explains how we approach the work and what you can expect, which is more useful to you than adjectives.

Site first, always

Every project starts with somebody standing in your back yard. Not a phone quote, not a satellite image, not a price per square foot pulled off a rate card. There is a reason for that, and it is specific to this part of North Carolina.

Pitt County is Coastal Plain. Our soils formed from sand, silt and clay laid down as coastal and river sediment, and they are generally acidic. On the well-drained series the seasonal high water table sits below five feet. On a great many others — the flats and shallow depressions where subdivisions and farm houses alike get built — the county soil survey describes the seasonal high water table as being at or near the surface. Those two conditions produce completely different pools at completely different prices.

You cannot tell which one you have from the street. So we walk it, probe it, look at where water stands after rain, find the septic if there is one, check equipment access, and read the zoning and any HOA covenants before we draw anything.

Written pricing, itemised, before work starts

You get a written price with line items rather than a single number or a range. It says what is included, what is not, and which items could move and why. If groundwater management is needed, it appears as a line so you can see what it is costing you. If it is not needed, it does not appear.

This is not generosity, it is self-interest. Vague pricing produces arguments halfway through a build. Itemised pricing produces a project where everybody knows what was agreed.

We say no to things

There are situations where the honest answer is that a particular pool should not be built on a particular lot — a fiberglass shell that cannot physically be delivered to the back yard, a design that would sit too deep in the water table, a deck layout that would put hard surface over a septic drainfield, a pool footprint that a mapped flood zone rules out. We will tell you that during the site visit rather than after you have paid a deposit.

We will also tell you when the cheaper option is the right one. A well-built vinyl liner pool with proper drainage underneath is a better outcome than an underfunded gunite project with the groundwater work cut out of it to hit a number.

What we build for, specifically

Three local conditions drive nearly every technical decision we make:

The water table. Hydrostatic uplift is the leading cause of destroyed pools in eastern North Carolina. Relief valves, dewatering standpipes, stone backfill, raised bond beams and well points during excavation are all responses to it.

Rainfall volume. Hurricane Floyd put roughly 20 inches on Greenville in September 1999, on ground already saturated by Dennis ten days earlier, and drove the Tar River to a record crest. Matthew in 2016 brought the third highest crest on record. Florence followed in 2018. Deck drainage, equipment pad elevation and overflow routing are all designed with that in mind rather than for an average August.

A long, hot season. Pools here run hard from April through October. That drives chlorine demand, chemistry swings, pump hours and surface wear. It is why we push people toward tougher interior finishes and modern variable-speed equipment even when the cheaper option is available.

How the process runs

1. Call or send the form. Four questions, and we call you back.
2. Free site visit. We walk the yard and talk through what is possible and what is not.
3. Design and written price. Usually one to three weeks, depending on complexity and how much back-and-forth you want.
4. Permits. We handle them. City of Greenville, Pitt County, or the relevant town or county elsewhere in the service area.
5. Build. With the inspection stops that the code requires, because those exist for good reasons.
6. Start-up and handover. Including how to run the thing, which matters more than people expect if you have never owned a pool.

Where we work

Greenville and all of Pitt County, plus Winterville, Ayden, Farmville, Grifton, Bethel, Simpson, and out to Tarboro, Washington, Kinston, Wilson, Rocky Mount, Williamston, Goldsboro, New Bern and Trent Woods. No travel charge inside that footprint. Full detail on the service areas page.

Questions before you are ready to talk to anyone? The FAQ page has twenty-eight of them answered plainly, including the cost ones.

Questions people ask before they build