Killeen Pool Builders: New Pool Construction, Remodeling, Resurfacing & Repair
Residential and commercial pool contractors serving Killeen, Harker Heights, Copperas Cove and Bell County. Free design, free written estimate, licensed and insured.
- Licensed & Insured
- 15+ Years in Central Texas
- Free In-Home Design
- Written Workmanship Warranty
Our Pool Services in Killeen, TX
Gunite & Shotcrete Pool Construction
Gunite pool construction gets you whatever shape you draw rather than whatever shape came out of a mold, and around Killeen the shape is the easy part. The hard part is what's under your grass, because most Bell and Coryell county lots sit on shallow Edwards limestone and caliche, and rock is the single biggest swing in a Central Texas pool price.
Fiberglass Pool Installation
Fiberglass pool installation trades shape for speed: the shell is built in a factory, arrives on a truck, gets craned into the hole, and a clean job goes from bare dirt to swimming in two to three weeks. On Killeen's rockier lots it's often the cheaper route as well, because a one-piece shell needs a smaller and more forgiving excavation than a gunite pool with its plumbing trenches and equipment runs, so when we hit limestone the hammer time is shorter and the bill is smaller.
Vinyl Liner Pools & Liner Replacement
Vinyl liner replacement takes two to four days and costs a fraction of replastering a gunite pool, which is the whole appeal of owning one. The catch in Central Texas is that there aren't many liner pools here, so the owners who have one spend a while on the phone finding somebody who still stocks bead track and knows what vermiculite is.
Pool Remodeling & Renovation
Pool remodeling covers the jobs that change the pool rather than just refinish it: adding a spa with a spillover, cutting in a tanning ledge, filling a deep end, raising a bond beam for a waterfall, or expanding the shell to claim back some patio. We do a lot of them in Killeen, because Fort Cavazos moves families every two or three years and a lot of these pools carry four owners' worth of repairs that nobody was here long enough to do properly.
Pool Resurfacing & Replastering
Pool resurfacing comes around sooner in Central Texas than the brochures suggest, because our water comes out of the Edwards and Trinity aquifers loaded with calcium, which is excellent for your bones and hard on your plaster. You notice the failure by feel before you see it: the floor stops being smooth and starts being abrasive, and somebody climbs out of the shallow end with a scraped toe.
Waterline Tile & Coping
Waterline tile takes an unfair share of the abuse in a pool: a six-inch strip carrying sunscreen, body oil, hard-water calcium, relentless UV and a freeze most Januaries. It's also the first thing anybody looks at, which is why a pool with a fresh tile band and average plaster reads better than the reverse, and why this is one of the highest-return jobs on the whole site.
Pool Decking & Hardscape
A pool deck in Killeen has to solve heat before it solves looks. Plain gray broom-finished concrete will hit roughly 140 degrees on a July afternoon, which is why everybody in this town sprints from the back door to the water like the lawn is on fire.
Spa & Hot Tub Installation
Spa and hot tub installation pays for itself between November and March, when the pool is too cold to be interesting and the water you actually want to get into is 102 degrees. Killeen gets a solid stretch of that, and a heated spa turns a good chunk of the off-season into something you use on a Tuesday night rather than look at through the window.
Water Features & Waterfalls
Pool waterfalls get bought for the look and kept for the sound. A sheer descent does a genuinely good job of covering road noise off Highway 190, and if you're under the Fort Cavazos flight paths, a bit of moving water in the yard does more for the place than any brochure photo suggests.
Pool Lighting & LED Retrofits
A pool light replacement is the cheapest upgrade that changes how the backyard feels after dark, and if yours is still an original 500-watt incandescent, you own something that hums, eats bulbs every couple of seasons, and makes clean water look faintly yellow. A modern LED puts out more usable light on around 40 watts, lasts roughly 30,000 hours, and does color if you want it.
Pool Automation & Controls
Pool automation puts the pumps, valves, heater, lights and water features on a schedule and on your phone. Nobody puts it on their wish list and nobody takes it back out, because within a week the spa is at 102 before you get home, the pool light comes on at dusk without anyone deciding, and the pump runs its long slow filtration cycle overnight while power is cheap.
Pool Heaters & Heat Pumps
A pool heater turns a four-month pool into a nine-month pool, and in Central Texas that's the best return per dollar in the entire backyard. Two technologies, two completely different personalities, and picking the wrong one is the most common expensive mistake we get called in to look at.
Variable-Speed Pumps & Filtration
A variable-speed pool pump does the same daily job as your old single-speed on a fraction of the electricity, and if you still have a single-speed it's probably the second-largest draw in your house after the air conditioner. A 1.5 HP single-speed motor spins at 3,450 RPM every second it runs, whether the pool needs that or not.
Saltwater Chlorination Systems
A saltwater pool is still a chlorine pool, and clearing that up first saves a lot of confusion. A salt cell passes a low current through dissolved salt and makes chlorine on site, steadily, all day, instead of you carrying jugs of liquid chlorine home from the store.
Pool Leak Detection & Repair
Pool leak detection starts with one number: a Killeen pool loses about a quarter inch a day to evaporation in July, so half an inch a day means you have a leak. The water bill is the smallest part of the problem, because a return line weeping under your deck is quietly washing out the base that concrete sits on, and you'll meet that again next year in the shape of a settled slab and a cracked joint.
Weekly Pool Cleaning & Maintenance
Weekly pool cleaning isn't hard, it's just weekly, and it never stops. A Central Texas summer is where good intentions fall over: water at 90 degrees burns through free chlorine in about a day, our fill water arrives full of calcium, and one thunderstorm rolling off the Lampasas Cut Plain drops enough debris and phosphate to turn a clear pool green by Thursday.
Commercial Pool Construction & Service
Commercial pool service solves a completely different problem to a backyard pool. Nobody staying three months cares what the tile looks like, they care that the pool's open, and the property cares that it passes inspection and that nothing happens that ends in a claim.
Pool Safety Fencing & Covers
A pool safety fence and cover are the two things that actually stand between a curious three-year-old and the water, and for most Killeen backyards a removable mesh fence is the right first move. Drowning is the leading cause of accidental death for children between one and four, and what works is layers: a barrier, a latch, an alarm, and a clear understanding of which adult is watching.
Pool Demolition & Removal
Pool removal gets recommended less often than it should, mostly because the company you're asking would rather sell you a remodel. We'll do the job straight, whether it's a rental where the liability outweighs the rent, an inherited shell that has been green for three summers, or an owner who would simply rather have a level yard and room for a shop.
Killeen Pool Builders is an insured swimming pool contractor with over 15 years of experience building, remodeling and servicing pools for residential and commercial properties in Killeen, TX.
Our work covers gunite and shotcrete pool construction, fiberglass pool installation, vinyl liner replacement, pool remodeling and renovation, resurfacing and replastering, waterline tile and coping, pool decking and hardscape, spa and hot tub installation, water features, LED pool lighting, pool automation, heaters and heat pumps, variable-speed pumps and filtration, saltwater chlorination, leak detection, weekly maintenance, and commercial pools for hotels, apartment communities, RV parks and HOAs.
We build with PebbleTec and polished quartz interiors, glass mosaic and porcelain waterline tile, travertine coping and decking, cartridge and DE filtration, sheer descents and bubblers, and chemical automation that holds the water balanced while you are away.
Central Texas ground and Central Texas water shape most of what we do. Shallow Edwards limestone and caliche mean rock excavation is the single biggest variable in a Killeen pool quote, so we probe the site before we hand you a number instead of writing rock in as a change order later.
Our aquifer water is hard enough to scale a salt cell in a season and a heat exchanger not long after, so we size equipment with headroom and put descaling on the calendar. Hard freezes are rare but real, so freeze protection goes on every automation system we install.
Killeen Pool Builders is licensed, insured and bonded, a member of the Pool & Hot Tub Alliance, and every construction, remodel and resurfacing project carries a written workmanship warranty.
What Killeen Customers Say
Three quotes and only these people actually checked what was under the yard before giving us a number. We did hit rock, it cost what they said it would cost, and there were no surprise invoices. That alone was worth it.
Bought a house with a pool that had clearly been ignored by the last two tenants. Green to clean took four days and they were straight with us that a drain and acid wash was the better option for the staining. It looks new now.
We were deployed for nine months and they kept the pool running the whole time. Written report every week with a photo. Came home to clear water and a note about the pump seal they had replaced.
Salt cell had scaled solid. Instead of selling me a new one they cleaned it, showed me how to do it myself every few months, and charged me for a service call. I have used them for everything since.
We asked about building a pool with two years left on the assignment and they told us honestly it would not pay back at resale. We built anyway because we wanted the summers, but I have never had a contractor talk themselves down like that.
Why Killeen Chooses Killeen Pool Builders
- ✓Over 15 years building and servicing pools across Killeen, Harker Heights and Bell County
- ✓Rock and caliche excavation probed and priced up front, never added later as a change order
- ✓Weekly service and remote monitoring for owners who are deployed, traveling or between duty stations
- ✓Pre-sale, pre-rental and move-out pool work, with honest advice on what actually returns money
- ✓Residential and commercial, from backyard pools to hotel, RV park, apartment and HOA pools
- ✓Equipment specified for very hard Central Texas water, with descaling built into the service plan
- ✓Insured and bonded, Pool & Hot Tub Alliance members, written workmanship warranty
- ✓Free in-home 3D design and a free written estimate
About Killeen Pool Builders in Killeen, TX
Killeen Pool Builders has spent more than 15 years building and fixing pools across Bell and Coryell counties, and two things define the work here. The first is rock.
There is a real difference between a yard that digs and a yard that has to be cut, and getting that wrong is how a firm quote turns into a series of uncomfortable phone calls. We probe before we price. The second is that this town moves.
Families arrive and leave every two or three years, which means a lot of the pools we work on have had four owners and no continuity of care whatsoever.
We run our own crews. The person who measures your yard is the person answering the phone in week six, and the excavation, steel, plumbing, gunite, tile and deck work is done by people we employ rather than whoever bid lowest that month.
We are licensed, insured and bonded, we carry general liability and workers' compensation, we are members of the Pool & Hot Tub Alliance, and every construction, remodel and resurfacing project comes with a written workmanship warranty in plain English.
The rest of it is being useful rather than pushy. We will tell you when a repair beats a remodel, when white plaster is genuinely good enough, when a fiberglass shell in three weeks makes more sense than a twelve-week gunite build, and when the honest answer is that a pool is not the right purchase for your situation.
We look after pools for owners who are deployed or away, we do pre-sale and move-out work on rentals, and we would rather be the company you call for fifteen years than the one that maximized a single invoice. The estimate is always free.
How It Works
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1. Site probe, design and written quote
We measure the yard and check what is under it, because limestone decides the budget here more than anything else. Then we design the pool in 3D and give you an itemized quote with the excavation priced honestly rather than left open.
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2. Permits and excavation
We pull the City of Killeen permits and book the inspections. Our own crew handles the dig, the steel and the plumbing, so the person who quoted your job is still the person running it in week six.
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3. Gunite, tile, interior and deck
Shell placed at 4,000 PSI and wet-cured for a week, then waterline tile, coping, the interior finish and the decking. Equipment is sized to your pool rather than to whatever was on the truck.
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4. Fill, startup and handover
We fill it, run the 28-day startup brushing and staged chemistry on a new or resurfaced interior, and walk you through the equipment pad until you actually understand it. Weekly service is available, including while you are deployed or away.
Commercial Pool Construction & Service in Killeen and Bell County
Killeen has a large stock of apartment communities, extended-stay hotels and RV parks serving a population that turns over constantly, and we build, remodel and maintain pools for all of them along with HOAs and community centers across Bell County.
Everything runs to Texas Administrative Code Chapter 265: VGB-compliant anti-entrapment main drain covers, a functioning ADA means of entry, turnover rates matched to the design bather load, documented daily logs, and an automated chemical controller so free chlorine and pH are recorded rather than estimated.
Property managers get scheduled visits with written reports, one phone number, and remodels scheduled for the off-season instead of over a holiday weekend when occupancy peaks.
- ✓Hotels and extended-stay properties
- ✓Apartment and condominium communities
- ✓RV parks and campground pools
- ✓HOAs and community centers
- ✓Texas Administrative Code Chapter 265 compliance
- ✓VGB-compliant main drain covers and ADA pool lifts
- ✓Automated chemical controllers with documented daily logs
- ✓Off-season remodels planned around your occupancy
Service Areas
Killeen Pool Builders serves Killeen, TX and surrounding communities including:
Recent Projects Across Bell and Coryell counties
Frequently Asked Questions
Why do pool quotes in Killeen vary so much?
Rock. Bell and Coryell county lots sit on shallow Edwards limestone and caliche, and the difference between a yard that digs with a standard excavator and one that needs a hydraulic hammer or a rock saw can be thousands of dollars.
Some builders quote the easy case and add the rock later as a change order, which is how a firm number becomes a moving one in week two. We probe the site first and price the excavation honestly, which occasionally makes our first number look higher than somebody else's and almost always makes our last number lower.
How much does a new pool cost in Killeen, TX?
Size, depth, interior finish, decking, features and excavation conditions drive the number far more than anything else.
A modest fiberglass shell with a small deck sits at the bottom of the range, a mid-size gunite pool with a tanning ledge and travertine decking sits in the middle, and adding a spa, a raised wall with sheer descents, automation and an outdoor kitchen puts you in a different bracket.
The free in-home 3D design comes with an itemized quote so you can see what each feature costs and remove what you do not want.
We are PCSing in two years. Is a pool worth it?
Honest answer: sometimes not, and we will say so. A pool adds less to a resale price than it costs to build almost everywhere, and Killeen is no exception. If you are here for two years and buying purely as an investment, the numbers do not work.
If you are here for two years and want your family to use the yard for two summers, that is a completely different and perfectly good reason, and a fiberglass shell in three weeks probably makes more sense than a twelve-week gunite build. We would rather have that conversation than sell you the bigger project.
Can you look after our pool while we are deployed or away?
Yes, and a good part of our weekly service book is exactly that. Full chemical management, brushing, vacuuming, filter service and equipment checks, with a written report each visit so you can see what was done and what was found. Pool automation with remote access is worth adding if nobody is home, because it lets you and us see the equipment status from a phone rather than guessing.
How often does a pool need resurfacing in Central Texas?
Standard white plaster gets 10 to 15 years here and our hard aquifer water pushes it toward the low end. Polished quartz gets a few more and holds color better. A pebble finish such as PebbleTec runs 15 to 20 and hides calcium deposits far better.
The tell is texture: when the floor goes rough enough to scrape a foot, the cream coat is gone. Staining that will not brush out and plaster popping around the returns are the other signs.
Do you service commercial pools?
We do. Hotels, extended-stay properties, apartment communities, RV parks, HOAs and community centers across Killeen and Bell County use us for construction, remodels, resurfacing and scheduled maintenance. Everything runs to Texas Administrative Code Chapter 265, including VGB-compliant main drain covers, an ADA means of entry, correct turnover rates, and an automated chemical controller with documented daily logs.