Pool and outdoor kitchen build. Company recs

You’re going to need to get your ideas in order before they come out.

Heater/chiller?
Pool coping style and what flat work (walking surface around) will be needed if any.
Will you want a spa? Elevated or pool level. How you want the seating oriented as well,
Will you do a splash pad where you can put in-pool loungers and umbrella?
What about seating ledges?
Plaster color?

If you know the general size that’s great, but most companies will give you recommendations on all the above, but it’s a lot to process if you haven’t thought about it yet.

Most pool systems sre pretty idiot proof these days. We did a system with remote control that we set on a schedule. You can operate lights and jets as well.

Most of the big pool guys in Nola use the same company to do all excavations, plumbing and electrical. It’s a little strange, not sure if BR is like that.

Shop around and ask you neighbors if they have newer pools. I’ve seen some serious deals around Nola this past year.

Sign up and start reading the forums at Troublefreepools. Vast amounts of knowledge, especially for someone who has never had or built a pool like you or I. We built ours in ‘22 and have thoroughly enjoyed it. Their pool math app to test your own chemicals is very easy to do.

second the trouble free pools rec. Everything I have learned in the last 3 years since putting in a pool is that I should have put in a salt water generator. I still have about 50 lbs of chlorine so I'm not switching right now, but I probably will in the future.

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Pinnacle Exterior Construction

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Met with their estimator for my outdoor kitchen for 1.5 hours. Never received a quote.

They sprayed gunite for my neighbors pool in a thunderstorm. Collapsed on them, had to come back 2 days later and jack hammer it out and redo.

Scapes did my outdoor kitchen and I’m very pleased.

The suggestions can be endless. Start with the type of pool (fiberglass, liner, or gunite) and go from there.

Fiberglass - Least long term maintenance, chemistry is really stable, but fewer options on shape and size
Liner - more options on shape and size, but liner eventually goes out
Gunite - options on size and shape are nearly endless, but will have to recoat the concrete, and of the three, it needs the most attention on chemistry.

I got a quote from Pinnacle for my outdoor kitchen. I don't think they were doing any of the work themselves, subbing out everything.

I handled it myself for half the money.

All above is correct but all above is easily avoided by a set of drawings. Hire a designer to draw exactly what you want, money well spent. Then go get pricing to compare

These would also serve at the construction documents which as an owner, you will need to review and approve

When I’ve been around them, they’ve done a great job. Thanks for sharing your input though. Good to know.

Russell Pools
And GW Oliver probably two that have been around the longest.