Brownsville Custom Pool Pros: Gunite Construction, Remodeling, Resurfacing & Weekly Service
Residential and commercial pool building across the Rio Grande Valley. Free 3D design, licensed and insured crews, 15+ years in the Valley.
- ✓Licensed & Insured
- ✓15+ Years in the Valley
- ✓Free 3D In-Home Design
- ✓Se Habla Español
Why Brownsville Chooses Brownsville Custom Pool Pros
- ✓Over 15 years building and servicing pools across Cameron County
- ✓Residential and commercial — backyard gunite pools to hotel and HOA amenities
- ✓In-house crews from excavation to start-up, not rotating subcontractors
- ✓3D design and an itemized quote before anyone breaks ground
- ✓Insured and bonded, with a written workmanship warranty
- ✓Se habla español
How It Works
1. Design and firm quote
We measure the yard, check setbacks and easements, and build your pool in 3D so you can see the tanning ledge before anyone touches a shovel. The quote is itemized line by line — plaster grade, tile allowance, deck square footage, equipment model numbers. No vague allowances that balloon in month three.
2. Permits, layout and excavation
We pull the City of Brownsville permits, call in utility locates, spray the shell layout on the grass, and dig. Valley clay moves, so we over-excavate where the soil calls for it and set the bond beam accordingly.
3. Steel, plumbing, gunite, tile and finish
Rebar cage, plumbing pressure test, gunite or shotcrete shell, seven-day water cure, then tile, coping, decking, equipment set, and the interior finish. Same in-house crew from the dig to the fill line.
4. Start-up and handoff
We fill it, brush the plaster daily through the cure, balance the chemistry, walk you through the pump schedule and the salt cell, and hand you a warranty packet. Weekly service is optional, not a trap.
Our Pool Services in Brownsville, TX
New Pool Construction
New pool construction in Brownsville means a gunite shell: a rebar cage tied on site, concrete shot pneumatically in one continuous placement, and a seven-day water cure before anything touches the interior. It is slower and costlier than dropping a prefabricated shell in a hole, and it is why a properly built gunite pool in the Valley is still holding water when its owner sells the house.
Fiberglass Pool Installation
Fiberglass pool installation takes three to five weeks in Brownsville instead of the three months a gunite build needs, because the shell arrives finished — molded at a factory, trucked in, craned into a prepared excavation, plumbed, backfilled with washed gravel, and decked. The gel coat surface is non-porous, so it grips less algae than plaster and takes noticeably less chlorine to keep clear through a Valley August.
Vinyl Liner Pools & Liner Replacement
Vinyl liner replacement is the job most liner pools in the Valley need, and the ones out here — installed through the eighties and nineties — are usually on their second or third. A liner is a wear item: sun, chlorine, and time make the vinyl brittle at the waterline, the pattern fades, the corners slip out of the track, and eventually a seam lets go.
Pool Remodeling & Renovation
Pool remodeling in Brownsville almost always starts with a shell that is still sound and everything attached to it being finished. A remodel replaces the waterline tile, coping, interior finish, equipment pad, and lighting, and often reshapes how the pool gets used — a tanning ledge cut into the shallow end, a raised spa with a spillover, a swim-up bench, or a bubbler wall along the back.
Pool Resurfacing & Replastering
Pool resurfacing and replastering is what a Brownsville pool needs somewhere between year eight and year twelve, when hard fill water and year-round sun leave the plaster chalky, rough enough to skin a heel, and streaked past any amount of brushing. It is not cosmetic maintenance — a failing interior lets water reach the shell, and that is a far more expensive conversation.
Waterline Tile & Coping
Waterline tile and coping replacement is the fastest way to make a Brownsville pool read as current instead of dated, and it is also the most abused surface on the pool. The tile band sits exactly where hard-water calcium builds, where sunscreen film collects, and where the water slaps all day long.
Pool Decks & Hardscape
Pool decks and hardscape are where you spend eight hours of a Brownsville summer day against maybe two in the water, so we design decking as a room rather than a border around the pool. Two questions govern everything: how hot the surface gets underfoot at four in the afternoon in July, and whether it still drains when a tropical system dumps six inches overnight.
Spa & Hot Tub Installation
Spa and hot tub installation is the single most-used upgrade we build onto a Brownsville pool. The pool itself is warm bath water for five months and slightly too cool for another four, but a spa holds 102 degrees whenever you want it, which turns a backyard into a room you use in January.
Water Features & Fountains
Pool water features — sheer descents, bubblers, laminar jets, scuppers, and boulder waterfalls — change how a Brownsville backyard feels more than any other single upgrade. They earn their keep practically too: the sound covers expressway traffic, and the aeration takes a couple of degrees off a pool running warm in August.
LED Pool Lighting
LED pool lighting is the cheapest upgrade on this list and the one that most changes how often a Brownsville pool actually gets used, because the water is comfortable at nine at night for eight months of the year. A color-changing LED draws a fraction of the wattage of the 300 or 500 watt incandescent it replaces, lasts many times longer, and gives you white plus a dozen colors from the same app that runs the pump.
Pool Automation & Controls
Pool automation ties the pump, heater, salt cell, valve actuators, lights, and water features into one panel with an app on top of it. The pump schedule, the spa changeover, the light color, and the waterfall then happen on a timer or a tap instead of a walk out to the equipment pad in the dark.
Pool Heaters & Heat Pumps
Pool heater installation in Brownsville is what buys back February, when the water sits at 62 degrees for six weeks and the pool goes unused. An electric heat pump moves heat out of the air rather than burning fuel to make it, and warm, humid Valley air is exactly the condition it works best in.
Variable-Speed Pumps & Filtration
Variable-speed pumps and filtration decide what a Brownsville pool costs to run, and here the pump runs close to year-round. Energy draw rises roughly with the cube of pump speed, so a variable-speed unit at 1,200 RPM for twelve hours moves the same water as a single-speed at 3,450 RPM for four and uses a fraction of the electricity doing it.
Saltwater Chlorination Systems
Saltwater chlorination does not replace chlorine, it manufactures it: a cell in the plumbing line electrolyzes dissolved salt and produces chlorine continuously as the water passes through. Salt sits around 3,200 parts per million, roughly a tenth of seawater, which is below the taste threshold and is why salt pools feel softer on skin and easier on eyes.
Pool Leak Detection & Repair
Pool leak detection in Brownsville starts by ruling out the climate, because evaporation alone takes a quarter inch a day off an unshaded pool in July. The bucket test settles it — float a bucket of pool water on the step, mark both levels, wait 24 hours, and if the pool drops faster than the bucket you have a real leak.
Pool Equipment Repair
Pool equipment repair is the call you make when something on the pad is making a noise it did not make last week, or the pool went from clear to green over a long weekend. We diagnose and repair everything on a residential or commercial equipment pad, and the truck carries the parts that fail most often so a large share of calls finish in one visit.
Weekly Pool Cleaning & Maintenance
Weekly pool cleaning and maintenance is not a luxury item in Brownsville, because the Valley never gives a pool an off-season. Water hits the mid-eighties by June and stays there, humidity keeps chlorine demand high, wind carries dust off the farmland, and algae will take a neglected pool in about four days.
Commercial Pool Construction & Service
Commercial pool construction and service in Cameron County is regulated public-health work that happens to look like a backyard amenity, and the difference becomes obvious the day an inspector walks the deck. We build, remodel, and maintain pools for hotels, RV resorts, apartment and condo communities, HOAs, municipalities, and community centers, and we take the documentation as seriously as the concrete.
Pool Safety Fences & Covers
Pool safety fences and covers are the layered protection that prevents the leading cause of accidental death among young children: a barrier around the water, an alarm on the doors leading to it, and a cover that closes the pool off entirely. None of it is expensive and none of it has to be ugly anymore.
Pool Demolition & Removal
Pool demolition and removal is the right answer more often than pool builders like to admit — when the shell is failing, the family does not swim, the insurance is a headache, or a listing agent has explained that a green 1978 diving pool is costing more in offers than removal would cost. We take pools out cleanly and leave a yard you can actually use.
What Brownsville Customers Say
They designed our pool in 3D so we knew exactly what we were getting. Crew was on time every day and the tanning ledge is my kids' favorite spot. Worth every penny.
Got three quotes for a remodel. These guys were the only ones who actually showed up on time and explained the plaster options. New pebble finish looks brand new.
Our old pump died mid-summer. They had it diagnosed and replaced in one visit, no upsell. Now on their weekly service and the water has never been clearer.
Built our pool and deck together, travertine that doesn't burn your feet. Honest about the timeline and stuck to it. Highly recommend to anyone in the Valley.
Brownsville Custom Pool Pros is an insured pool contractor with over 15 years of experience building, remodeling, and servicing swimming pools for residential and commercial properties in Brownsville, TX.
Our work covers new gunite and shotcrete pool construction, fiberglass pool installation, vinyl liner replacement, inground pool remodeling, pool resurfacing and replastering, waterline tile and coping, pool decking and hardscape, spa and hot tub installation, water features, LED pool lighting, pool automation, heaters, variable-speed pumps and filtration, saltwater chlorination, leak detection, equipment repair, and weekly pool cleaning.
We finish interiors in PebbleTec, pebble aggregate, polished quartz, and white plaster, and we set coping in travertine, cantilevered concrete, and bullnose brick.
We also build the efficient side of the equation: DOE-compliant variable-speed pumps that run at 1,200 RPM instead of 3,450, cartridge and DE filtration sized to the actual turnover rate, salt chlorine generators that end the weekly jug of liquid chlorine, and app-based automation that runs the whole pad from your phone.
Brownsville Custom Pool Pros 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. Se habla español, and the design consultation costs nothing.
About Brownsville Custom Pool Pros in Brownsville, TX
Brownsville Custom Pool Pros has spent over 15 years building and maintaining swimming pools across Brownsville and the Rio Grande Valley. We started as a small family crew doing replasters and equipment swaps out of one truck, and we grew the way pools should be built — one job at a time, with the same people showing up every morning.
Today we handle custom gunite construction, fiberglass installs, full remodels, and commercial contracts for hotels, HOAs, and apartment communities, and we still run our own crews instead of handing your backyard to a subcontractor you have never met.
Building in the Valley is its own discipline. The clay swells and shrinks with the rain, the fill water is hard enough to scale a salt cell in a season, the sun punishes coping and deck coatings from March to October, and the swim season never really ends, so equipment runs almost year-round instead of getting a winter off.
We design around all of that: bond beams set for expansive soil, aggregate interiors that shrug off hard water, travertine and cool-deck surfaces that will not cook bare feet in July, and pumps sized for real turnover rather than whatever the catalog page suggested.
From new construction and remodeling to resurfacing, decking, leak detection, equipment repair, and weekly maintenance, Brownsville Custom Pool Pros is one number for the whole pool. We are licensed, insured, and bonded, we are members of the Pool & Hot Tub Alliance, and every construction, remodel, and resurfacing project carries a written workmanship warranty. Se habla español, and the estimate is always free.
Recent Projects Across the Rio Grande Valley
Service Areas
Brownsville Custom Pool Pros serves Brownsville, TX and surrounding communities including:
Commercial Pool Construction & Service in Cameron County
We build, remodel, and maintain commercial pools for hotels, RV resorts, apartment and condo communities, HOAs, and community centers across the Rio Grande Valley. Every commercial project is documented to the Texas Department of State Health Services pool and spa rules — turnover rates, main drain covers that satisfy the Virginia Graeme Baker Act, depth markings, and handrail placement — so your amenity passes inspection and stays open through the season that matters.
- ✓Hotels, RV resorts and South Padre area properties
- ✓Apartment and condo communities
- ✓HOAs, municipal and community center pools
- ✓Built to Texas DSHS pool and spa rules
- ✓Scheduled maintenance and repair contracts
- ✓ADA-compliant lifts, handrails and zero-entry access
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does an inground pool cost in Brownsville?
Most gunite pools we build in Brownsville land between the mid-$40,000s and the mid-$70,000s. The spread comes from size, interior finish grade, how much decking you want, and whether you add a spa, tanning ledge, or water feature. Fiberglass shells usually come in lower because the shell arrives finished. We give you a firm itemized number after the free in-home design, not a per-square-foot guess over the phone.
How long does it take to build a pool in the Rio Grande Valley?
Eight to twelve weeks from excavation to fill on a typical gunite build, assuming the permit is in hand and the weather cooperates. Fiberglass installs run three to five weeks. Remodels and resurfacing are much faster — one to three weeks for a replaster, a little longer if we are also redoing tile, coping, and deck.
Is a saltwater pool worth it in South Texas?
For most Valley homeowners, yes. A salt chlorine generator makes its own chlorine from dissolved salt at roughly 3,200 ppm, about a tenth of seawater, so the water feels softer and you stop hauling jugs. The trade-off is the cell, which typically needs replacing every three to seven years, and salt is hard on untreated limestone coping and cheap deck coatings. We spec the deck material accordingly.
How often does a pool need resurfacing here?
White plaster in the Valley generally gives you eight to twelve years before it goes chalky and rough. Polished quartz stretches that to twelve to fifteen, and pebble finishes like PebbleTec often run fifteen to twenty. Hard Valley fill water and heavy sun both shorten the number, which is why we push aggregate finishes on most resurfacing jobs.
Do you service pools you did not build?
Constantly. Roughly half our service calls are on pools built by someone else, some of them thirty years old. We take over weekly maintenance, chase leaks, rebuild equipment pads, replaster, and remodel regardless of who poured the original shell.
Do you build and maintain commercial pools?
Yes. We design, build, remodel, and maintain commercial pools for hotels, RV resorts, apartment and condo communities, HOAs, and community centers across Cameron County, built and documented to the Texas Department of State Health Services pool and spa rules, including main drain covers that satisfy the Virginia Graeme Baker Act and ADA-compliant access.