Rio Hondo Swimming Pool Services — Licensed & Insured

Call (844) 511-2320 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Rio Hondo, usually within a couple of days. You get a written, itemized free estimate with materials and scope spelled out — no verbal ballpark, no pressure, and no charge whether you hire us or not. Se habla español.

We also serve Palm Valley, TX and the rest of the Rio Grande Valley. Everything starts at the Brownsville Custom Pool Pros homepage.

Brownsville Custom Pool Pros covers the same range of work in Rio Hondo that we do in Brownsville — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:

• 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.

See the full list of Brownsville services, or call (844) 511-2320.

Rio Hondo sits in Cameron County with a population of roughly 2,020, close enough to Brownsville that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include State Highway 106, the Arroyo Colorado, the Rio Hondo swing bridge, and Adolph Thomae Jr. County Park.

Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Rio Hondo properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Cameron County, and a pool contractor who works the area weekly already knows what fails locally and what holds up. That is the difference between a bid and an accurate bid.