Every Pool Service We Offer in Brownsville, TX
One team for every pool job in Brownsville — from new pool construction to pool demolition & removal.
Brownsville Custom Pool Pros handles residential and commercial pool projects across Brownsville and the Rio Grande Valley. From new pool construction to pool demolition & removal, every service below is handled by our own team and backed by our workmanship guarantee.
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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 each of our services covers in Brownsville
Open any service to see exactly what is included before you call.
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. Design starts in the yard, not in a brochure.
- inground pool installation
- gunite pool construction
- shotcrete pool shells
- custom pool design
- 3D pool design
- freeform and geometric pools
- lap pools and plunge pools
- infinity edge and perimeter overflow pools
- tanning ledges and Baja shelves
- spa spillover combinations
- pool and spa packages
- new construction permits and engineering
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. The gel coat surface is non-porous, so it holds less algae than plaster and takes noticeably less chlorine to keep clear through a Valley August.
- fiberglass pool shells
- fiberglass pool installation cost
- small backyard fiberglass pools
- fiberglass plunge pools
- fiberglass pool with tanning ledge
- gel coat colors and finishes
- fiberglass pool and spa combos
- fiberglass pool decking
- gunite vs fiberglass pool
- fast pool installation
- fiberglass shell delivery and crane set
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. We replace liners in both inground and above-ground pools, and we do it without the drama.
- vinyl liner replacement
- pool liner installation
- inground vinyl liner pools
- 20 mil and 27 mil liners
- steel and polymer wall panels
- liner patterns and borders
- vinyl over steps
- liner track and coping replacement
- wrinkled and slipping pool liner
- vinyl liner pool cost
- above ground pool liners
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.
Start with the shell inspection, because the honest answer sometimes is that a remodel is not the right call.
- pool renovation
- pool modernization
- adding a spa to an existing pool
- tanning ledge addition
- pool deck replacement
- waterline tile and coping upgrade
- converting to saltwater
- pool light upgrade to LED
- equipment pad rebuild
- pool depth change and shallowing
- diving board removal
- pool remodel cost
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. The job starts with a full chip-out or a bond-coat prep, depending on how many layers are already down there.
- pool replastering
- pebble pool finish
- PebbleTec and pebble aggregate
- polished quartz pool finish
- white plaster resurfacing
- pool interior refinishing
- acid wash vs resurfacing
- plaster staining and etching
- rough pool surface repair
- pool resurfacing cost
- chip-out and bond coat
- plaster start-up and cure
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.
Valley fill water is hard, so calcium builds a white crust that eventually will not come off with a pumice stone — at that point you are replacing tile, not cleaning it.
- waterline tile replacement
- glass mosaic pool tile
- porcelain and ceramic pool tile
- travertine coping
- cantilevered concrete coping
- bullnose brick coping
- raised bond beam tile
- calcium scale removal from tile
- spa spillover tile
- step markers and depth tile
- pool tile repair
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. Travertine answers the first question better than anything else we install — the stone is naturally porous and stays measurably cooler than poured concrete or dark pavers.
- pool deck resurfacing
- travertine pool deck
- paver pool deck
- stamped concrete pool deck
- cool deck coating
- pool deck crack repair
- outdoor kitchens and bars
- fire pits and seating walls
- pergolas and shade structures
- deck drainage and grading
- pool deck cost per square foot
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.
We build gunite spas as part of new construction and retrofit them into existing pools, usually as a raised spa with a spillover so the overflow sheets back into the pool and doubles as a water feature.
- gunite spa construction
- raised spa with spillover
- spa and pool combination
- swim spa installation
- portable hot tub pad and wiring
- spa jets and blowers
- spa heater installation
- spa tile and coping
- spa resurfacing
- hot tub electrical hookup
- spa automation and remote control
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.
Sheer descents are the clean modern choice — a stainless or acrylic weir set into a raised wall that drops a flat ribbon of water into the pool, lit from behind with color-changing LED.
- sheer descent waterfalls
- rock waterfall construction
- bubblers and deck jets
- grotto and slide features
- laminar jets with LED
- scupper and spillway features
- raised wall water features
- pool fountain repair
- water feature pump sizing
- spa spillover feature
- negative edge and perimeter overflow
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.
We replace lights inside existing wet niches, which is usually a straightforward swap, and we install nicheless LED fixtures on remodels where the old niche is corroded or the conduit run has failed.
- LED pool light replacement
- color-changing pool lights
- fiber optic to LED conversion
- 12-volt pool lighting
- nicheless LED lights
- spa light installation
- landscape and deck lighting
- pool light not working
- GFCI and bonding for pool lights
- light niche and conduit repair
- pool lighting control and automation
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. We install and program full systems and we upgrade the old mechanical timer setups that still run most pools in Brownsville.
- pool automation installation
- smart pool controls
- app-based pool control
- automated valve actuators
- chemical automation and ORP control
- automatic pH dosing
- pool control panel upgrade
- spa and pool changeover automation
- wireless pool remote
- automation for lights and water features
- pool timer replacement
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. Valley air is exactly what a heat pump wants.
- pool heater installation
- natural gas pool heater
- propane pool heater
- electric heat pump pool heater
- spa heater replacement
- pool heater repair
- heater sizing and BTU calculation
- solar pool heating
- pool heater not firing
- heat pump vs gas heater
- commercial pool heating
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. It is also far quieter, which matters when the pad sits under a bedroom window.
- variable-speed pool pump installation
- energy efficient pool pump
- pool pump replacement
- cartridge filter installation
- DE filter and grid replacement
- sand filter and media change
- pool filter cleaning
- turnover rate and flow calculation
- pool plumbing upgrade
- equipment pad rebuild
- pump motor repair
- pool pump noise and cavitation
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.
For year-round Valley swimming, where a chlorine pool can burn through a startling amount of liquid chlorine between May and September, the convenience is substantial.
- salt water chlorinator installation
- chlorine to saltwater conversion
- salt cell replacement
- salt chlorine generator repair
- salt level and cell cleaning
- saltwater pool maintenance
- low salt and no flow errors
- salt systems for spas
- commercial salt chlorination
- saltwater vs chlorine pool
- corrosion protection for salt pools
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.
We isolate the plumbing and pressure-test each line separately — skimmer, returns, main drain, cleaner line, spa lines — and listen with acoustic equipment to locate a break under the deck to within a few inches rather than trenching the whole yard.
- swimming pool leak detection
- underground plumbing leak repair
- pressure testing pool lines
- dye testing pool cracks
- skimmer crack repair
- main drain leak
- light niche conduit leak
- structural crack repair
- pool losing water fast
- bucket test for pool leaks
- epoxy and hydraulic cement repairs
- spa and water feature leaks
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. Pumps are the usual suspect.
- pool pump repair
- pool motor replacement
- pump seal and impeller repair
- filter repair and o-ring replacement
- salt cell diagnostics
- heater troubleshooting
- valve actuator replacement
- control board repair
- pool timer repair
- emergency pool repair
- equipment pad diagnostics
- green pool recovery
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. Our weekly visit is a real visit, not a drive-by.
- weekly pool service
- pool cleaning service near me
- chemical balancing service
- filter cleaning service
- algae treatment and prevention
- pool vacuuming and brushing
- commercial pool maintenance
- vacation rental pool service
- one-time pool cleanup
- green pool cleanup
- pool start-up service
- monthly pool maintenance plans
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.
Texas rules govern the things nobody thinks about until they are cited: turnover rate and the pump and filter sizing that delivers it, main drain covers certified to the Virginia Graeme Baker Act and replaced before their listed expiration, dual drains or an approved alternative to eliminate entrapment risk, depth markings and no-diving markers in the right places and the right sizes, handrails and ladders at correct spacing, self-closing and self-latching gates, and daily chemical logs kept in a form that survives an inspection.
- commercial pool construction
- hotel pool builder
- apartment complex pool service
- HOA and community pool maintenance
- commercial pool remodeling
- commercial pool resurfacing
- commercial pool repair
- Texas DSHS pool code compliance
- VGB drain cover replacement
- ADA pool lifts and access
- commercial pool inspection prep
- splash pad construction
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. Removable mesh safety fencing is the most common residential choice.
- removable pool safety fence
- mesh pool fence installation
- self-closing pool gate
- automatic pool safety cover
- manual safety cover installation
- solar pool covers
- pool alarms and door alarms
- child safety pool barrier
- pool barrier code requirements
- safety cover repair and replacement
- cover track and anchor repair
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. There are two approaches and they are not equivalent.
- swimming pool removal
- partial pool fill-in
- full pool demolition
- pool removal cost
- abandoned pool fill
- backyard restoration after pool removal
- pool demolition permit
- engineered fill and compaction
- spa removal
- concrete pool breakup and haul-off
- pool removal before a home sale
What Brownsville property owners ask us
Which pool services does Brownsville Custom Pool Pros handle?
Everything listed on this page, residential and commercial, across Brownsville and the Rio Grande Valley. Work is done by our own crews rather than handed to whoever is cheapest that week, which is the only way the workmanship warranty means anything.
Can I combine more than one service in a single job?
Yes, and it is usually cheaper. Bundling pool work into one mobilization saves setup, disposal and travel, and it means one crew, one schedule and one written free estimate instead of three contractors blaming each other.
Do you give free estimates for every service?
Every one. We come out, measure, look at the real condition of the work area, and put an itemized free estimate in writing with materials and scope spelled out. No charge, no deposit, and no obligation to book.
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.
Service Areas
Brownsville Custom Pool Pros serves Brownsville, TX and surrounding communities including: