Pool remodeling in Austin, TX from Blue Science: pool resurfacing, tile, coping, decking, lighting, and pool equipment upgrades planned as one project, with a written scope and budget before the pool is drained and one team from demolition to startup and completion. A pool remodel in Austin starts with an in-home consultation, a site visit, and samples looked at outdoors, so the pool design is built around your existing swimming pool, your preferences, and hard Hill Country water, cedar pollen, and 100-degree summers.
Start with what's possible
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Start with the pictures. Every surface, deck, and feature below has gone into an Austin backyard in Tarrytown, Steiner Ranch, and Circle C, and each image is shown in full so you can see the whole option rather than a corner of it.
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Pool Surface Options
In Austin, hard Hill Country water roughens plain plaster within a decade, so most owners step up to a pebble, quartz, or glass-bead surface that lasts and changes the color of the water.
Like one of these finishes for your Austin pool?
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Pool Decking Options
Replace a cracked or faded deck with a surface that suits limestone and shifting caliche and the way the family uses the yard, from barefoot afternoons to evening dinners.
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Coping, Equipment & Water Features
Coping is chosen with the deck, lighting with how the pool is used after dark, and features with how much sound and motion the yard wants; all of it happens while the pool is open.
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Ready to Transform Your Austin Backyard?
Tell us what you want the pool to look like from the kitchen window, and we will plan the finish, deck, and lighting to get there.
Plan with confidence
A Smarter Path to a Beautiful Pool Remodel
Priorities, finishes, and hidden systems, planned together. Here is how we scope an Austin remodel so the surface, the deck, and the pad are done in one project rather than three.
Austin residents have some of the most unique and lovely homes in the country. We absolutely love designing complementary pool features and settings for their backyards. In just the past few months we have enjoyed working on a pool resurfacing project in Tarrytown, a firepit & LED lighting design in Rollingwood, and a custom stone deck & BBQ pit project in Cherrywood.
Austin's oldest pools sit behind the bungalows of Tarrytown and Travis Heights, with plaster from the 1960s that has been scaled by fifty years of limestone water, while the newer pools in Steiner Ranch and Circle C are hitting the age where a builder finish gives out. A remodel here usually starts with the surface and ends up touching the deck, the tile, and the pad, because they all aged together.
Central Austin lots are small and the pools are close to the house, so the remodel decision is as much about how the pool reads from the kitchen window as how it swims. We bring finish and tile samples to the yard, not a showroom, and hold them against the house.
What Austin pools need most when they are remodeled
From the remodel crewHard Edwards Aquifer water leaves a calcium crust on tile and a rough, mottled plaster surface within a decade, so most Austin remodels replace both, and a pebble or quartz finish holds up to the water better than the plaster it replaces. On the Tarrytown pools the coping is often original stone that is worth keeping and resetting rather than replacing.
Decks under live oaks stain and heave on root growth, and old flagstone decks in Travis Heights have usually shifted enough to trip on. We look at the shell, the deck, and the plumbing under it as one job so the yard is only torn up once.
A remodel day in Austin
Old surface out, new surface in
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Protection first Decking, plants, and the equipment pad are covered before the first chip comes off. -
Prep The old plaster is chipped and the shell checked for hollow spots before anything new goes on. -
Update sent Progress photos and tomorrow's plan land in your inbox.
Scheduling a remodel in Tarrytown and Steiner Ranch
From the remodel crewAn empty pool is the only time the lights, returns, and skimmer throat are reachable, so on a fifty-year-old central Austin pool we pressure test the old lines before the new finish goes on and fold LED lighting or a variable-speed pump into the same scope when they are due. On a Steiner Ranch pool the plumbing is usually fine and the job is the surface and the tile.
A new finish in Austin water needs its first weeks managed closely, because the calcium that scaled the old plaster starts on the new one immediately. We run that startup ourselves and adjust the weekly service afterward.
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What a remodel covers
Your Greater Austin team
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The crew that remodels your pool and the technician who services it afterward are the same Greater Austin team.
The team behind Austin remodels
The Greater Austin team remodeling Austin pools
Our Greater Austin office in Austin plans and schedules the remodels in Austin. The consultation, site visit, and samples happen at your pool, where the remodel is designed around hard Hill Country water, cedar pollen, and 100-degree summers; the office handles the permits and the timeline, and one crew carries the project from drain-down to completion, keeping you informed and explaining any delays before they happen.
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Austin homeowners love the scientific approach we bring to pool remodeling, hard Hill Country water, cedar pollen, and 100-degree summers and all. Check out our reviews here.
More pool services in Austin
Blue Science also provides weekly pool cleaning in Austin, custom pool building in Austin, pool leak detection in Austin, and pool repair in Austin from the same Greater Austin team, and every Greater Austin city with pool remodeling is listed on the Pool Remodeling directory for Greater Austin.
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Questions Austin Pool Owners Ask
How long is the pool out of service for a replaster?
About two weeks from drain to swim: a day or two to drain and chip, a day for the new surface, then the fill and a month of daily brushing while it cures. We plan it around your calendar because you are out of the water for the whole stretch.
Answered by a Blue Science pool builder, Greater AustinCan you remodel an existing pool?
Yes, and most Austin pools are better candidates for a remodel than for a new pool. The shell is usually sound; what wears out is the surface, the tile and coping, the deck, the lights, and the equipment. A remodel drains the pool, repairs the shell and plumbing where needed, replaces the interior finish, tile, and coping, and can add lighting, water features, a sun shelf, or a new deck before fill-up and startup. Our Austin remodels run through evaluation, scope and selections, demolition, repairs, tile and coping, the new finish, then fill-up and a startup we handle ourselves.
Can a pool remodel be financed?
Contact us to discuss financing options for your Austin remodel. Financing is worked out alongside the written scope, so you know what the project includes before you decide how to pay for it.
Do you upgrade equipment during a remodel?
When it earns its place. With the water out, lights, fittings, drains, and plumbing connections are reachable in a way they will not be again for years, so LED lighting, a variable-speed pump, or automation get folded into the same Austin project when they solve a known problem or an energy hog. Equipment is evaluated on condition and compatibility, not replaced by default.
How long does a pool remodel take?
It depends on the scope. A resurfacing alone keeps an Austin pool out of service for a couple of weeks including cure and startup; add tile and coping and it runs longer; a full remodel with new decking and equipment is a project of several weeks. The written scope carries the schedule, and the sequence is planned so the pool is drained once and refilled once.
Seen our truck on your street?
That is because we also service West Lake Hills, Bee Cave, Round Rock, Lago Vista, and Georgetown
Know someone there who could use the same pool remodeling? Our Austin team already covers those streets, so a recommendation from you lands with the people who look after your pool.
Pool days in Austin, TX
Blue Science has a long-standing fondness for Austin and for the customers who make caring for pools here so rewarding. The Live Music Capital of the World celebrates Austin's creative spirit everywhere from Lady Bird Lake to the next great encore. A pool adds the best kind of home-field advantage: cool water, familiar chairs, and no hunt for parking. Blue Science supports Austin homes with routine pool service, balanced water, filter maintenance, repairs, leak detection, renovations, and construction planning. Regular observation gives our team a baseline, making unusual water or equipment behavior easier to recognize quickly.
