Pool remodeling in San Antonio, 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. In San Antonio a pool remodel begins with an in-home consultation, a site visit, and samples looked at outdoors next to the house, so the pool design fits your existing swimming pool, your preferences, and the wear that hard water, cedar and oak pollen, and 90-degree water leave on a surface.
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These are the finishes, decks, and features San Antonio owners choose most, shown in full so nothing is cropped. Edwards Aquifer water decides more of the surface choice here than color does, and we say which finishes hold up.
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Pool Surface Options
In San Antonio, Edwards Aquifer 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.
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Pool Decking Options
Replace a cracked or faded deck with a surface that suits caliche and limestone that shift with the seasons 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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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.
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A Smarter Path to a Beautiful Pool Remodel
What to decide before the water comes out of a San Antonio pool, from the finish that will hold up to Edwards Aquifer water to the upgrades that only make sense while the lights and returns are reachable.
San Antonio pool owners have great pride in their state and we are proud to bring them the best in pool features and designs for their backyard. Whether that is in classical Texas style or modern European style, we enjoy them both. In the past couple of months we have enjoyed working on a pool replastering remodel in Stone Oak, a waterslide & LED lighting installation in Shavano Park, and a stone decking & firepit project in Windcrest.
San Antonio's oldest pools sit behind the houses of Alamo Heights and Terrell Hills, with plaster that has been scaled by Edwards Aquifer water since the 1960s, while the pools in Stone Oak and The Dominion are hitting the age where a 1990s or 2000s finish gives out. Either way the water is the same, and it is hard enough to turn any surface rough in about a decade.
Alamo Heights lots are small and the pools are close to the house, so a remodel is judged from the back porch as much as from the water. We hold finish and tile samples against the stone and stucco of the house in the yard, not in a showroom.
What San Antonio pools need most when they are remodeled
From the remodel crewAquifer water leaves a calcium crust on tile and roughens plaster faster than almost anywhere in Texas, so most San Antonio remodels replace both, and a pebble or quartz finish stands up to the water better than the plaster it replaces. On the older Alamo Heights pools the coping is often original limestone worth resetting rather than replacing.
Decks under live oaks stain and lift on roots, and the older flagstone decks 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 opened once.
A remodel day in San Antonio
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.
Remodel scheduling for Alamo Heights and The Dominion
From the remodel crewWith the pool empty, the lights, returns, and skimmer are reachable, so on a sixty-year-old central pool we pressure test the old lines before the new finish goes on and fold LED lighting or a variable-speed pump into the scope when they are due. On a Stone Oak pool the plumbing is usually sound and the job is the surface and the tile.
A new finish in aquifer 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 San Antonio team
7 cities, one phone number, the same faces
The crew that remodels your pool and the technician who services it afterward are the same Greater San Antonio team.
The team behind San Antonio remodels
The Greater San Antonio team remodeling San Antonio pools
Remodels in San Antonio are planned and scheduled from our San Antonio office, which runs the same work across 7 cities in Greater San Antonio. The consultation, the site visit, and the samples happen at your pool, where the remodel is designed; the office handles the permits and the timeline, and the same crew carries the project from drain-down to completion, keeping you informed and explaining any delays before they happen.
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Against hard water, cedar and oak pollen, and 90-degree water, our scientific approach to pool remodeling is what San Antonio customers love about us. Read our reviews here.
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Blue Science also provides weekly pool cleaning in San Antonio, custom pool building in San Antonio, pool leak detection in San Antonio, and pool repair in San Antonio from the same Greater San Antonio team, and every Greater San Antonio city with pool remodeling is listed on the Pool Remodeling directory for Greater San Antonio.
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Questions San Antonio 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 San AntonioCan you remodel an existing pool?
Yes, and it is the answer to most of the complaints San Antonio owners bring us: rough or stained plaster, tile falling off the waterline, a cracked or faded deck, lights that no longer work, and equipment that costs too much to run. Each of those is a remodel line item rather than a reason to start over. We evaluate the shell first, then scope the finish, tile, coping, deck, lighting, and equipment as one project so the pool is out of service once, not four times. Every San Antonio remodel is written up as one project, so you know what is included before the water comes out.
How long does a pool remodel take?
It depends on the scope. A resurfacing alone keeps a San Antonio 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.
How do I know my pool needs resurfacing?
Rough plaster that scuffs feet, stains that no longer brush out, hollow spots or blisters where the finish has let go of the shell, exposed aggregate, and calcium nodules are the signs. Most finishes in San Antonio last a decade or more, but hard water, cedar and oak pollen, and 90-degree water shorten that. If the water is hard to keep balanced no matter what goes in, the surface is often the reason.
Should I remodel my pool or build a new one?
If the shell is sound, remodel. Almost everything an owner dislikes about an older San Antonio pool is on the surface or the pad: the finish, the tile, the deck, the lights, the equipment. A new pool makes sense when you want the pool somewhere else or in a different shape, or when the shell has structural damage. Our evaluation looks at the shell first and tells you which one you have.
Seen our truck on your street?
That is because we also service Boerne and New Braunfels
The route that covers San Antonio runs through these towns on the same days, with the same technicians. If you split time between houses, or your parents' pool is a few exits away, one phone number covers all of them.
Pool days in San Antonio, TX
After many seasons in San Antonio, Blue Science remains grateful to the customers who welcome our technicians into their backyards. The San Antonio River Walk, neighborhood taquerias, and centuries of history give the city endless ways to spend a day. The joy is wonderfully simple: step outside, cool down, float awhile, and let the day become less complicated. Homeowners rely on Blue Science for pool cleaning, chemistry, filtration, repair, leak detection, renovation, and construction expertise.
